BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – In the transport sector, targets for CO2 emissions were missed last year – the Federal Ministry of Transport considers the following legal requirements to have been met. A spokesman for Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) said on Thursday in Berlin that the federal cabinet set the course for a reform of the climate protection law in June and at the same time presented a draft for a climate protection program. It includes far-reaching measures for the transport sector. It is the “common opinion” of the Federal Government that the Ministry of Transport has thus fulfilled its obligation to submit additional climate protection measures.
In 2022, the legally prescribed amount of CO2 emissions was exceeded in the transport and building sectors. According to the applicable climate protection law, the responsible departments must submit immediate programs for improvements. The deadline for this is July 17th.
The planned reform of the climate protection law stipulates that compliance with climate targets should no longer be checked retrospectively according to various sectors such as transport, industry or agriculture – but should be forward-looking, multi-year and cross-sectoral. In the future, the federal government as a whole should decide in which sector and with which measures the permissible total amount of CO2 is to be achieved by 2030 – but only if the target is missed two years in a row.
A package of measures decided at the same time by the cabinet is intended to help reduce a “climate gap” in reducing greenhouse gases by 2030.
The spokesman for Wissing referred to a planned CO2 surcharge on the truck toll, massive investments in rail, the expansion of cycle paths, the Germany ticket in local and regional transport and the development of the charging station infrastructure./hoe/DP/ngu