A broad alliance of forward-looking business associations has published joint demands for the Bundestag elections and expects a much more ambitious climate protection policy from the next federal government.
"Climate protection is long-term economics," write the 24 signatory organizations in their demands paper, addressed to the next federal government. "The world is burning and melting. The economy needs stable framework conditions - including for the climate. Because the climate crisis is endangering our business location - the soil, forests and water as well as the health and performance of our employees. To protect the climate, we need an economy that provides climate protection technologies and produces all other products and services along the entire value chain in a climate-neutral way," says David Wortmann, co-initiator of Entrepreneurs For Future and board member of Leaders for Climate Action.
The signatory organizations represent a diverse alliance of industries: From food and agriculture to the bicycle industry and e-mobility sector to companies in the digital economy and traditional sectors such as mechanical engineering or textile production. Entrepreneurs For Future and Leaders for Climate Action alone represent over 6,000 companies with more than 500,000 jobs and a turnover of 50 billion euros.
In the paper, the 24 associations commit to the Paris Climate Agreement and advocate limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.
The call for a more ambitious climate policy is flanked by ten points in the paper, from which concrete recommendations for action emerge. Some selected points are
- CO2 pricing with a steering effect
- Climate check for all legislative and investment projects
- Abolition of climate-damaging subsidies
- Faster phase-out of coal by 2030
- Energy transition booster
Dr. Katharina Reuter, co-initiator of Entrepreneurs For Future and Managing Director of the Bundesverband Nachhaltige Wirtschaft e.V.: "With the ten points, we are showing very specifically what climate policy the future-oriented economy expects from the coming federal government. Politicians must now do their homework."
