Posted on 08/04/2021 6:44:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany’s Green party said Tuesday that it would seek to introduce a new climate protection ministry with the power to veto government policies if it becomes part of the next coalition following September’s general elections.
The proposed new ministry would be able to veto proposals of any nature from other ministries which were “incompatible” with the aims of the Paris climate accord of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, said Annalena Baerbock, the party’s candidate running for Angela Merkel’s post.
“This is about finally taking on the huge, century-defining task of becoming climate neutral,” said Baerbock as she presented the Greens’ climate protection programme at an event in a nature reserve in Biesenthal, just outside Berlin.
“The climate crisis is not an abstract idea; it is happening right here among us,” she added, pointing to recent deadly floods which claimed nearly 200 lives in western Germany.
If they were voted into government, the ecologists said they would set up a climate task force to speed up policy-making in the first 100 days of the new coalition, to be overseen by the new climate ministry.
The ministry would also be able to shoot down suggestions from other ministries if they were “incompatible with Paris”, said Baerbock. …
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Really bad idea to have a climate protection ministry with veto power but what the hell it’s Germany ,LOL
on a par with the covid health mafia?
1.5 celsius below what?
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