Green Party wants to include climate protection in German constitution

The German Green Party wants to write climate protection into the country’s constitution, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. At a Green campaign event in the central German federal state of Hesse, where state elections will take place on 28 October, the party’s parliamentary group leader, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, said “climate protection must no longer be contingent on the interests of one particular federal government,” adding that “a brake on carbon emissions in the constitution would always give precedence to a ‘clean solution’.” The Green’s top candidate in Hesse, Priska Hinz, likened the carbon brake to the “debt brake,” in the state’s constitution, ensuring that “future generations don’t have to pay the price for our lifestyle.”

See the CLEW factsheet on the climate and energy policy positions of Germany’s parties 2017 for background.