SPD deputy parliamentary group leader Matthias Miersch expressed concern about the introduction of climate money as agreed in the coalition agreement. “The coalition agreement applies. However, the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court severely restricted the financial room for maneuver for well-known reasons,” Miersch told the Germany editorial network. The original plan was to finance climate money from revenues from CO₂ pricing. “This revenue must now also replace missing funds for financing programs and other measures.”
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The traffic light coalition planned climate money to offset the rising costs of climate protection for citizens.
Miersch said it would be wrong to allow the price of CO₂ to rise significantly above previous plans “just to be able to finance climate money.” “Climate money cannot offset cost increases in the areas of mobility and heating associated with excessively high CO₂ prices for broad sections of the population.”
In resolving their weeks-long budget dispute, the traffic light government agreed that the price of CO₂ should rise more sharply on January 1 than previously predicted: from 30 euros per ton of carbon dioxide emissions to 45 euros, in instead of just 40. This makes energy and energy production more expensive. Production of many goods.
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Economist Veronika Grimm had already called on the traffic light coalition to stick to the introduction of climate money: “That would be a very important measure to create acceptance for climate protection”, said the member of the Advisory Council for the assessment of the global economic situation . development.
SPD deputy parliamentary group leader Matthias Miersch expressed concern about the introduction of climate money as agreed in the coalition agreement. “The coalition agreement applies. However, the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court severely restricted the financial room for maneuver for well-known reasons,” Miersch told the Germany editorial network. The original plan was to finance climate money from revenues from CO₂ pricing. “This revenue must now also replace missing funds for financing programs and other measures.”