AfD on climate and energy

The AfD wants to abolish the EU's climate directives because, in its view, they have sharply raised costs in many areas of life. A state government led by the AfD would work against requirements such as mandatory building renovations and diesel driving bans.

The EU makes rules to protect the climate. The AfD wants to abolish these rules. It says the rules make life more expensive. The AfD believes the climate cannot be protected.

The program criticizes Germany for implementing EU directives more strictly than other countries, for example with mandatory home renovations. As an earlier example it cites nitrogen limits, measuring stations and the resulting diesel bans in city centers. More generally, the AfD wants to review EU rules it considers harmful early on, organize resistance to them, and limit what it sees as excessive EU regulation.

The AfD wants to scrap the national carbon price without replacement, cut the electricity tax to the EU minimum and lift the ban on combustion engines. EU programs such as the Green Deal and Fit for 55 are to be stopped.

The AfD wants to end the German carbon price. The tax on electricity should go down. Cars with combustion engines should stay allowed. The AfD wants to stop EU climate plans like the Green Deal.

Brandenburg is to criticize and fight decisions from Brussels and Berlin that the AfD considers wrong. Neither the state nor the federal government should pass rules that go beyond EU law. The platform rejects the Green Deal partly on grounds of food security. The AfD wants to end municipal heat planning and the obligation to buy electric buses.

The AfD wants to drop the goal of climate neutrality at the national and regional level. Instead, Brandenburg should develop strategies for adapting to climate change. The platform argues that the climate cannot be protected, but that society can be made more resilient.

The AfD wants to drop the goal of climate neutrality. Climate neutrality means a country adds no more greenhouse gases on balance. The AfD says the climate cannot be protected. Brandenburg should instead prepare for changes in the climate.

The platform calls for a change of strategy in environmental policy and a more fact-based debate about climate change. It explicitly leaves open whether and how far these changes are caused by human CO2 emissions. The AfD regards the energy transition as a failure. Adaptation strategies are to focus on farming, forestry and water management and involve several ministries.

The AfD rejects further wind and solar installations in the open countryside. Solar panels would in future be allowed only on land that is already sealed, such as parking lots or roofs. Instead of the energy transition, the party wants an energy mix that includes fossil sources such as gas-fired power plants.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines or solar plants in the open countryside. Solar panels should only go on roofs or parking lots. The AfD also wants to keep using gas for energy. It says wind turbines harm the landscape and animals.

According to the platform, wind turbines must never be built in forests, in nature or landscape reserves, or near settlements. The AfD cites harm to birds and insects, damage to the landscape and drying out of the soil. It says solar plants also cause local warming and dryness. Cropland and grassland should remain reserved for farming. The platform favors modern gas-fired plants, municipal biogas plants, modern wood heating and solar panels for local self-supply.

The AfD wants to repeal the Gebäudeenergiegesetz (building energy act) without replacement and fend off planned stricter EU rules on building renovation. It considers the law unfair and unconstitutional and points to high costs for owners and renters.

The building energy act sets rules for how homes are heated. The AfD wants to get rid of this law completely. It says the law costs homeowners and renters a lot of money. It also wants to stop stricter EU rules.

The platform calls the law a "heating ban" and speaks of costs in the five- to six-figure range for homeowners because major renovations would sometimes be needed. It says these costs indirectly hit renters as well. Tighter rules planned at the EU level are to be prevented. The AfD intends to push for repeal at every level of government.

The AfD wants to abolish the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the Building Energy Act (GEG) along with their follow-up rules. It cites high electricity and housing costs and wants citizens to choose their own heating.

The AfD wants to scrap two laws. One supports power from wind and sun. The other sets rules for heating. The AfD says both laws make energy and housing too costly. Everyone should choose their own heating.

Owners of existing plants are to be compensated in line with the law. Municipal heat planning would be dropped, and heating with wood should stay possible without limits. The costs of grid stabilization measures should fall and be borne by the utilities until the EEG is gone. The AfD rejects subsidies for producing, storing and distributing energy, as well as funding for electric mobility such as e-buses for municipal operators.

The AfD wants to halt the expansion of wind power and photovoltaics entirely and ban wind turbines in forests. Plants and power lines should only be possible with residents' approval through a local referendum.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines and solar parks. It wants to ban wind turbines in forests. Local people should vote on such projects. The AfD says this protects nature.

No further plants are to be built in forests or protected areas. The party rejects the target of setting aside 2.2 percent of the state's land for wind power, as well as offset areas for Berlin. Operators should fully dismantle turbines after use, including the foundation, and municipalities should not charge fees on private solar generation. The AfD also calls for an institute on the consequences of climate policy to review past policy scientifically.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition in order to bring electricity prices down. In its view, new wind and solar plants and grid expansion drive prices up and push industry to leave.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition. That is the switch to power from wind and sun. The AfD says this makes power more and more costly. Power should be cheaper again for people and firms.

The platform points to sharply higher grid fees, which together with taxes exceed the cost of generating power. It says the subsidies go to those who profit and are paid by consumers through the power price, which the party calls redistribution from the bottom to the top. Companies are said to cut output or move abroad because of prices. State policy should therefore push for lower energy prices.

The AfD wants Germany to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and leave climate protection organizations. In its view the climate cannot be protected, so it favors adaptation over climate protection.

The AfD wants to quit the Paris climate deal. Germany should leave climate groups. The AfD says nobody can protect the climate. People can only adapt to it.

Germany is to leave public and private organizations for climate protection and climate research and stop supporting them, with Brandenburg taking the lead. The platform criticizes that the agreement and the Climate Action Plan 2050 commit Germany to deep interventions in the economy and society. In the party's view, lower emissions in Brandenburg, Germany or the EU would have no measurable effect on the global climate. It points to natural warm and cold periods before industrialization.

The AfD wants to keep lignite mining in Lusatia and coal-fired power generation and to continue running gas and coal plants. It also backs nuclear energy, wants to set up research on it and to examine small nuclear plants in Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to keep mining lignite and making power from it. Lignite is brown coal. Gas plants should keep running too. The AfD says this secures jobs and power. It also wants research on nuclear power. It wants to look at small nuclear plants in Brandenburg.

The party cites thousands of jobs in southern Brandenburg, less dependence on imports and a secure supply that weather-dependent plants cannot offer in its view. Conventional plants are to cover base load as long as no affordable replacement exists; the platform considers storage and hydrogen unsuitable for this. The state's Energy Strategy 2030 is to end and be rewritten on a conventional basis. Renewable providers should be required to deliver power around the clock. The AfD wants to support geothermal energy and biomass regionally where it makes sense.