CDU on the environment and animal welfare

In species protection, the CDU wants to focus on preserving the species as a whole rather than the individual animal. Populations of certain species that have grown strongly may be regulated, including by killing, and invasive species are to be fought early.

The CDU wants to protect animal species as a whole. Some animals are now very numerous. These include cormorants, beavers and rooks. It should be allowed to kill some of them. The CDU wants to fight foreign species like raccoons early.

The platform names the cormorant, the beaver and the rook as species whose numbers call for management that includes so-called lethal removal. For cormorants this is to apply in protected areas and on Lake Constance as well. For conflicts with wolves, practical solutions for farms are to be developed. The CDU wants to act early against introduced species such as the Egyptian goose, raccoon, Asian hornet and round goby.

The CDU wants to cut raw material use, avoid waste and keep materials in circulation. It relies on incentives and new technologies rather than additional rules and wants to secure waste disposal in the state for the long term.

The CDU wants to use fewer raw materials. Things should be reused more often. There should be incentives for this, not new strict rules. Waste that cannot be recycled should produce power and heat. Dug-up soil from building sites should be easier to reuse.

Support goes to technologies and business models that use materials more sparingly, make reuse easier and use CO2 as a raw material. The state waste management plan is to cover commercial waste too, so it can be disposed of nearby. Municipal waste that cannot be recycled is to be used for energy, and state-owned landfills secure disposal of the remainder. Uncontaminated excavated soil is to be reused, supported by regional interim storage sites and digital soil exchanges. At the federal level, the CDU wants simpler rules in the soil protection and substitute building materials ordinances.

The CDU calls for a statewide strategy for drinking and service water supply, with municipalities remaining in charge. Public water supply is to get priority in water law, and water shortages are to be prevented through forward-looking management.

The CDU wants a water plan for the whole state. Cities and towns should stay in charge of drinking water. Every town should have a second water source for emergencies. Public water supply should get priority in the law. The state should act early against water shortages.

The goal is for every municipality to be able to cover its entire demand from a second source in a crisis. Permanent permits are to give suppliers more planning and investment security. Against water shortages, the CDU wants to promote decentralized water retention, efficient irrigation in farming and the use of service water. New water protection areas are to be designated within one year at most. Water management will be digitized and existing data sets merged.