CDU on the environment and animal welfare

The CDU wants to make parks and green spaces more usable, describing them as often uninviting. The Wallanlagen park is to become an "experience world" with food and drink on offer.

The CDU wants to make Bremen's parks nicer. There should be more benches, lights, and play equipment. Drinking fountains are also planned. People should be able to buy food and drinks in the Wallanlagen park.

The plans include additional seating, barbecue spots, new lighting, play and fitness equipment, and security plans. Drinking fountains are to be built mainly along popular running routes. In the Wallanlagen, the CDU wants to lift the ban on selling food and drink and reorganize bicycle traffic. The city's sanitation service, police, and public order service are to ensure cleanliness and safety.

The CDU wants to bring the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Garden Show) to Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is meant to show how cities can adapt to climate change and what individuals can contribute.

The CDU wants to bring the Federal Garden Show to Bremen. This is a large exhibition of gardens and parks. It should show how cities deal with climate change. The CDU wants to use existing parks for it.

The platform notes that unsealed surfaces, trees, and parks help in dealing with the effects of climate change. Existing sites such as the Bürgerpark, Stadtwald, Wallanlagen, Knoops Park, and Rhododendronpark, along with initiatives and private gardens, are to be part of the concept. The CDU describes the show as a showcase of ideas that should be inclusive, integrative, sustainable, and diverse.

The CDU wants to expand dike protection and raise dikes where needed to protect Bremen and Bremerhaven from future extreme floods. The platform sees this as part of adapting to climate change.

Dikes protect the cities from floods. The CDU wants to protect the dikes better. Where needed, they should be made higher. Animals such as nutria should not damage the dikes either.

The platform treats the upkeep and preservation of dikes as indispensable, also because of their value for recreation, the landscape and as habitat. For the CDU, dike protection also includes fending off invasive species such as nutria. This is to be done together with dike associations, farmers and hunters.

The CDU wants to maintain and reforest parks, unseal suitable paved areas and add more greenery to roofs and facades. In the platform's view, this is to improve the urban climate, cool buildings and promote biodiversity.

The CDU wants more green in the city. Parks should get more trees. Roofs and house walls should carry plants. Gravel gardens should become green again.

Replacement plantings for felled trees are in the future also to offset the amount of CO2 the old tree had stored. Tasks such as roadside greenery, pruning and street cleaning are to move from the Umweltbetrieb Bremen (municipal parks service) to the city's sanitation service. Tree sponsorships are to become more attractive, and free advice on tree care on private land is to be offered. Gravel gardens are to be greened and their spread slowed; a subsidy program could support plantings. The CDU also wants Bremen to host the Bundesgartenschau (national garden show).

The CDU wants to push back invasive animal and plant species that threaten native ones. The number of city pigeons is to be controlled through pigeon lofts, and rat infestations reduced through cleaner streets.

Some foreign animals and plants push out native species. The CDU wants to act against that. There should be pigeon hotels for pigeons. There, the eggs are swapped for plaster eggs. A clean city should help against rats.

The CDU wants to tackle invasive species together with farmers, dike associations and hunting groups, including beyond the region. In pigeon hotels, eggs are to be replaced with plaster eggs so that the population stops growing. The platform sums this up under the goal of treating animal welfare and city cleanliness as one issue.

The CDU wants to cut waste volumes and extend the useful life of consumer goods in order to save CO2. To that end, resource centers offering repair services are to be set up, and technologies for closed raw-material cycles are to be supported.

The CDU wants less trash. Things like devices and clothes should last longer. There should be centers where people can get things repaired. This saves money and helps the climate.

The plans include advice services on waste and support for repair cafés, packaging-free stores, and second-hand markets. Resource centers in Bremen and Bremerhaven, modeled on Vienna and Oldenburg, would offer repairs, courses, and the buying, selling, and renting of devices. Do-it-yourself bike repair stations with a pump and tools would be placed along premium bike routes and at central locations. Together with business, research, and civil society, the CDU wants to develop measures based on the cradle-to-cradle approach, such as public buildings built to these criteria. Public procurement is to be geared more toward circular principles, and state programs for environmental research are to be increased.