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The Greens want to expand consumer protection in Berlin and fund the Verbraucherzentrale (consumer advice center) on a lasting basis. People are to receive understandable information about products and services and be able to make informed decisions themselves.

The Greens want to protect customers better. The consumer advice center will get reliable funding. People get advice there about purchases and contracts. Schools will teach more about money, advertising and debt.

Consumer education is to be promoted in schools and out-of-school settings, for example on influencer marketing, sustainable consumption, digital security, retirement savings and debt. Such offerings are to come from bodies with no financial interest of their own, such as the consumer advice center. Food and veterinary inspection in the districts is to be strengthened, and the advice center's second location in Lichtenberg expanded. An outreach project advising migrants is to be relaunched. The program accuses the CDU-SPD state government of having weakened consumer protection through its budget policy.

The Greens want to make sports accessible to everyone in Berlin and treat sports facilities as part of basic public services. Certain groups are to receive targeted support, gyms and pools are to be renovated or newly built, and coaches are to be paid better.

The Greens want everyone in Berlin to be able to do sports. Broken gyms and swimming pools will be repaired. Girls, women, children and people with disabilities will get more programs. Coaches will get more pay. All children should be able to learn to swim.

Gyms and fields are to go to clubs first; the rules on use of sports facilities (SPAN) are to be changed, and non-club sports may use spaces where no conflict arises. Training courses are meant to bring more FLINTA* people into leadership and coaching roles, and gender budgeting and equal pay are to strengthen women's sports. Hourly pay for instructors in children's, youth and inclusive sports is to reach 20 to 25 euros in the longer term. Clubs with youth sports are to be required to hold a child protection seal. Bundesliga funding is to cover all Berlin top-league teams and women's second-division teams; elite sports schools are to open up to more disciplines and no longer remove students for athletic performance. Lower membership numbers are to suffice for funding paid administrative staff in clubs.

The Greens want to attach conditions to major sports events in Berlin. By 2030 they are to be climate-neutral and respect human rights, and organizers are to share in the public costs they cause.

The Greens want clear rules for big sports events. By 2030 the events should no longer harm the climate. Organizers should help pay for security and traffic. They should get no tax breaks. Sports for everyone should not lose money because of this.

Organizers are to ensure public participation, transparency and sustainability criteria, and to demonstrate waste prevention, fair working conditions and open climate accounting. Public money is not to secure private profits in commercial elite sports. Organizers and federations are to contribute on a binding basis to spending on security, transport, infrastructure and public services. The program rejects tax exemptions, fee reductions and other special privileges. Spending on major events is not to come at the expense of grassroots sports.

The Greens want to limit advertising for sports betting and do more to educate people about the dangers of gambling. At the same time, esports and gaming are to be supported through nonprofit structures as part of youth culture.

The Greens want less advertising for sports betting. Schools will talk more about the dangers of gambling. Nonprofit clubs will not be allowed to advertise gambling. Esports will get support. Esports means people play video games as a competition.

The program calls for a public campaign on gambling risks and for education work by the Landessportbund Berlin (state sports federation). Gambling ads are to carry clear warning labels. Such advertising is to be banned for nonprofit clubs. In esports, nonprofit structures, media literacy and diversity are to be supported in order to build a sustainable and fair esports location.

The Greens reject Berlin's ongoing bid to host the Olympic Games. The platform cites environmental damage, financial risk, and social effects such as rising rents and displacement.

Berlin wants to host the Olympic Games. The Greens are against this. They say the Games cost a lot of money. They harm the environment. And rents may go up.

The platform criticizes the Olympic system for giving athletes too little say and for weak responsibility on human rights. In the party's view, events of this size leave a large ecological footprint. Costs regularly balloon, it says, while the promised long-term benefits for the city fail to appear. Higher rents, displacement, and security measures are also said to fall hardest on people who are already under strain.

The Greens want a citywide network of sports facilities that are accessible and climate-neutral. Every district is to get at least three inclusive sports facilities, and freely accessible sports areas are to be expanded.

The Greens want more sports facilities in Berlin. People with disabilities should be able to use them well. Every district should get at least three such facilities. The facilities should not harm the climate. There should also be more free outdoor sports areas.

The basis is to be a development plan for sports facilities, with the state supporting the districts in carrying it out. Roller and ice sports facilities are to be made inclusive, gaps such as in Marzahn-Hellersdorf closed, and a criteria catalog for inclusive sports facilities made binding. Artificial turf is to be built without microplastic infill and be recyclable, ice rinks are to run climate-neutrally, and waste heat from cooling systems is to be used. Facility allocation is to be digital and transparent, and schoolyards are to be open after class. Residents are to have more say in planning so that FLINTA* people in particular use the spaces more.

The Greens want every child in Berlin to learn to swim and every district to have renovated, accessible pools. They plan a pool-building push with new construction and reopenings, especially in underserved districts.

Every child in Berlin should learn to swim. The Greens want to build new pools for this. Closed pools should open again. Marzahn-Hellersdorf should get an outdoor pool. There should be more swimming classes, also during school breaks.

School swimming centers are to be put to use, vacation courses added, and more pool time created, including separate swim times for women, girls, and FLINTA* people. Pools are to get energy retrofits and recover heat from wastewater and exhaust air. Marzahn-Hellersdorf, the only district without an outdoor summer pool, is to get one. Volunteers in service programs are to get in free, admission for students is to be affordable, and the canceled swim buses are to return. The pool operator would have to attend all advisory board meetings; the party will examine a veto for districts on investment and pricing decisions.

The Greens back the aim of the "Berlin werbefrei" (ad-free Berlin) citizens' initiative to regulate commercial advertising in public space more tightly. They argue that advertising affects everyone and therefore needs binding rules.

The Greens want stricter rules for ads in the city. They support the citizens' initiative "Berlin werbefrei" on this. They reject large ads on scaffolding in front of apartment windows. Ads should not put anyone down.

The party welcomes the debate triggered by the initiative on how laws can limit the negative effects of outdoor advertising. It rejects large-format advertising on scaffolding in front of the windows of residential buildings. It also opposes sexist and discriminatory advertising.

The Greens want to gradually redesign Berlin so that older people can get around and spend time outdoors comfortably in daily life. This includes joining a World Health Organization network, more public toilets and seating, accessible housing and a discounted Deutschlandticket.

The Greens want to make Berlin better for older people. There should be more shaded benches and drinking fountains. There should be good public toilets in every neighborhood. People with little money should get a cheaper Deutschlandticket. It should be easier to adapt apartments so they have no barriers.

Berlin would join the WHO network of age-friendly cities and communities in order to learn from others. Plans include drinking fountains, shaded benches, public toilets in every neighborhood and the citywide rollout of the "Nette Toilette" scheme, under which restaurants and shops open their restrooms free of charge. Advice on adapting homes for old age would be better publicized, and the obligation to reverse such changes after moving out would be dropped. Communal forms of housing would be supported. For buses and trains, the Greens advocate a Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) priced according to income. Added to this are short distances with local shops and services, accessible sidewalks, spaces for protection from heat and "chat benches" in the districts.