Grüne: program for the 2023 Bremen state election

The Greens want rents in the city center to fall and plan to pursue this through talks with property owners. The city is to support the conversion of large retail and office buildings using federal urban development funds and special urban planning law. The aim is to let new, creative businesses gain a foothold downtown.

The Greens want lower rents for stores downtown. They want to talk with the building owners about this. The city should help with rebuilding old buildings. Then new businesses can move downtown.

The Greens want Bremen to remain a steel location and to support the steel plant in switching to climate-neutral production. To do so, they plan to create the legal and infrastructure conditions and to fund new technologies heavily. As part of a green industrial policy, companies and employees are to be involved in the transition.

Bremen should keep making steel. But the steel plant should stop harming the climate. The Greens want to provide the rules, power lines and networks for this. They want to give strong support to new technology.

The Greens want to turn the Hansalinie business park into a green commercial area in order to secure automotive jobs in Bremen. Mercedes and its suppliers are to get a site there for their path to climate neutrality. In addition, charging infrastructure for electric cars is to grow quickly.

Bremen should stay a place where cars are built. The Greens want to develop the Hansalinie business park in an eco-friendly way. Mercedes and other companies should have room there for electric cars. More charging stations should be built quickly.

The Greens want to develop the sustainable Lune Delta business park in Bremerhaven for green-economy companies. A start-up center and a test field for electrolyzers are to form its core and turn the Luneplate area into a hub for hydrogen research. The party expects this to give an economic boost to Bremerhaven and the region.

A large, eco-friendly business park is planned in Bremerhaven. It is called Lune Delta. Companies with green ideas should work there. There should be a center for new companies. Researchers should test hydrogen technology there.

The Greens want commercial land to come mainly from existing sites in the future instead of paving over more green space. The current pace of new land sealing, they say, is neither ecologically nor economically viable. New standards are to create green business parks, and in the long run the net-zero target is to be reached.

Bremen should build on fewer green spaces for business. Companies should use existing land better. The Greens want to advise businesses on this. New business parks should protect the climate and the environment.

The Greens want Bremen to remain an important location for the aerospace industry. The sector is meant to help reach the goal of more climate-friendly air travel. To this end, the party wants to strengthen Bremen's profile within cross-regional partnerships.

Bremen should stay an important place for building planes and for space travel. Flying should harm the climate less. Companies and researchers should work together on this. Bremen works with Hamburg and Lower Saxony here.

The Greens want to protect existing commercial sites from being converted to other uses and to keep the total stock of industrial land from shrinking. Because Bremen and neighboring municipalities have few land reserves left, they want a joint strategy for business sites.

The Greens want to protect land for businesses. This land should not simply become housing. Bremen has little free land left. So Bremen should plan together with nearby towns.

The Greens want Bremen's business development agency (WFB) to see itself as a transformation agency that advises companies on the social and ecological transition. Management of commercial districts is to be extended step by step to every site in the city.

Businesses should become greener. They need advice for that. The Greens want Bremen's business development agency to help. It should look after all business districts in the city.

The Greens want to offer founders permanent locations instead of temporary ones and to provide the storage and hall space that is lacking. Public funding for social enterprises is to be made permanent, and women are to get targeted support when starting a business.

The Greens want to help people who start a company. They should get lasting rooms and halls. Social enterprises should keep getting money too. These are firms that want to solve problems in society. Women should get special help when starting a company.

The Greens want tourism to remain a strong economic factor in the state and to evolve in light of climate change. More marketing and digital services are meant to raise the profile of both cities as destinations for sustainable travel.

Tourism matters for Bremen and Bremerhaven. The Greens want to keep it strong. It should become greener. For that, there should be more advertising and more digital services.

The Greens want Germany's seaports to cooperate more closely instead of working against each other. The northern German states should define shared interests and pursue them at the federal and EU levels. This is meant to strengthen their position against other European ports and the large container shipping alliances.

The Greens want the ports in northern Germany to work together more. The northern states should agree on shared goals. They should push for these goals in Berlin and in the EU. This should make the ports stronger against big shipping companies.

The Greens want a port and infrastructure policy that secures domestic control over the ports. In the platform's view, economic ties with autocracies lead to dependence in critical infrastructure and trade. The policy is meant to support a values-based foreign trade strategy.

The Greens want Germany to keep control of its ports. They warn against business deals with states that are not democracies. In their view, such deals create dependence. Trade with other countries should be guided more by values.

The Greens want older people to be able to live in their familiar surroundings for as long as they wish. Short distances, accessibility, meeting places and good neighborhood services are meant to make that possible. The decline of local shops and services is to be reversed and loneliness in old age addressed.

Older people should be able to live well in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Shops, doctors and meeting places should be close by. The Greens want to do something about loneliness. Helpers should visit older people at home. There should also be services for older queer people.

The Greens want to give more funding to neighborhood support networks, community centers, service centers and meeting places. Digital services are meant to help reduce loneliness in old age. The seniors' council is to remain involved in political decisions.

The Greens want to give more support to neighbors helping each other. This includes meeting places and centers in the neighborhood. Older people should get help with the internet. This should help against loneliness. The seniors' council should keep having a say.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a higher Bürgergeld (citizen's income) that rises with the cost of living. Bremen's own city and state programs are meant to let people on basic income support take part in social and cultural life. The party backs the Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance).

The Greens want a higher Bürgergeld. That is the basic income support. It should go up when prices go up. They will push for this at the federal level. Bremen should help with its own programs. Poor people should be able to take part in culture and leisure. The Greens support a basic child allowance.

The Greens want to fund advice and support services for people affected by poverty and make them easier to access. Debt counseling is to accompany people until their personal bankruptcy proceedings are finished. Food banks (Tafeln) are to get relief on their operating costs.

The Greens want better advice for poor people. People with debts should get help for a long time. The help should last until their bankruptcy case ends. People should find the right advice office faster. The cities should pay some costs of the food banks.

The Greens want to give intensive support to the long-term unemployed, including through a publicly subsidized labor market. Bremen's labor market programs are to be continued, stepped up and extended. At the federal level, the party wants the Teilhabechancengesetz (Participation Opportunities Act) to apply permanently.

The Greens want to help people who have been out of work for a long time. The state should also pay for jobs for them. Bremen's programs should run longer. There should be better preparation courses. A federal support law should have no end date.

The Greens want to involve workers in the shift to a climate-neutral economy and support them with training and advice. So-called transformation guides are meant to improve training for the changing world of work. In the party's view, investment in climate protection creates new jobs.

The economy should become climate-neutral. That means it should no longer harm the climate. The Greens want workers to have a say in this. Workers should get advice and training. Special guides should help with that.

The Greens want stricter checks on whether companies comply with collective agreements when they receive public contracts. Violations could lead as far as exclusion from public procurement. In addition, migrant workers and platform economy workers are to be better protected.

Companies with government contracts should pay union-agreed wages. The Greens want stricter checks on this. Companies that break the rules should get no more contracts. Workers from other countries should get better protection. This also applies to work through internet platforms.

The Greens want to keep promoting remote work and expand the structures that support it. To do so, they call for reforming the Occupational Safety Act and the Working Hours Act so that flexible work is legally secure while employees remain protected.

Many people have worked from home since the pandemic. The Greens want to keep this possible. Two laws should be changed for this. Workers should stay well protected.

The Greens want better protection for people working through digital labor platforms and back the EU's planned rules to that end. They also want to fight exploitative working conditions, improve occupational safety and check that minimum wages are paid.

Some people work through apps and online platforms. Pay and conditions there are often poor. The Greens want to protect these people better. They also want to check that firms pay the minimum wage. Immigrants should know their rights.

At the federal level, the Greens are pushing for "flexible full-time," letting employees choose working hours between 30 and 40 per week. In the long run, the 30-hour week is to count as the new full-time.

The Greens want more flexible working hours. Workers should be able to choose between 30 and 40 hours a week. That way work fits better with family and free time. Later, 30 hours should count as a full job.

The Greens want to draw more young people into dual vocational training. Dorms for trainees, a discounted public transit ticket for trainees and more flexible training conditions are meant to help. Career guidance is to be stepped up at all general schools.

The Greens want more young people to do job training. Trainees should get their own dorms. They should get a cheap ticket for buses and trams. Schools should give better information about jobs. Part-time training should also be possible.

The Greens want to make it easier to recognize vocational qualifications earned abroad and to better connect immigrants with language courses, further training and jobs. The Bremer Weiterbildungsscheck (training voucher) would be increased so that recognition does not fail for lack of money.

Many immigrants learned a trade in another country. The Greens want Bremen to accept these qualifications more easily. There should be more counseling and more money for training. Companies should also get help when they employ immigrants.

The Greens want to make vocational training more inclusive so that more people with disabilities complete a qualification. Their pay should be enough to live on, and moving from sheltered workshops to the regular labor market should become easier.

The Greens want more people with disabilities to finish job training. The training should fit them better. Their pay should be enough to live on. Moving from a sheltered workshop to a regular company should become easier.

The Greens see a major need to reform church labor law, especially regarding the right to strike and rules on employees' private lives. They want to negotiate with church-run social institutions and unions so that these employers stop applying the special rules. State action is also to remove barriers that exist because of religious affiliation.

Special rules apply to people who work for church-run employers. For example, they often may not strike. The Greens want to change this. They want to talk with the institutions and the unions. The employers should give up the special rules voluntarily.

The Greens want to update the action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and cover all areas of life. Education, university study and vocational training are to become more inclusive, and medical care for people with disabilities is to be better resourced.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The Greens want to continue Bremen's action plan for this. Daycare centers, schools and universities should be open to all. Job training should happen more often in regular companies. Hospitals should prepare better for these patients.

The Greens want to reshape workshops for people with disabilities so that they open the way into regular employment. The platform argues that many people with disabilities currently have no option other than the workshop.

Many people with disabilities cannot find a regular job. They work in a special workshop instead. The Greens want to change these workshops. The workshops should help people move into regular companies.

The Greens want to campaign at the federal level for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance). The platform argues that young people in Bremen are often poor and that this reduces their chances in life.

Many young people in Bremen are poor. This hurts their chances in life. So the Greens want a basic child allowance. That is a cash benefit for children. They want to push for it at the national level.

The Greens want to guarantee student assistants contracts of at least two years by law. They also back a collective agreement for student employees and want more internships in public administration to be paid.

Many students work at their university. Their contracts are often very short. The Greens want contracts of at least two years. This should be written into law. There should also be a collective agreement. That is one fixed deal on pay and work for everyone.

The Greens want academic staff who handle permanent tasks to get permanent positions, with open-ended contracts becoming the norm. In the Bundesrat they want to work toward a reform of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (the federal law on fixed-term academic contracts), because in their view chains of short contracts create insecurity rather than innovation.

Many researchers only have short contracts. The Greens want to change that. People with long-term tasks should get a permanent job. A federal law allows many short contracts today. The Greens want that law changed.

The Greens want to attract more people to skilled trades needed for climate protection. They plan a training campaign, more continuing education, a transition company for workers affected by the shift, and a state-level training grant for low-skilled workers.

Bremen needs many skilled trade workers for climate protection. The Greens want more people to choose these jobs. Schools should give better information about job training. People who must learn a new job should get help and money.

The Greens stand by the debt brake because, in their view, Bremen has seen how a heavy debt burden shrinks room to act. For investments in climate neutrality and sustainability, they still want to borrow within narrow limits and reach agreement on this with the federal government and the other states. They reject selling public property.

The Greens want to keep the debt brake. That is a rule against too much new debt. They still want to borrow some money for climate protection. The federal government and the other states should agree to this. Bremen should not sell public property.

The Greens want to push in the Bundesrat for heavier taxation of very large fortunes, financial gains, and large inheritances, and for tougher action against tax evasion. According to the platform, financial gains are currently taxed less than work, and the very rich should contribute more to the community.

The Greens want very rich people to pay more taxes. This applies to large fortunes, large inheritances, and gains from investments. People who cheat on taxes should be caught more often. Tax offices should be well equipped for this.

The Greens want to pay for the climate goals set by Bremen's climate inquiry commission with federal and third-party funds and, under certain conditions, also use an exception to the Schuldenbremse (debt brake). The platform says the state budget alone cannot cover this at the necessary pace.

Climate protection costs a lot of money. The Greens say Bremen's budget is not enough for it. They want to get money from the federal government and other sources. Under certain conditions, they also want to allow new debt.

The Greens want to give stronger support to energy-efficiency renovations through construction guidance and subsidies. People receiving Wohngeld (housing benefit) are to get a climate bonus. Municipal heat planning is meant to provide more certainty when choosing climate-friendly heating systems.

Many poor people live in badly insulated homes. The Greens want to help more with renovations. There should be advice and money for this. People who get housing benefit should get a climate bonus. The cities should plan how homes will be heated in the future.

The Greens want to secure and create affordable housing, especially for people on low incomes, young families and single parents. The share of subsidized housing is to rise beyond the current 30 percent in new construction projects. In the party's view, housing should not be left to the market alone.

The Greens want more affordable homes. They are mainly for people with little money. Young families and single parents should get them too. There should be more social housing. These are homes the state supports so that rent stays low.

The Greens want to continue the state programs for disadvantaged neighborhoods and extend them to additional areas. Funding for climate protection projects in neighborhoods is also to continue beyond the current period. Programs for older people in their neighborhoods are meant to help avoid moves into care homes.

Bremen supports neighborhoods that are worse off. The Greens want to keep this support going. More areas should get money. Climate projects in neighborhoods should also keep getting money. Older people should be able to stay in their homes for a long time.

The Greens want to add staff to the Wohngeld (housing benefit) office and restructure it so that applications are processed faster. The background is the housing benefit reform, which makes considerably more people eligible. The benefit is also to be better publicized, and applying is to become simpler and possible online.

Housing benefit is money from the state to help pay rent. The Greens want more staff in the housing benefit office. Then people get their money faster. Many people do not know they can get this money. So there should be more information. Applying should be easier and possible online.

The Greens want homelessness in Bremen to end by 2030. Instead of basic hotels or shared shelters, everyone is to live in a home of their own. To achieve this, the "Housing First" pilot project is to become a permanent service.

The Greens want this: by 2030, no one in Bremen should be without a home. Every person should get a home of their own. The home comes first, then more help follows. This approach is called Housing First.

The Greens want a binding quota of 30 percent social housing in larger new construction projects. By the end of 2023, Bremen is to have 8,000 social housing units. Building groups and housing cooperatives are to receive more support.

The Greens want more social housing. In large new buildings, 30 percent should be social housing. There should be 8,000 such homes by the end of 2023. Groups that build together should get more help.

The Greens want to create an urban development company that secures land for affordable housing and inner-city commercial space. The city is to own more land and buildings and, as a rule, hand out its own plots only under Erbbaurecht (long-term ground leases).

The Greens want a city-owned company for urban development. It should secure land for affordable homes. The city should buy more land. It should no longer sell its own land but only lease it for a long time.

The Greens want to further develop the Bremer Standard for climate-friendly new buildings and launch a state program for climate-friendly construction. Because building uses a lot of energy and seals land, conversion, renovation and recycling of building materials are to complement new construction.

The Greens want building to harm the climate less. New houses should meet high energy rules. There should be less concrete and steel. Converting buildings should come before building new ones.

The Greens want a funding program to make it easier to split large apartments and convert single-family houses into multi-unit buildings. The Wohnraumschutzgesetz (housing protection law) is to be changed so that vacant homes are quickly put back into use.

The Greens want new homes in existing buildings. It should be easier to split large apartments. There should be funding for this. Empty homes should be lived in again quickly.

The Greens want city-owned housing companies to halt, for now, rent increases, energy cutoffs, terminations and evictions over unpaid bills. At the federal level they want the states to be allowed to introduce a rent moratorium.

The Greens want to protect tenants during the energy crisis. City-owned housing companies should not raise rents for now. They should not end leases over unpaid bills. The federal government should also let the states freeze rents.

The Greens want a state program to give Baugemeinschaften (groups of private households building together) a place in future neighborhood developments, including in Bremerhaven. Funding for nonprofit-oriented building groups and housing cooperatives would grow, and both would get land more cheaply.

The Greens want to support building groups. These are groups of people who build a house together. Housing cooperatives should also get more help. Both should get land at a fixed, low price.

The Greens want to counter the trend toward more living space per person and make better use of existing housing. Funding, advice and a swap exchange would make it easier to move into smaller homes; the program justifies this with Bremen's climate targets.

Many people live in more and more space. The Greens want to change that. People who move to a smaller home should get money and advice. A swap exchange should help people trade homes. This should also help the climate.

The Greens want to add a trustee rule to Bremen's Housing Protection Act. Properties that stand empty for a long time could be handed to a trustee who renovates and rents them out and later returns them to the owners.

Some houses stand empty for a long time. The Greens want to change that. A trustee should be able to take over such houses. A trustee manages a house for its owners. The trustee repairs it and rents it out. Then the owners get the house back.

The Greens want to ease single parents' path into work through part-time vocational training, family-friendly working hours and flexible childcare. The platform justifies this with the high poverty risk of this group in the state of Bremen.

Single parents are often poor. The Greens want to help them. There should be more part-time job training. Daycare should also be open early and late. Working hours should fit families better.

The Greens want to better coordinate and expand support for families with young children across government departments. Family education institutions are to receive more money and staff. According to the platform, this is meant to prevent poverty and relieve the youth welfare office.

The Greens want to help families with small children early. Government offices should work together better. Family centers and mothers' centers should get more money. They should also get more staff. This should help prevent poverty.

The Greens want parents to receive educational offerings and support at every daycare center. The program argues that the family is the central place where children are raised. Interpreting services and German courses for parents are to complement this.

The Greens want to give parents more support. Every daycare center should have offerings for parents. Topics include health and media use. Interpreters should help. German courses for parents should continue.

The Greens want to expand daycare faster. The goal is a place for every child over three and for 66 percent of children under three in every district. Until then, children without a place are to get a basic early education offering.

The Greens want to build new daycare centers faster. Every child over three should get a place. For younger children, the goal is 66 percent. This should apply in every district. Children without a place should get another offering until then.

The Greens want longer care hours so that all parents can work, including full-time. Single parents are to get a right to eight hours of care per day. The fixed enrollment date tied to the daycare year is to be dropped in the medium term.

The Greens want longer hours at daycare centers. This lets parents work full-time. Single parents should get a right to eight hours a day. Children should be able to start daycare in the middle of the year.

The Greens want a statewide strategy that coordinates the existing ways for young people to take part in decisions. According to the platform, there are many options but no joint planning.

Young people in Bremen can have a say in many places. But these options are not well coordinated. So the Greens want one shared plan. Young people should help write the plan.

The Greens want more programs that prevent violence against children and want to strengthen parents' child-rearing skills. The platform attributes violence in many cases to a lack of knowledge and to caregivers being overwhelmed.

Too many children experience violence. The Greens want more programs to prevent it. Parents should get more advice. Counseling centers should work together better.

The Greens want to press at the federal level for a model called Elternvollzeit (parental full-time). Both parents would cut their working hours at the same time and receive compensation for lost pay.

The Greens want a new model for parents. Both parents work fewer hours at the same time. They still get money to make up for lost pay. Single parents should be able to use it too.

The Greens want urban development to focus more on children, young people and families. This includes play streets, more play areas and places for young people to meet without having to buy anything.

Children need safe places to play. The Greens want play streets in front of daycare centers and schools. Schoolyards should also be open in the afternoon and on weekends. Young people should get places where they can meet.

The Greens want to keep funding youth centers, youth clubs and open youth work and to improve their quality. In neighborhoods where the number of young people has risen sharply and need is high, new leisure and sports options are to be created. Neighborhood farms are to get their own stable funding.

The Greens want to keep funding youth centers and youth clubs. Many young people spend their free time there. Some neighborhoods now have many more young people. These areas should get new offers. All young people should be able to enter the buildings without barriers.

The Greens want the youth welfare office to be adequately staffed and want to retain new employees through on-the-job training and support. The same is to apply to independent providers. Funding for volunteer work in clubs and youth associations is also to rise.

The youth welfare office should have enough staff. New staff should stay and get further training. This also applies to other youth service providers. The Greens also want more funding for volunteers in clubs. Volunteers are people who help without pay.

The Greens want to raise the quality of early childhood education through binding standards. These are to be written into the contracts between the municipality and daycare providers. Inclusion in daycare centers is also to get a binding basis.

The Greens want better daycare centers. There should be fixed rules for quality. The rules should be part of the contracts with daycare providers. Providers are the groups that run daycare centers. There should also be fixed rules for children with special needs.

The Greens want to strengthen the last daycare year before children start school in order to make education fairer. Daycare centers and elementary schools are also to work more closely together so the transition goes smoothly.

The Greens want to strengthen the last year of daycare. More children should attend daycare before school. Daycare centers and elementary schools should work together more closely. This should make the move to school easier.

The Greens want to train, recruit and retain more early childhood educators. Training is to become more attractive and more often paid. The program points to the heavy strain on staff caused by the shortage of skilled workers.

Daycare centers lack trained staff. The Greens want to win more people for the job. Training should become more attractive. More trainees should get paid. Experienced staff should stay in the job.

The Greens want to require every school to begin a quality development process and provide advisers for it. Schools are to decide on content and priorities themselves. The program cites social inequality and students missing minimum standards in German and math.

The Greens want to improve schools. Every school should work on its quality. Advisers should support the schools. Schools should choose their own priorities. An institute should collect and analyze data for this.

The Greens want to promote multilingualism in schools and offer lessons in more heritage languages as part of the regular timetable. The program notes that most children in the state of Bremen grow up with more than one language.

Many children in Bremen speak several languages. The Greens want to support this. Schools should offer lessons in more heritage languages. These are languages children know from home. More teachers should be trained for this.

The Greens want to improve the quality of inclusive teaching, staffing levels, and teacher training and continuing education. Assistants are increasingly to be employed permanently at schools. According to the program, the goal is the best possible participation for all children with impairments.

In Bremen, children with and without disabilities learn together. The Greens want to improve this further. Schools should get more permanent assistants. Children with autism or ADHD should get help more easily. They should not have to tell everyone about their condition.

The Greens want to close the special-needs school on Fritz-Gansberg-Straße as planned when its guarantee of continued operation ends in 2024. In its place, mainstream schools are to get more preventive support, and intensive educational programs are to be set up outside the regular school.

Bremen has a special school for children with social and emotional difficulties. The Greens want to close this school in 2024. The children should learn at regular schools. These schools should get more help. For hard times there should be extra programs outside the school.

The Greens want to support schools in expanding all-day schooling and, in the medium term, move everywhere to the compulsory all-day model, in which the whole school day is mandatory. Homework is to serve only as practice, so that children do not need help from parents.

The Greens want more all-day schools. Later, all schools should have a fixed all-day program. This means all children stay at school until the afternoon. Homework should only be for practice. Children should not need help from their parents for it.

The Greens want to give schools noticeably more money for teaching and learning materials and distribute it more strongly according to social criteria. The program cites rising student numbers and high inflation as reasons.

Schools need money for books and materials. The Greens want to give them more money for this. Schools with many poor families should get the most. For many parents there, school materials cost too much.

The Greens want to permanently fund tablets and digital learning infrastructure in schools and introduce technical support by professional staff. Digital and analog forms of learning are to be better combined, without digital replacing analog.

Schools in Bremen have tablets. The Greens want to secure the money for them for the long term. Experts should take care of the technology. Teachers then no longer have to do that. Learning with tablets and learning without them should fit together well.

The Greens want teachers at schools with a high social index to have fewer required teaching hours. Disadvantaged neighborhoods are also to get enough teachers and early-childhood educators, because according to the program far fewer people apply for jobs there.

Some schools are in poor neighborhoods. Work there is especially hard for teachers. The Greens want them to teach fewer hours there. That gives them more time to talk with parents. These neighborhoods should also get enough teachers.

The Greens want to establish teams drawn from different professions at schools and gradually extend school social work to all schools. In the program's view, this is the best way to handle the growing demands on schools.

Schools should not only have teachers. The Greens want teams from many professions. These include social workers and speech therapists, for example. They should all work together as equals. Step by step, every school should get school social work.

The Greens want to make it easier and faster for immigrant teachers and career changers to enter the school service. The aim is to keep potential staff from failing because of excessive hurdles and to make teaching staffs more diverse.

Bremen does not have enough teachers. The Greens want to make it easier to become a teacher. This applies to people from other countries and from other jobs. They can catch up on missing language skills while working. Young people should also get into teacher training more easily.

The Greens want to pay prospective teachers more during the Referendariat (post-university practical teacher training). Those who commit to working in Bremen afterward are to receive an additional bonus.

After university, future teachers do practical training. It is called Referendariat. The Greens want to pay more money during this time. Those who stay in Bremen afterward get an extra amount. This should bring more teachers to work in Bremen.

The Greens want to renew Bremen's cross-party school agreement (Schulkonsens), which expires in 2028, by starting talks early with the other democratic parties. Rather than fixing structures, the new agreement should set goals so that every type of school is open to every child. They also want a pilot school running from grade 1 to grade 13.

Bremen's parties have an agreement about schools. It ends in 2028. The Greens want to talk early about a new one. Every school should be open to every child. One test school should cover grades 1 to 13.

The Greens want to raise the standing of vocational schools so they rank equally with general schools and university study. Young people who do not find a training place after lower secondary school should get more support. School sites are to be modernized along the lines of the existing campus plans.

The Greens want to strengthen vocational schools. Job training should count as much as a university degree. Some young people find no training place after school. They should get more help. Vocational schools should get better buildings and equipment.

The Greens want young people to have access to historical and civic education outside school as well. To that end, the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (state agency for civic education) is to be strengthened and reach more young people. Civic education for working adults is also to be made easier.

The Greens want more civic education for young people. The state agency for civic education should get more support. It should work more often in schools and youth centers. Working people should also find it easier to take civic courses.

The Greens want to press in future budgets for education spending in the state of Bremen to keep rising. The goal is to bring spending per student step by step up to the level of the other city-states, Berlin and Hamburg.

The Greens want to spend more money on education. Bremen should spend as much per student as Berlin and Hamburg. This should happen step by step. The money is for school buildings, all-day schools, inclusion and digital tools.

The Greens want universities and research institutes to have a stronger presence in downtown Bremen, including a partial move of the University of Bremen. The platform calls this a historic opportunity for both the universities and the city center. A separate plan is to cover the space that would be freed up at the current campus.

The Greens want more science in downtown Bremen. Part of the university should move there. Other colleges should be included too. There should be a separate plan for the old campus.

The Greens want to replace the state's science plan, which expires in 2025, with a Science Plan 2030 that gives public universities a reliable financial outlook. Spending per student should not be cut further but should gradually move toward the national average.

Bremen has a plan for its universities. This plan ends in 2025. The Greens want a new plan up to 2030. Universities should know for sure how much money they get. Money per student should not go down. It should rise bit by bit.

The Greens want students to be able to study without money worries. They will push at the federal level for higher BAföG (student aid) rates and aid that does not depend on parents' income, and they will not bring back an administrative fee for students in Bremen.

Money should not stop anyone from studying. The Greens want higher BAföG. BAföG is money from the state for students. It should no longer depend on what parents earn. Bremen should get more places in student housing. Each campus should offer counseling for students in a crisis.

The Greens want to keep funding research in the state as a whole while setting priorities, for example in climate, health, materials, computer science and aerospace. They stand by the universities' Zivilklausel (civil clause), the self-commitment not to do research for military purposes.

The Greens want to keep funding research in Bremen. Some topics should get special attention. These include climate, health, robots and space travel. The universities have chosen not to do research for the military. The Greens still support this.

The Greens want to enlarge Hochschule Bremerhaven with new professorships, faculties and more study places, and to better equip Hochschule Bremen for teaching. Dual study programs are to grow in both cities because, in the party's view, they secure skilled workers for local companies.

The university of applied sciences in Bremerhaven should grow. It should get more subjects and more students. The one in Bremen should get more money for teaching. There should be more dual study programs. In these, you study and work at a company at the same time.

The Greens want everyone who meets the requirements to be able to study, regardless of background, money or disabilities. To that end, German language requirements are to be lowered or dropped in suitable subjects, people with vocational qualifications admitted more easily, and universities made accessible.

The Greens want to open university to more people. Some subjects do not need very good German. The language rules there should be relaxed. People with job training should find it easier to study. Universities should have no barriers for people with disabilities.

The Greens want all four groups at universities to carry equal weight on every governing body. At present, professors have more say than students and staff. People who serve on these bodies are to get relief from other duties.

Universities have committees that make decisions. Professors have more votes there today. The Greens want to change that. All groups should have the same say. People on committees should get less other work in return.

The Greens want to expand teacher training to ease the teacher shortage in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The sports education program at the University of Bremen is to be brought back. Gender studies are also to become a firm part of research and teaching again.

Bremen does not have enough teachers. So the Greens want to strengthen teacher training. The sports education program should return to the university. Gender studies should also get more room again. Gender studies look at the roles of the sexes.

The Greens want to raise the quality of teaching at universities. Instructors are to have a regular right to training in teaching methods, and there is to be more permanent staff for teaching and program administration. Ongoing teaching duties are no longer to be handed to lower-paid adjunct lecturers.

The Greens want better teaching at universities. Teachers should be able to get training every five years. There should be more permanent jobs for teaching. Adjunct lecturers are helpers with lower pay. They should no longer do permanent tasks.

The Greens want international cooperation in research and teaching only where it benefits democracy. Propaganda and intimidation of critical students or researchers by representatives of other states are not to occur at Bremen's universities. The party rejects cooperation with the Confucius Institute.

Universities work with partners in other countries. The Greens say this must help democracy. Other states must not threaten students. The Greens name China here. There should be no work with the Confucius Institute.

The Greens want more Bremen schools to take part in the EU exchange program Erasmus Plus and more Europaschulen (Europe schools) to be set up. Students and trainees should experience European exchanges early on.

Erasmus Plus is an EU program for exchanges abroad. The Greens want more Bremen schools to join. Trainees should go abroad more often too. There should be more Europe schools with partner schools.

The Greens want children to learn hands-on where food comes from and how to cook healthy, affordable meals. Schools and daycare centers are to get gardens and teaching kitchens for this. At the federal level, the party wants a ban on advertising for unhealthy, sugary products that targets children.

Children should learn where their food comes from. Schools and daycare centers should get a garden and a kitchen for learning. This applies where there is enough space. The Greens also want a ban on ads for unhealthy food aimed at children.

The Greens call for a pandemic council for Bremen made up mainly of scientific experts and representatives of the health care system. It is to give policymakers scientific advice on long-term strategies. The party considers further protective measures against the COVID-19 pandemic necessary.

The Greens want a pandemic council for Bremen. A pandemic is a disease that spreads around the world. Experts from research and medicine sit on the council. They advise the politicians.

The Greens want people to get reliable medical care close to where they live. To that end, working conditions and pay in health care are to improve, and incentives are to draw professionals to Bremen and Bremerhaven. Nursing care, hospice places and psychotherapy are also to be expanded.

The Greens want good doctors and practices in every neighborhood. People who work in health care should get better conditions. That way, more professionals should come to Bremen. There should also be more places for psychotherapy and care.

The Greens want to give everyone access to menstrual products, which they classify as a necessary medical good. As a start, the products are to be available in the restrooms of all public buildings. The party justifies this with the financial burden on many of those affected.

Pads and tampons cost money. For some people that is too expensive. The Greens want to put them out in public buildings. These are schools and government offices, for example.

The Greens see a shortage of care when it comes to abortions. To fix it, medical staff are to be able to get the necessary training. This is also to happen through pilot projects.

The Greens say there are too few services for abortions. They want more training for medical staff. There should also be trial projects for this.

The Greens want to permanently give the public health departments more staff and better technology. Digitalization is meant to improve data sharing, ease the load on employees and make processes more efficient. The departments are also to become central bodies for pandemic preparedness and civil protection.

The Greens want to strengthen the public health departments. They should get more staff and better technology. The departments should prepare for new pandemics. A help service for mental health crises should be there day and night again.

The Greens want the hospital group Gesundheit Nord to stay in municipal ownership while becoming financially sustainable. Medical departments are to be concentrated and emergency rooms reorganized. At the federal level, hospital funding should no longer depend solely on case numbers.

The Greens want the Gesundheit Nord hospitals to stay owned by the city of Bremen. The hospitals should manage their money better. Not every hospital should offer everything. Emergency rooms should be only for real emergencies.

The Greens want to set up interdisciplinary centers for sexual, reproductive and gender-specific health and keep supporting existing services. The centers are also meant to be a point of contact for trans, inter and non-binary people.

The Greens want new health centers in Bremen. They deal with birth control, pregnancy and infections passed on through sex. Trans, inter and non-binary people also get help there. Women without health insurance should get their own consultation hours.

The Greens want people in a mental health crisis to get help faster. The state of Bremen is to have enough psychotherapists, more points of contact and better-connected support services. Prevention and suicide prevention are to receive more resources.

People in a mental crisis often wait months for help. The Greens want to change that. There should be more therapy places and more places to turn to. Children and teenagers should also get help more easily.

The Greens want to tackle the shortage of nursing staff through relief at work, adequate pay and family-friendly scheduling. Training places are to be expanded, academic nursing education promoted and foreign qualifications recognized quickly. The state is to get a commissioner for nursing care.

There are not enough nurses and caregivers. The Greens want to make these jobs better. Staff should have less stress and better pay. There should be more training places. Qualifications from abroad should be recognized faster.

The Greens want to stop financial investors from buying up care facilities and, in the long run, bring more nursing homes back into municipal ownership. In the short term, the state is to cover investment costs and residents' out-of-pocket contributions are to be capped.

Some companies buy nursing homes to make a lot of money. The Greens want to stop that. More homes should belong to the cities again. The state should pay part of the costs. Residents should not have to pay more and more themselves.

The Greens want to expand outpatient care in underserved districts and stabilize access to general practitioners and specialists. Health centers and health kiosks are to bring medicine, prevention and nursing care together in one place. Family caregivers are to get more relief.

Some districts have too few doctors and care services. The Greens want more services there. There should be health centers with many services under one roof. People who care for relatives should get free courses and more help.

The Greens want to quickly expand hospice and palliative care in the state of Bremen because, in their view, it falls short given the growing number of older people. The expected federal rules on assisted dying are to be implemented and funded in Bremen.

Bremen has too few places for dying people. The Greens want more hospice places and more help against pain. Everyone should decide about the end of their own life. Bremen should carry out the new federal law on assisted dying.

In drug policy, the Greens rely on education, youth protection, decriminalization and addiction prevention. They want to set up a drug-checking service and quickly implement federal cannabis legalization in Bremen. Until then, prosecutors are to stop pursuing the offenses concerned.

The Greens want more education about drugs and addiction. People should be able to have drugs tested for poison. This is called drug checking. If the federal government allows cannabis, Bremen should act fast. Even before that, prosecutors should stop pursuing such cases.

The Greens want to buy new ambulance vehicles and expand the HanseSani service and telemedicine in emergency care. The numbers 116 117 and 112 are to be linked more closely so that callers are guided to the right help. A first-responder app is to alert nearby helpers in cases of cardiac arrest.

The Greens want to buy new ambulances. The HanseSani service should stay for good. It is meant to avoid unneeded trips to the hospital. The emergency numbers should work together better. An app should call first-aiders when someone's heart stops.

The Greens want people with disabilities to have equal access to health care. To that end, anyone who needs a personal assistant during a hospital stay should get one.

Some people need a support person in the hospital. This person helps them during treatment. The Greens want everyone who needs this help to get it. This should also apply to people who need long-term care.

The Greens want to substantially expand help for people addicted to drugs and replace the current temporary drug consumption room with a permanent, larger facility. More street workers and decentralized services are to be added. According to the platform, this should also reduce conflicts around the main station.

The Greens want more help for people addicted to drugs. There should be a permanent room where they can use drugs more safely. They also get advice and a doctor there. More social workers should help on the street.

The Greens want midwives with traditional vocational training to be able to earn a bachelor's degree easily. Three quarters of the degree program are to be credited on the basis of that training. This is meant to prevent disadvantages in pay and status compared with university-trained midwives.

Midwives now learn their job at a university. Before, there was job training instead. The Greens want that training to count for a lot in the degree. Then midwives can finish the degree while working. They should not earn less than others.

The Greens want to collect organic waste separately throughout Bremen and Bremerhaven so it can be recycled better and used for energy. To that end, the organic waste bin would become mandatory.

The Greens want to collect food and garden waste separately everywhere. The organic waste bin should become mandatory. This waste can be turned into energy. There should also be more containers for used glass.

The Greens want to make it easier for skilled workers from abroad to enter the labor market. To that end, qualifications are to be recognized more easily and companies supported in hiring. The platform points to the need for skilled workers for the shift to climate neutrality.

The Greens want to make it easier for skilled workers from abroad to work here. Their degrees and certificates should be accepted more easily. Companies should get help when they hire these workers. Bremen needs many skilled workers.

The Greens want immigrant and refugee children and teenagers to be taught in regular classes quickly. Preparatory courses are to be well equipped and come with educational support. Young refugees are to be able to attend school after turning 18 as well.

Refugee children should join regular classes quickly. Before that, there are preparatory courses. The Greens want to equip these courses well. Experts should help children who lived through terrible things. Young refugees should be able to go to school after 18 too.

The Greens want to work to ensure that trainees without secure residency status are not deported, so that companies can plan with confidence. They also want needs-based language support to continue after school, backed by public funding.

Some trainees have no secure right to stay in Germany. The Greens want them not to be deported. This should also give companies certainty. Trainees should also get help learning German. The state should support this help.

The Greens want to keep Bremen a "safe harbor" for refugees and reject deportation detention as well as deportations to war and crisis zones. Immigrants are to settle in faster through quicker recognition of qualifications, language courses and swift naturalization.

The Greens want to keep taking in refugees. They reject deportations to war zones. They also reject detention before deportation. Immigrants should find work and learn German faster. Becoming a citizen should take less time.

The Greens want to examine whether Bremen should get its own state office for migration that brings together all responsibilities related to immigration. A guideline would also direct the immigration authorities to use their discretion in favor of the people affected.

The Greens are thinking about a new office for migration. This office would handle everything that immigrants need. The authorities would also get a guideline. They should let people stay when the law allows it.

The Greens want to make the counseling program „Ankommen im Quartier“ (Arriving in the Neighborhood) for refugees permanent. Municipal language courses would continue and integration courses would be better organized, to make an independent life easier for immigrants.

The Greens want to keep a counseling program for refugees. It is called „Ankommen im Quartier“. The city's language courses should also continue. The integration courses should get better.

The Greens want more space and privacy in initial reception facilities and want especially vulnerable refugees to be housed and cared for appropriately more quickly. The platform bases this on lessons from the pandemic.

The Greens want more space in shelters for refugees. No more than two people should share a room. Pregnant women and single parents should get suitable housing faster. Other vulnerable people should also get help quickly.

For rejected asylum seekers, the Greens rely on voluntary departure and want to limit deportations in Bremen and nationwide. They reject detention pending deportation; undocumented people who have lived in Bremen for years would get a right to stay through a cutoff-date rule.

The Greens want as few deportations as possible. Rejected asylum seekers should leave voluntarily. Nobody should be deported to a war zone. The Greens reject detention before deportation. People without papers should be allowed to stay if they have lived in Bremen for a long time.

The Greens want to relaunch Bremen's admission program for family members from Syria and Afghanistan in an improved form. Existing restrictions would be reviewed.

Bremen has its own program for refugees. It lets family members from Syria and Afghanistan come and join their relatives. The Greens want to restart and improve this program. They want to review the hurdles that exist so far.

The Greens want to make Bremen's naturalization campaign permanent so that more people become citizens and waiting times fall. Anyone who has lived in Bremen long enough would be approached directly by the authorities.

The Greens want more people to get German citizenship. The waiting time should get shorter. The office should write to people on its own. This applies to everyone who has lived in Bremen long enough.

The Greens call for a European refugee policy based on solidarity that guarantees people seeking protection a fair, individual asylum procedure. They want border protection to follow the rule of law under the European Parliament's control, and they reject pushbacks at the external borders as unlawful.

The Greens want Europe to protect people who flee war and violence. Every person should get a fair asylum procedure. The law should apply at the EU's borders. The European Parliament should oversee border protection. Bremen should support a civilian rescue ship with donations.

The Greens call for safe routes for refugees with admission quotas and a fair distribution of arrivals. They reject closed camps, transit zones, external camps in third countries and cooperation with the Libyan coast guard. Bremen should also take on a donation sponsorship for a civilian rescue ship.

The Greens want safe routes for people who flee. They are against closed camps at the EU's borders. The EU should stop working with the coast guard of Libya. Bremen should collect money for a rescue ship.

The Greens want people who have to leave their homes because of the climate crisis to receive protection in other countries. International law should be developed further for this purpose, and Bremen should push the federal government to act. Industrialized countries should keep their financial pledges to poor and heavily affected countries.

Some people have to flee because of the climate crisis. The Greens want them to get protection in other countries. For this, the rules between countries should change. Rich countries should pay poor countries the money they promised.

The Greens want to prevent discrimination in the allocation of housing. Supervisory board members and sales staff at the city-owned housing companies are to attend mandatory training. The trigger is the BREBAU case, in which prospective tenants were tagged by origin or income.

No one should be treated unfairly when looking for a home. The Greens want required training at the city-owned housing companies. They also want to look into applications without names. Researchers should study where people are treated unfairly.

The Greens reject criminalizing self-determined abortions and want a federal rule outside the criminal code. Mandatory counseling is to become a right to counseling, and the three-day waiting period is to be dropped. Access to abortion care in Bremen and Bremerhaven is to be secured.

The Greens want abortion to no longer be a crime. The federal parliament has to decide that. Counseling should be voluntary. The three-day waiting time should go. Bremen should have enough trained staff for abortions.

The Greens want a health system that takes greater account of differences in origin, age and gender. In their account, pharmacy and diagnostics have so far treated the body of white men as the standard. Research and training are to be adapted accordingly.

The Greens say medicine often follows the body of white men. That should change. Research should look more at differences between people. Doctors and nurses should learn more about this in training.

The Greens want to create dedicated services for queer people who need care. Existing elder care facilities are to be made more aware of their situation. The platform argues that many hide their identity there for fear of rejection.

The Greens want care services for queer people. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Care homes should learn more about these people. Many hide who they are there because they are afraid.

The Greens want more women in Bremen to be in paid work and able to support themselves independently. Among other things, mini-jobs are to be reduced, even small jobs made subject to social insurance, and care work better paid.

Few women in Bremen work for pay. Women there also earn much less than men. The Greens want to change this. There should be fewer mini-jobs. Child care should get better.

The Greens call for a federal equal pay law with binding rules, penalties and a right for associations to sue. They also stand by a 50 percent women's quota on supervisory and management boards of companies in which the state of Bremen holds a stake.

Women and men should get the same pay for work of equal value. The Greens want a new federal law for this. Those who break it should face penalties. In state-owned firms, half of the bosses should be women.

The Greens want to create a complaints office for students and parents who experience discrimination and give it the power to impose sanctions. The existing anti-discrimination counseling is to be reviewed and expanded if needed, and all educational staff are to receive mandatory training.

Some children are treated badly at school, for example because of where they come from. This is called discrimination. The Greens want to create an office for complaints. Children and parents can turn to it. The office should also be able to impose penalties. All school staff should get training on this.

The Greens want to modernize school toilets and replace many gender-segregated toilets with single stalls. Sex education is to be taught at all schools to a high standard and in a queer-sensitive way.

The Greens want to renew school toilets. Instead of separate toilets for girls and boys, there should often be single stalls. This should also help trans and non-binary children. Lessons about sexuality should be good everywhere. They should also take queer people into account.

The Greens want transport and city planning to deliberately take the needs of different groups in society into account. According to the platform, short, barrier-free and well-lit routes mainly benefit women who combine a job with care work.

The Greens want to plan the city for all groups. Routes should be short, bright and free of barriers. The Greens say this helps women most. Many women care for children and do the shopping besides their job. Places that feel unsafe should go away.

The Greens want flags of the queer community to fly in front of the state parliament and at city hall on two days a year. This is meant as a sign of solidarity. In the party's view, visibility in public space matters especially to young queer people and strengthens their self-acceptance.

A special flag should fly at city hall on two days a year. On May 17 it is the rainbow flag. On November 20 it is the trans flag. The Greens want to encourage queer people this way.

The Greens want the justice system to better reflect the diversity of society. To that end, the headscarf ban for female legal trainees is to be lifted, diversity is to become part of legal training, and a gender advancement plan is to be created.

The Greens want a more diverse justice system. Women training to be lawyers should be allowed to wear a headscarf. Legal training should cover diversity. A plan should support women and non-binary people.

The Greens want a public service that reflects the diversity of society. Religious and belief-based clothing as well as tattoos would be allowed in all occupational groups; in the platform's view, what matters is the quality of the work.

The Greens want more diversity in the public service. Employees should be allowed to wear religious clothing, even with a uniform. Tattoos should also be allowed if they do not violate the constitution. There should be more training against discrimination.

The Greens want to set up a central, professionally run complaints office under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) for Bremen's public service. Confirmed cases of discrimination are to be handled according to a uniform set of measures.

The Greens want a complaints office for Bremen's public agencies. Staff can go there if they are treated unfairly. There will be fixed rules for confirmed cases. The agencies should also do more against prejudice toward Sinti and Roma.

The Greens want to make sure all employees in the state of Bremen can actually use their rights under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). According to the platform, only a few companies have working complaints offices so far. At the federal level, private care work is to be added to the law as a ground of discrimination.

Companies must have a complaints office against unfair treatment. The Greens say many companies do not have a good one. The party wants to help small companies with this. The law should also protect parents and people who care for relatives.

The Greens want to apply gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting more consistently. All decisions and the allocation of money are to take the life situations of all genders into account. The procedure used for the Bremen-Fonds serves as the model.

The Greens want every decision to consider all genders. This also applies to the state's money. People should be able to see who benefits from the money. Schools and career advice should also rely less on fixed gender roles.

The Greens want to carry out the state action plan on the Istanbul Convention together with the advisory board of affected people and review it continuously. Women's shelters and child protection facilities are to get lasting funding, along with new shelter places and safe apartments.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should get enough money for the long term. There should be shelter places that are always open. Police, courts and public agencies should learn more about the issue.

The Greens want women, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people in the state of Bremen to be able to earn their own living. To that end, low-wage jobs are to be pushed back, labor market programs and daycare expanded, and the equal pay strategy carried out.

FINTA* means women, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people. They should be able to live on their own work. So the Greens want fewer badly paid jobs. There should be more flexible daycare. Equal work should get equal pay.

The Greens want to continue the state action plan against homophobia, transphobia and interphobia until 2035 and anchor it more firmly in politics and administration. A new state queer commissioner is to coordinate its implementation. Counseling services for queer people are to keep receiving support.

Bremen has a plan against hatred of queer people. The Greens want to continue this plan until 2035. A new commissioner should take care of it for the state. Counseling centers for queer people should get more money if more people come.

The Greens want to rewrite Bremen's state equality act, the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz. In the future it is to cover all gender identities and thereby advance equal treatment of all genders in the public service.

Bremen has a law on equality in the public service. The Greens want to change this law. It should then apply to all genders. This includes people who are neither women nor men.

The Greens want an anti-discrimination law for the state of Bremen that lets affected people sue for damages. In addition, a study called the Bremen Monitor is to collect experiences of discrimination so that policy rests on evidence.

The Greens want a new law against unfair treatment. The law applies to the state of Bremen. People who are treated unfairly can then sue for money. A study should also ask people in Bremen and Bremerhaven about their experiences.

The Greens want to support organized sports in drawing up prevention and anti-discrimination plans. A funding program is to bring more women into leadership roles in clubs and associations. The platform argues that sports are a particularly good place to counter homophobia, racism and the stigmatizing of people with little money.

Nobody should be treated badly in sports. The Greens want to support clubs in this. More women should lead clubs and associations. A funding program should help with that. People with disabilities should also get their own sports offers.

The Greens want to give economic policy a feminist orientation and use gender equality as an asset for the business location. Women are to be strengthened as workers and skilled staff, as founders and in leadership positions. The platform bases this on the often precarious situation of women in Bremen's labor market.

Women should have the same chances in business as men. The Greens want to support women as skilled workers and as founders. More women should become bosses. Work and family should fit together better.

The Greens want to protect people in Bremen and Bremerhaven from the effects of climate change through both climate protection and adaptation. This includes dikes against storm surges, trees to cool the cities in extreme heat, and transport routes for climate-friendly travel. Expanding renewable energy is also meant to end dependence on energy imports.

The Greens want to protect people from the effects of the climate crisis. Dikes should protect against storm floods. Trees should cool the city in hot weather. New routes should make climate-friendly travel easy. There should be more power from wind and sun.

The Greens want to switch heating to renewable energy as fast as possible, relying on district heating and heat pumps. Municipal heat planning is meant to show where and when a district heating connection will arrive. This is intended to give owners and tenants planning certainty.

The Greens want homes to be heated without oil and gas. They want more district heating and heat pumps. The cities should make a plan. The plan shows where district heating will come and when.

The Greens want to create additional state funding for energy-saving renovations in cases of social hardship. The aim is to keep high renovation costs from being passed on to tenants. Advice on renovation and saving energy is also to be expanded considerably.

Renovating a house costs a lot of money. The Greens want to give more money when people have little. Tenants should not have to pay the costs. There should also be more advice. Energy guides should help people in poorer neighborhoods save energy.

The Greens want to protect people from the health effects of hot summers with climate-adapted infrastructure and a heat action plan. Heat protection is to become mandatory at large summer events, and workplace safety rules in hot weather are to be checked more strictly.

Summers are getting hotter. That is dangerous for people's health. The Greens want a plan against heat. Authorities should warn people about heat. Big summer events must plan for heat protection.

The Greens want to convert existing buildings to be climate-neutral or climate-positive and change planning and building rules to that end. A "renovation code" (Umbauordnung) would favor existing buildings over new construction so that existing structures are preserved.

The Greens want to rebuild old buildings instead of tearing them down. The buildings should no longer harm the climate. New rules should make this easier. Bremen should push for these rules at the national level.

The Greens want all universities in the state to become climate-neutral, both in teaching and on campus. To that end, a binding sustainability strategy for all universities is to be developed and climate management made permanent.

Universities should stop harming the climate. This goes for studying and for the buildings. The Greens want a fixed plan for all universities. Climate experts should work there for the long term.

The Greens want to further speed up the energy transition in Europe and diversify international energy sources. The goal is independence from fossil fuels, especially those from Russia. In the party's view, this would also strengthen the foreign policy autonomy of Germany and the EU.

The Greens want a faster energy transition in Europe. Energy should come from more different countries. Germany should no longer depend on oil and gas from Russia. Then Russia can put less pressure on Germany.

The Greens want the state of Bremen to become climate neutral by 2038 and to carry out all recommendations of the climate inquiry commission. The administration is to get more staff, and a steering system at the top political level is to monitor CO2 savings. The climate strategy is to be written into law.

Bremen should be climate neutral by 2038. This means Bremen will then no longer harm the climate. A commission has made proposals for this. The Greens want to carry out all of them. For this, there should be more staff and fixed checks.

The Greens want a state heating law that shifts heating to district heating, local heating networks and heat pumps. Once municipal heat planning is complete, renewable heat is to become mandatory when a heating system is replaced. District heating providers are to produce almost entirely CO2-neutral heat by 2030.

The Greens want a new law on heating. Homes should stop heating with gas or oil. They should use district heating or a heat pump. District heating is heat that comes through pipes from a plant. People who put in a new heating system must follow this rule later. The party wants to help people switch.

The Greens want to expand wind power in the state of Bremen to 300 megawatts and solar power to 500 megawatts by 2030. This is meant to generate more renewable electricity within the state. Existing wind power sites are to be kept.

The Greens want more electricity from wind and sun. By 2030, Bremen should have many more wind turbines and solar panels. All places with wind turbines should stay. New and better turbines should stand there.

The Greens want to consistently apply the Klimavorbehalt (climate check) that has already been adopted. A CO2 balance is to be drawn up for all larger new projects decided by the state government and parliament. The party also plans annual targets and mandatory plans for all sectors.

The state should consider the climate in new projects. For each larger project, the CO2 output is calculated. The harm to the climate is also counted in money. Every area should get targets each year.

The Greens want to open up more sites for wind power and to approve new commercial zones in the city of Bremen only if their wind potential is fully used. Land is also to be made available for storage, grid lines and other energy transition facilities, combined with ecological compensation.

The Greens want more wind turbines in Bremen. New business zones should only be allowed with wind turbines. The Greens want to check all possible sites again. Storage and power lines also need space. Harm to nature should be made up for elsewhere.

The Greens want a solar mandate for roofs on new buildings and roof renovations, plus photovoltaics above larger parking lots. By 2030, Bremen's roofs are to carry systems with about 500 megawatts of capacity. Ground-mounted systems and fewer hurdles for balcony solar units are also planned.

The Greens want many more solar panels in Bremen. New houses and new roofs must have solar panels. Large parking lots should get solar panels too. People will get advice on this. Small solar units for balconies should become easier.

The Greens want the state of Bremen to lead with its own buildings and make them climate-neutral by 2035. Strict energy standards are to apply to renovations and new construction, and the public housing companies are to meet higher standards as well.

All public buildings should be climate-neutral by 2035. That means they no longer harm the climate. New buildings should be made of wood and use little energy. New heating systems will no longer run on gas or oil. Public housing companies should also renovate better.

The Greens want to advance energy retrofits of private residential and commercial buildings with subsidy programs, loans and more advice. The stated reason is that heating energy use must fall because electricity and district heating are limited.

Private houses should need less energy for heating. The Greens want to give money and advice for this. Poor older people should get special loans. They do not have to pay these back during their lifetime. Energy advisers should visit every home.

The Greens want to fund neighborhood climate projects permanently and set up contact points in every district. Publicly owned companies are to be required to become more sustainable, and the state is to get its own sustainability strategy.

The Greens want climate action in every neighborhood. There should be advice, courses and repair cafés. In a repair café, people fix broken things together. Public companies must do more for the environment and for people. Bremen should get a plan for sustainability.

The Greens want to launch a peatland protection program for Bremen that identifies suitable areas for rewetting. The program justifies this by saying peat soils store far more CO2 per area than forests.

Peat bogs store a lot of CO2. So the Greens want to protect bogs better. Dry bogs should become wet again. The state should buy such land or pay farmers. The Fehrmoor bog in Bremerhaven should be protected.

The Greens want to implement and tighten the environmental rules for new construction known as the "Bremer Standard." Every new building would need a green facade, which the platform says is inexpensive, cools, stores water and offers habitat for insects.

The Greens want stricter rules for new buildings. Every new building should have plants on its walls. New buildings should cope better with heavy rain. New neighborhoods should have enough green space for everyone.

The Greens want to make Bremen and Bremerhaven a central part of a European hydrogen infrastructure. Plans include electrolysis plants, a pipeline and the conversion of gas networks, for which the party pledges large public investments. Hydrogen is to be used on a large scale only where electrification is not possible.

The Greens want to build plants and pipelines for hydrogen. Hydrogen is a gas that can store energy. The steel plant, ships and planes should use it. The party wants to spend a lot of public money on this. Hydrogen should only help where electricity is not enough.

The Greens want public land in the city of Bremen to go to companies only under strict climate and environmental criteria. Any firm that wants to set up or expand would have to present a plan for becoming climate neutral by 2038 at the latest.

The city of Bremen gives land to businesses. The Greens want strict climate rules for this. Businesses should show how they become climate neutral by 2038. New business buildings should get solar panels.

The Greens want to help wind energy in Bremerhaven recover after, by their account, thousands of jobs were lost there. They rely on federal and EU support and on a structural policy that gives special consideration to wind industry locations.

Bremerhaven had many jobs in wind energy. Many of them were lost. The Greens want the industry to grow there again. Germany and the EU should keep supporting wind energy.

The Greens want to build up expertise in Bremerhaven for repowering and recycling offshore wind turbines. This is meant to let the city benefit from the expected expansion of offshore wind. They reject building a new open harbor basin in the Weser on ecological grounds.

Many wind turbines stand out at sea. Old turbines must later be taken down or replaced. The Greens want Bremerhaven to do this work. That should bring jobs to the city. The Greens do not want a new harbor basin in the Weser.

The Greens want to switch ships, ferries and vehicles in the port from diesel to climate-friendly propulsion. All of Bremen's ferries are to become climate neutral as quickly as possible. Shipbuilding is meant to benefit from retrofitting existing ships and from new propulsion technologies.

Many ships and vehicles in the port run on diesel. The Greens want to change that. They should run on electricity or other clean engines. All ferries in Bremen should become climate neutral. Climate neutral means they no longer harm the climate. This should also bring new orders to shipyards.

The Greens want more trash cans, more frequent emptying, public information and more staff to tackle litter on streets and squares. Those responsible should be penalized consistently; temporary video surveillance would be examined at badly affected spots.

The Greens want clean streets and squares. There should be more trash cans. More staff should clear illegal dumps. People who dump trash should pay a higher fine. Cameras should be considered in some places.

The Greens want to adapt dikes and barriers to the effects of climate change and turn Bremen and Bremerhaven into sponge cities. Rainwater is to be held in the cities so it can seep away and evaporate. A heat protection plan is also planned.

The Greens want to protect Bremen from floods. Dikes should become stronger. Rainwater should soak into the ground in the city. For this, less ground should be covered with asphalt. There should be a protection plan for hot summers.

The Greens want to give public green spaces more weight in urban planning and gear their upkeep more toward biodiversity. The platform justifies this with the importance of green space for health and well-being, especially in poorer districts with few parks and gardens.

The Greens want to protect parks and green spaces in the city. The upkeep should help animals and plants. The city's green space agency should get more money and staff. Districts with little green space should get fixed minimum amounts.

The Greens want to issue a new tree protection ordinance and raise the number of street trees in Bremen to 100,000 by 2040. The platform sees trees as highly valuable in the climate crisis because they provide shade and shape the cityscape.

The Greens want to protect city trees better. There should be a new tree protection rule. Anyone who cuts down a tree must plant more than one new tree. By 2040, Bremen should have 100,000 street trees.

Because of longer dry spells, the Greens want to use water more sparingly and set up water cycles within Bremen. The city would in future obtain a third of its drinking water itself, up from 15 percent today.

Climate change brings more dry periods. So the Greens want to save water. Rainwater should be used more often. Bremen should get more drinking water from its own land.

The Greens want to use the upcoming re-tendering of the water concessions to gain more say at the utility hanseWasser. This is meant to let the public sector keep an eye on prices and respond better to water crises.

The Greens want more influence over the company hanseWasser. The water contracts will soon be awarded again. The Greens want to use this chance. The city should then control prices. Money from the contracts should pay for cleaner water.

The Greens want the city of Bremen to stop paving over additional land on balance by 2030. Anyone who seals new ground would pay into a fund that finances unsealing elsewhere.

Sealing means building or paving over soil. The Greens want to limit this. Anyone who seals soil should pay into a fund. That money frees up soil somewhere else. From 2030, Bremen should seal no extra soil on balance.

The Greens want to raise the Weser dike on the Neustadt side as a top priority and revise all flood protection plans in both cities. The platform points out that about 90 percent of the state's area is at risk of flooding and that climate change is making the danger worse.

Bremen is at high risk of flooding. The Greens want to make the dike in the Neustadt district higher. Other flood plans should also get better. Nobody should build in flood protection areas.

The Greens reject new deepening and straightening of waterways, including deepening the Lower Weser. According to the platform, deeper and straighter rivers make floods more dangerous and cause groundwater to drop. Instead, waterways would be restored to a more natural state and made more accessible to people.

The Greens do not want to make the Lower Weser deeper. Deep, straight rivers make floods more dangerous. Rivers should become more natural again. People should get better access to the riverbanks.

The Greens want to enlarge protected areas so that they meet European requirements and build a habitat network in both cities by 2030. The reason given is endangered meadow birds, ditch fish, insects and plants in the grassland-and-ditch landscapes.

Rare birds, fish, insects and plants live in Bremen. The Greens want to protect more areas for nature. By 2030, the protected areas should be linked. Such a link is called a habitat network.

The Greens want to improve urban air quality and are pushing at the federal level to turn low-emission zones into zero-emission zones. In the next legislative term, the technical and legal groundwork is to be laid. The platform points to the EU limits for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter as binding health protection.

City air should get cleaner. The Greens want zero-emission zones. These are areas where vehicles may not give off exhaust. Electric vehicles drive there. Companies should also give off fewer pollutants and smells.

The Greens want to make microchipping and registration mandatory for dogs and cats and introduce a competence certificate for dog owners. The Bremen animal shelter is to get secure funding, and the right of animal welfare groups to sue is to be widened. More pigeon lofts are planned for city pigeons.

Dogs and cats should get a chip. Owners then have to register their animals. People who keep a dog should take a test. The Bremen animal shelter should get steady money. Every district should have houses for pigeons.

The Greens want to tighten hunting law: fewer species that may be hunted and a ban on driven hunts and trapping. A rescue station for wild animals is also to be set up in the state of Bremen. At the federal level too, they back a ban on wild animals in circuses.

The Greens want to protect wild animals better. Hunters should be allowed to hunt fewer kinds of animals. Some ways of hunting should be banned. Hurt wild animals should get help at a station. Circuses should no longer have wild animals.

The Greens want to end animal experiments at research institutions in the state of Bremen and use every legal option to do so. The platform points above all to experiments on monkeys at the University of Bremen. They also want animal welfare strengthened at the federal level.

In Bremen, researchers do tests on animals. For example on monkeys at the university. The Greens want to end these tests. They want to use every law they can for this.

The Greens want to restructure the economy so that materials stay in circulation and less waste is produced. Bremen's organic waste is to be turned into biogas within the city, and more recycled materials are to be used in construction.

The Greens want less trash and less use of raw materials. Things should last longer and be used again. Organic waste should become biogas in Bremen. Building should use more recycled materials.

The Greens consider the planned deepening of the outer Weser unnecessary and want to avoid it; they reject deepening the lower Weser. The platform cites the intended port cooperation with Wilhelmshaven and ecological concerns. For material dredged from rivers, they call for a joint strategy of the northern German states.

There are plans to make the Weser river deeper for big ships. The Greens want to avoid this. They say it harms nature and is not needed. They also want a shared plan for the mud dug out of rivers. The northern states should make this plan together.

The Greens want to strengthen regional production and marketing to counter the decline in farms, and to expand organic farming. Alongside the existing grazing premium, a herder premium would be introduced for keeping animals solely for landscape care and nature conservation.

Bremen has fewer and fewer farms. The Greens want to support local farms. There should be more organic farming. Farmers should get money when their animals look after the landscape. This is called a herder premium.

The Greens want farm subsidies to reward services for the environment, the climate and animal welfare instead of being paid mainly by acreage. They plan to push at the federal and EU level for a points-based "common good premium." The platform calls this a central building block for funding the shift to a different kind of agriculture.

Today farmers get money mostly for the size of their land. The Greens want to change this. Farmers should get money for protecting nature and animals. There should be a new premium for this. A premium is a payment as a reward.

The Greens want to set up a funding program with Lower Saxony for growing and processing (organic) vegetables and fruit in the region. They also want to support alternatives to dairy and meat production, more climate-friendly feeding and water protection. The platform cites climate adaptation and greater independence from global supply chains as reasons.

The Greens want more vegetables and fruit from the region. There should be funding for this, together with Lower Saxony. Farmers should choose to feed animals without soy from overseas. Groundwater should get cleaner. Farmers get advice on how to do this.

The Greens want all public institutions to offer wholesome, organically produced vegetarian and vegan meals at fair prices. In hospitals, the share of organic food is to rise to 100 percent by 2027. The platform justifies this with health and the climate targets.

Public cafeterias should serve healthy food. The food should be organic and have little meat. It should not cost much. Hospitals should serve only organic food by 2027. Schools and daycare centers should get their own gardens.

The Greens want to reduce car traffic in Bremen substantially to free up space for trees, play areas, cafés and benches. They cite the parliament's climate strategy, which calls for one-third fewer registered motor vehicles by 2030 and two-thirds fewer by 2038. Downtown is to be car-free by 2030.

The Greens want far fewer cars in Bremen. By 2030 there should be one-third fewer cars. By 2038 there should be two-thirds fewer. Downtown should have no cars by 2030. This should make more room for people and trees.

The Greens want to complete the network of premium bike routes by 2027 and close gaps in the cycling network. Five new bridges for pedestrians and cyclists are to be planned and started. More planning staff are meant to speed up delivery.

The Greens want more and better bike paths. A network of high-quality bike routes should be done by 2027. Five new bridges for walkers and bikes should be built. The city should hire more planners for this.

The Greens want to gradually convert curbside parking in neighborhoods close to the city center to other uses. This is meant to create more room for cycling, walking, children's play and green space. The platform argues that streets are not there for cars alone.

The Greens want to use curbside parking spots differently. This applies to areas near the city center. There should be more room for bikes and walkers. Children and green spaces should get more room too.

The Greens want to turn Bremen's Office for Roads and Traffic into an "Office for Transport Transition and Sustainable Mobility." It is to coordinate and carry out the shift in mobility and redistribute public space.

Bremen has an office for roads and traffic. The Greens want to give it a new focus. It will get a new name. It will work on climate-friendly transport.

Under the "Vision 0" principle, the Greens want to reach a point where no one dies in traffic. Sidewalks are to be free of obstacles, more 30 km/h areas and play streets created, and intersections made safer. At the federal level, the party advocates 30 km/h as the general rule in cities.

The Greens want no more deaths in traffic. Cars should no longer park on sidewalks. There should be more 30 km/h zones. Intersections should be safer. Paths and stops should be barrier-free.

The Greens want to make the trip to work less dependent on cars. They plan express buses to business parks, rail links for new business parks and better bike paths leading there. The party also backs the 49-euro ticket.

Many people drive to work. The Greens want to change that. Fast buses should go to business parks. New business parks should get a rail link. The 49-euro ticket should come quickly.

The Greens want buses and trams in Bremen to run more often and the network to reach further into residential areas. By 2027, major routes are to have service at least every 7 minutes. Prices for the youth, student and social tickets are to stay stable.

Buses and trams should run more often. On big routes, one should come every 7 minutes. Every residential area should have a stop nearby. Small buses should come on request. Some tickets should not get more expensive.

The Greens want to expand the public charging network for electric cars and set up small mobility hubs across the city. These would bundle car sharing, rental bikes, cargo bikes, e-scooters and charging points. Curbside parking spaces will be converted for this purpose.

The Greens want more charging points for electric cars. There should be one point for every 10 electric cars. Small stations should offer shared cars, rental bikes and scooters. Some curbside parking spots will go for this.

The Greens want the Regio-S-Bahn regional rail network to run more often and connect better with local transit. This is meant to make it easier for commuters to switch from the car. Regional bus service to neighboring towns is also to grow.

Many people commute to Bremen. The Greens want regional trains to run more often. A train should come at least every 30 minutes. There should be new stops. Buses should reach nearby towns every hour.

The Greens announce a major cycling initiative so that by 2038 a quarter of all kilometers traveled in Bremen can be covered by bike. It includes bike highways, closing gaps in the network, protected bike lanes and more bike parking. A dedicated task force is to carry out the plans.

The Greens want to do much more for bikes. There should be fast bike routes in several directions. Gaps in the bike network should be closed. There should be more safe bike parking. A special team should do the work.

The Greens want to expand transfer facilities for cars and bikes. People who live near the city center but still need a car are to keep it at park-and-ride lots in the future. Every train station and every larger stop is to have bike-and-ride.

The Greens want more park-and-ride lots. You leave your car there and continue by bus or train. Train stations should have bike parking. You should be able to lock these bike spaces.

The Greens want to double the number of shared cars in the state of Bremen to around 1,000 by 2026. This is meant to reduce the number of private cars, which the platform calls a prerequisite for meeting climate targets. Bike sharing is also to grow with public funding.

With car sharing, many people share one car. The Greens want twice as many of these cars. By 2026 there should be about 1,000. This should mean fewer private cars in the city. Rental bikes should be free for the first half hour.

The Greens want transport planning to follow transport goals rather than measured demand. New residential and business areas are to be approved only with infrastructure that makes cars largely unnecessary. The party rejects new major arterial roads and highway expansions, except for the A281.

The Greens want to plan differently. Good routes for buses, bikes and walkers should come first. Then people will use them. New areas should work almost without cars. The Greens do not want new big roads for cars.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for reduced-price versions of the 49-euro ticket for certain groups. They also want a simple, affordable fare system in the Bremen/Lower Saxony transit association. The platform points to the 9-euro ticket, which it says showed how much easy boarding helps people get around without a car.

The Greens want the 49-euro ticket to be cheaper for some people. This includes retirees, school students and university students. People with little money should be able to afford it too. Fares for buses and trains in the region should become simpler.

The Greens want a mobility law under which parking on public land in the city of Bremen generally costs money, initially around 30 euros a month. The revenue is meant to pay for expanding public transit through 2027 and for services such as car sharing. At the same time, parking on sidewalks is to be stopped consistently.

Parking on the street in Bremen should cost money. The Greens name about 30 euros a month. They want to use the money for more buses and trams. Cars should no longer park on sidewalks. Otherwise they get towed.

The Greens want to introduce public transit without tickets in the state of Bremen. It is to be paid for by a transport levy on all residents, commuters and visitors. This is meant to secure transit expansion even as the number of parking spaces, and with it parking revenue, declines.

The Greens want buses and trams without tickets. In return, everyone in Bremen pays a fee each month. Commuters and tourists pay something too. Then everyone can simply get on.

The Greens want to recruit more staff for transport planning and public transit. They plan new degree and continuing-education programs, a training drive and better working conditions in transit. The party's reasoning is that more infrastructure is to be built in eight years than in the past thirty years combined.

Bremen needs more skilled workers for more buses and trams. So the Greens want to train more people. There should be a new degree in transport planning. Jobs in public transit should pay better.

The Greens want to switch public transit to climate-neutral electric drives and stop buying new buses that run on fossil fuels. The rail network is to grow, including a tram line through the Woltmershausen district. E-scooters are to be parked only in fixed spots in the future.

Bremen should buy only electric buses from now on. The Greens also want more trams. A new line should run through Woltmershausen. E-scooters should only be parked in fixed spots.

The Greens want to strengthen rail and night trains to other European countries so that flights within Europe become unnecessary. Bremerhaven is to be connected permanently to the ICE high-speed network. Bremen is also to remain an aerospace hub and become a model site for cutting CO2 in aviation.

The Greens want more trains and night trains in Europe. Then fewer flights within Europe are needed. Bremerhaven should get ICE trains for good. Bremen should show how flying can be better for the climate.

The Greens want to end parking on the main streets of Bremen's Viertel district to gain room for pedestrians, cycling, outdoor dining and trees. Outdoor dining on parking spaces, which emerged during the pandemic, should remain possible permanently.

In Bremen's Viertel district, cars park on the main streets. The Greens want to end that. There should be room for walking and cycling. Restaurants should be allowed to put tables on parking spaces. This should also apply in other districts.

The Greens want to gradually clear downtown Bremen of moving and parked cars by 2030. They cite climate protection and more room for pedestrians, greenery, culture, and restaurants. Exceptions are planned for emergency services, deliveries, tradespeople, and people with limited mobility, among others.

The Greens want no more cars in downtown Bremen by 2030. This should make more room for people and trees. It should also help the climate. Ambulances, deliveries, and people with disabilities get exceptions.

The Greens want downtown to be reached mainly by public transit, bike, and on foot, and to link it more closely with neighboring districts. Walking and cycling routes are to be expanded and new bridges built. People driving in from farther away are to park outside the center and switch to transit.

The Greens want better routes into downtown. There should be more walking paths and bike paths. New bridges should cross the Weser river. Drivers should park outside and continue by bus or tram.

The Greens want to examine whether the elevated road at Breitenweg still makes sense if car traffic in the city center is to be reduced. They consider the Remberti roundabout oversized and want to redesign the area.

There is a raised road for cars at Breitenweg. The Greens want to check if Bremen still needs it. The Remberti roundabout is very large. The Greens think it is too big. They want to use the space in a new way.

The Greens want to rebuild the Domsheide square so the stop can handle more passengers. All trams would stop at one shared stop in front of the Glocke concert hall, which the party sees as the option with the fewest barriers.

Domsheide is an important square for trams. The Greens want to rebuild the stop there. All trams should stop at one place. This makes it easier for people with disabilities. The trams should also run more quietly.

The Greens want to reduce noise from road traffic. Highway sections running through residential areas would get a nighttime speed limit of 80 km/h, and at the federal level they back 30 km/h as the general rule in cities. Structural noise protection and enforcement checks are added to this.

The Greens want less noise from cars. On highways in residential areas, the night limit should be 80 km/h. In cities, 30 km/h should be the rule everywhere. The Greens push for this at the federal level. Daycare centers and schools on big roads get noise protection.

The Greens want no takeoffs or landings at Bremen Airport between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., except for ambulance flights. Exceptions for delayed planes are to be narrowed further. Only especially quiet aircraft would be allowed in the hours just before and after.

Bremen Airport should be quiet at night. No planes should fly from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Only flights for sick people are allowed. Early in the morning and late in the evening, only very quiet planes may fly.

The Greens want more freight to and from the ports to move by train and ship rather than by truck. To that end, rail lines are to be expanded and electrified. The platform sees this as a competitive advantage and as a lever for climate and environmental protection.

Goods reach the port by truck, train or ship. The Greens want more trains and ships and fewer trucks. Rail lines should be expanded for this. Trains there should run on electricity. This should help the climate and the port.

The Greens want to promote digital and media literacy from daycare to old age and anchor it across all government departments. In the program's view, handling media critically and safely is now a prerequisite for staying informed, participating and taking part in society.

Many things happen online today. The Greens want everyone to be able to use media well. This should apply to children and to older people too. Schools should prepare young people for topics like fake news. There should also be programs outside of school.

The Greens want to offer more services of the state and its two cities online and to simplify administrative procedures. Citizen services are to be built around users' needs and offer appointments within two weeks.

The Greens want to put more government services online. People should have to fill out fewer forms. You should get an appointment within two weeks. Offices should write clearly and in several languages.

The Greens want to equip public agencies with open-source software wherever possible and make more non-personal data publicly available. One reason given is a critical view of the influence of large corporations. The state is also to inform the public more clearly and openly.

The Greens want government offices to use open-source software. That is software whose code anyone can look at. Government data that is not about individual people should be public. Forms should also come in plain language.

The Greens want an IT security strategy for the state of Bremen that takes threats from cybercrime into account. In addition, a "responsible disclosure" program is to be created through which security flaws in government IT can be reported with legal certainty. In the Greens' view, finding and reporting such flaws should not be a crime.

The Greens want to make government computers safer. There should be a plan for the state of Bremen. People should be able to report security gaps. A safe reporting platform is planned for this. Anyone who reports a gap should not be punished.

The Greens want to review how well digitalization support for small and mid-sized companies works and adjust it quickly where needed. According to the platform, these firms often lack the staff, time and money to digitize their processes.

Small firms often have little time and money for going digital. The Greens want to check the help for this. If needed, the help should get better fast. More firms should learn about the help.

The Greens want to quickly draw up a digitalization strategy for the ports and carry it out together with businesses. The platform justifies this with the lead that Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg have gained. At the same time, workers are to gain digital skills to secure their career prospects.

The Greens want a plan for more digital technology in the ports. Other ports like Rotterdam or Hamburg are already ahead. The government and companies should carry out the plan together. Workers should learn how to use digital tools. This should keep their job chances good.

The Greens want public spaces to be safe for everyone. Police, fire services and emergency medical services should have enough personnel and be able to respond quickly. Disaster response should also work reliably when it is needed.

The Greens want safe streets and squares for everyone. Police, fire services and ambulance services should have enough staff. They should arrive quickly when people need them. Disaster response should also work well.

The Greens want to prepare Bremen better for crises such as floods or cyberattacks. A risk analysis is to show where action is needed, and fallback levels are to be defined for critical infrastructure.

The Greens want Bremen to be better prepared for emergencies. These include floods and attacks on computer systems. A study should show where Bremen is weak. Important facilities should keep working in an emergency.

The Greens want to grow Bremen's police force to 2,900 officers by 2025 and keep the police stations in the city's districts. The police are to be easy to reach in person and online, and to patrol more often on foot and by bicycle.

The Greens want more police officers in Bremen. There should be 2,900 by 2025. Police stations in the neighborhoods should stay. More officers should patrol on foot and by bike.

The Greens want to give the police more money for staff wherever new or more complex tasks arise. Backlogged cases are to be cleared, overtime reduced and working conditions improved. Police work is also to become more digital.

The Greens want more money for police staff. This applies where the police get new tasks. Old cases should be handled faster. Officers should have less overtime. The police should get modern technology.

The Greens want regular police patrol units to wear body cameras as a matter of routine. According to the program, the cameras protect officers from attacks and reduce police misconduct. The Greens reject tasers for patrol duty.

The Greens want more body cameras for the police. The cameras should record attacks and police mistakes. The Greens are against tasers on patrol. A taser is a weapon that gives electric shocks.

The Greens want to add staff to the police, the public prosecutor's office and the prison service to fight organized crime. A ban on cash payments for real estate and a register of the actual owners are meant to curb money laundering.

The Greens want more staff to fight organized crime groups. Nobody should be allowed to buy houses with cash. A register should show who really owns a house. This is meant to stop money laundering. Money laundering means: criminals hide where money comes from.

The Greens want better protection against misuse of register information for people who are often threatened because of volunteer work or their job. They should find it easier to block their address in the residents' register and the vehicle register. The program argues that committed people might otherwise withdraw.

Some people are threatened because of their job or volunteer work. The Greens want to protect these people better. Offices should not simply give out their address. Blocking the address should be easier. Flyers should no longer have to show a private address.

The Greens want to step up prosecution of hate and incitement on the internet. To that end, central investigation units, an online police patrol and an expanded online police station are to be created. Those affected are to get independent counseling.

The Greens want to fight online hate more strongly. Special units at the police and prosecutor's office should investigate. The police should also be visible on social networks. Reporting crimes online and by phone should be easier. Victims should get counseling.

The Greens want everyone to be able to turn to the police without fear. A study on structural racism, receipts for every identity check and more diversity among police staff are meant to contribute to this. A dedicated crisis intervention team is planned for people in mental health crises.

The Greens want more trust in the police. A study should look at racism in the police and fire department. Anyone who is checked should always get a receipt stating the reason. The police should become more diverse. There should be a special team for people in a mental crisis.

The Greens want to broaden the Opferanlaufstellengesetz (law on victim contact points), which has provided a right to counseling since 2020. Support organizations are to be allowed to reach out to victims on their own initiative more often. According to the program, many crime victims currently do not seek help out of ignorance or uncertainty.

The Greens want better help for victims of crime. Support services should be allowed to contact victims themselves. Many victims do not get help so far. People who speak little German should also get help.

The Greens want to secure enough staff and better working conditions at the Bremen fire department, which they say is needed more often because of the climate crisis. Plans include a new station in the south of Bremen, newer vehicles for the volunteer fire brigades and better benefits for surviving dependents. Cases of racism and misogyny in the fire department are to be investigated further.

The Greens want enough staff at the fire department. Working there should get better. A new fire station should be built in the south of Bremen. Volunteer fire brigades should get new vehicles. Racism in the fire department should be cleared up.

The Greens want to extend bans on firecrackers and offer public professional fireworks and laser shows instead. This is meant to ease the burden on the fire department and ambulance service on New Year's Eve. The program also cites the environment, health and animal welfare as reasons.

The Greens want to ban firecrackers in more places. Instead there should be public fireworks run by professionals. Laser shows are also planned. Firefighters and paramedics should have fewer call-outs on New Year's Eve. This should also help the environment and animals.

The Greens want to extend the siren network so that all of Bremen and Bremerhaven is covered. They also want authorities to be better prepared for disasters, including power outages and attacks on digital networks.

The Greens want to put up more sirens. People should hear them everywhere in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Authorities should prepare better for emergencies. This includes long power outages.

The Greens want Jewish people in Bremen to live safely and move freely everywhere, including when wearing visible Jewish symbols. To that end, police and prosecutors are to be better trained, responsibilities clarified and prevention expanded.

Jewish people should live safely in Bremen. They should be able to wear their symbols openly. Police and prosecutors should learn more about hatred of Jews. There should be more prevention work.

The Greens want to give the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) no new powers and to abolish the current system of paid informants in the area of right-wing extremism. Oversight of the service is to be expanded through an independent commission.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence service. The Greens do not want to give it new powers. Paid informants in the far-right scene should no longer exist in this form. An independent body should check the service more closely.

The Greens want to increase staffing for the Ordnungsdienst (municipal public order service) and for traffic enforcement. Around Bremen's main station, the quality of public space and the sense of safety are to improve again, including through safe spaces for staying and for drug consumption.

The Greens want more staff for the public order service. Traffic enforcement should also get more jobs. People should feel safe again at the main station. There should be safe rooms to stay in.

The Greens want to remove minor offenses from criminal law so that courts and prosecutors can focus on what the party sees as more important matters. This includes riding without a ticket, dumpster diving and unlawful residence; cannabis is to be sold in a state-controlled market.

The Greens want to stop punishing small offenses. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. People who cannot pay a fine should not go to prison. They should get debt counseling. Cannabis should be sold in a market the state controls.

The Greens reject remote searches of devices, state trojans and biometric surveillance systems. Existing video surveillance is to be reviewed for effectiveness, cost and proportionality.

The Greens do not want state trojans. These are programs the state uses to read phones in secret. They also reject surveillance with face recognition. They want to check whether video surveillance works.

The Greens want to introduce a state rehabilitation law to improve the prospects of people released from prison and prevent reoffending. This comes with digital access for prisoners, more open custody, and better addiction and health care in prison.

The Greens want a new law for the time after prison. It should help people not to commit crimes again. Prisoners should be able to use the internet and e-mail under supervision. Prisons should offer better help with addiction.

The Greens call for a plan to better protect houses of worship in Bremen and Bremerhaven and to raise awareness among security agencies and the judiciary. They want to fight antisemitism, make Jewish culture more visible and keep supporting exchange between religions.

Churches, mosques and synagogues should be better protected. The Greens want a plan for this. Police and courts should pay more attention to the issue. The party wants to support Jewish life in Bremen. Talks between religions should also keep getting money.

The Greens want to put more money and staff into cleaning, security, and on-site contact persons around Bremen's main train station. Targeted checks are meant to curb drug dealing. The station is to become a transit hub where people like to spend time.

The Greens want to improve the area around Bremen's main station. More staff should work there on cleaning and safety. Checks should reduce drug dealing. Everyone should feel safe there.

The Greens want to pursue their freedom of assembly law, which they call the most liberal in Germany. Conditions and bans on demonstrations are to be the exception, and police are to be allowed to film less. Covering one's face at a protest would no longer be a crime but an administrative offense.

The Greens want a new law for protests. Bans and conditions should be rare. Police should film less. Some people cover their face at protests. That should no longer be a crime, only a minor offense.

The Greens want police protection dogs to be kept permanently out of rallies and large events. Their use there is currently suspended for the time being. The platform cites the stress on the animals and an unnecessary risk to demonstrators.

The police in Bremen have protection dogs. Right now they do not use the dogs at protests. The Greens want it to stay that way. The dogs have a lot of stress there. The dogs are a risk for people at the protest.

Transport projects that matter beyond a single district are to be decided by the Stadtbürgerschaft (city parliament) after the district councils have been consulted. This is meant to ensure that key traffic corridors can be upgraded and overarching climate goals met.

Some transport projects affect several districts. The city parliament should decide on these. The district councils can give their view first. This should help important projects succeed.

The Greens want to make the public sector more attractive and more resilient in crises and to invest in modernizing the administration. Good pay, up-to-date equipment and flexible working hours are meant to help attract qualified staff. The administration is to shift from thinking in terms of jurisdiction to a culture of service.

The Greens want people to enjoy working for the state. So there should be good pay and good equipment. Working hours should become more flexible. One example is the four-day week. Public offices should work together better.

The Greens want to make public-sector work more flexible, for example through shared leadership positions and self-organized teams. They also plan a long-term strategy to address the shortage of skilled workers in the public sector.

The Greens want to change how people work in government offices. Two people should be able to share one leadership job. Teams should be able to plan their own work. The Greens also want to check how many skilled workers will be missing in 2030.

The Greens want to expand prevention work against extremism and regard the far right as the greatest threat to democracy. They plan support for schools, a counseling service on conspiracy myths and more research on hostility to democracy.

The Greens want to do more against extremism. Teachers should get help. There should be a counseling service about conspiracy myths. These are false stories about secret powers. The University of Bremen should do more research on this.

The Greens want to give courts and prosecutors more staff so that cases are concluded faster and the backlog shrinks. The justice system is also to become more child-friendly, and victims are to receive more support during trials.

The Greens want more staff for the courts. Then rulings come faster. The courts should deal better with children. Victims should get more support during a trial.

The Greens want to remove the word "race" from Bremen's state constitution and instead enshrine protection against racist discrimination. Citizens are to be able to enforce their fundamental rights under the state constitution before the Staatsgerichtshof (state constitutional court).

The Greens want to delete the word "race" from the state constitution. It should say instead that the state protects against racism. People should be able to claim their basic rights in the state constitutional court. That is the highest court of the state of Bremen.

The Greens still want women and men to be equally represented in Bremen's state parliament, the Bürgerschaft. They stick to this even though a legal opinion finds parity rules incompatible with Bremen's election law. In the party's view, diversity in parliament leads to better decisions.

Bremen's parliament should have as many women as men. The Greens still want to reach this goal. A legal report says this does not fit Bremen's election law. The Greens keep their goal anyway.

The Greens want to scrap the fee charged at the registry office for formally leaving a church. Leaving is also to become possible online. The party says this strengthens the free choice for or against belonging to a religion.

Today, people pay a fee at the registry office to leave the church. The Greens want to end this fee. People should also be able to leave online. Everyone should decide freely about their religion.

The Greens want to reform the Bremische Bürgerschaft (Bremen's state parliament) so that it can work more effectively. The Deputationen (committees close to the administration) are to become regular parliamentary committees, and the parliament is to shrink permanently. It is also to become visible who contributed to drafting laws.

The Bürgerschaft is Bremen's parliament. The Greens want to rebuild it. It should work better and get smaller. People should be able to watch meetings online. People should see who helped write a law.

The Greens want to give the Beiräte (elected neighborhood councils) more staff and funding. Members are to be able to pause their mandate for a time so that more people feel able to take on such a volunteer office. The queer policy advisory council is also to be upgraded.

Beiräte are elected councils in Bremen's neighborhoods. The Greens want to give them more money and staff. Members should be able to take a break. Another person fills in during that time. Pay per meeting should rise from 25 to 30 euros.

The Greens want to lower the voting age in Bremen to 14 and the age for standing as a candidate to 16. They argue that young people live longest with the consequences of political decisions and are outnumbered by older voters.

The Greens want young people to vote from age 14. From age 16 they should be able to run for office too. The party says politics affects young people for a long time. Every district should also get a youth parliament.

The Greens want to use the Bundesrat to give everyone whose life is centered in Bremen the right to vote in local and state elections. They also want elections to be easier to access, for example through barrier-free polling places and multilingual election mail.

The Greens want everyone who lives in Bremen to be able to vote there. That includes people without a German passport. Polling places should be easy to reach for everyone. Election mail should come in several languages and in plain language.

The Greens want to quickly put the results of the statewide engagement strategy into practice and make volunteering more visible and accessible. This includes the volunteer card, training, and a higher tax-free volunteer allowance at the federal level.

Many people in Bremen help others for free. The Greens want to give this work more recognition. The volunteer card with its discounts should stay and become better known. Volunteers should get good, low-cost training.

The Greens propose making May 8 and March 8 public holidays in Bremen. They justify this with the historical importance of both days.

The Greens want two new public holidays in Bremen. The first is May 8. On that day Nazi rule ended. The second is March 8, Women's Day.

The Greens want to convert the ports in Bremerhaven that currently belong to the city of Bremen into ports of the state. In the platform's view, it is an artificial situation for one city to hold sovereign territory inside another. The change is also meant to improve relations between Bremen and Bremerhaven.

Some ports in Bremerhaven belong to the city of Bremen. The Greens want to change that. The ports should belong to the state instead. This should improve relations between the two cities.

The Greens condemn Russia's attack on Ukraine and back military aid, including heavy weapons. They consider the sanctions against Russia right, even though these burden Germany and the EU.

Russia attacked Ukraine. The Greens condemn this war. They support helping Ukraine with weapons too. The penalties against Russia should stay. Poor people in Europe should get help with the effects.

The Greens want to deepen and fund Bremen's existing city partnerships and set up a new one with the Odesa district. The partnerships are meant to advance democracy, peace, human rights, and climate action.

Bremen has partner cities in many countries. The Greens want to strengthen these ties and spend more on them. The Odesa district in Ukraine should become a new partner. Bremen should also help groups under pressure in its partner cities.

The Greens want to convert the buildings of cultural institutions to be climate neutral. In their view, the ecological transition is not only a matter of technology but also of culture and aesthetics.

Theaters, museums and other cultural buildings should no longer harm the climate. The Greens want to convert these buildings. They say climate protection is also a question of culture. Bremen should take part in this debate.

The Greens want cultural offerings to reach people of every age, gender, level of education and neighborhood. Cultural education, events in unusual places and culture in the districts are meant to help. A culture ticket for apprentices and longer library opening hours are also planned.

All people should be able to enjoy culture. There should be culture in every neighborhood. There should also be events in parks or in nursing homes. Apprentices should get a cheap culture ticket. Libraries should be able to open on Sundays too.

The Greens want libraries to be accessible for longer, including on Sundays and outside regular opening hours. Families and shift workers, among others, are meant to benefit. A new branch of the city library is to be set up in Bremen-Blumenthal.

The Greens want libraries to be open longer. They should also open on Sundays. This helps families and shift workers. Blumenthal should get a new library.

The Greens want to make culture easier to access and create cultural centers in every district, for example by opening up school facilities. Cultural funding is to be guided more strongly by whether offerings reach many different groups of people.

The Greens want culture in every district. Schools should open their rooms for this. The city should ask people which offerings they miss. The culture ticket should become better known.

The Greens want to introduce a club register so that music venues and other cultural sites are taken into account in planning and not pushed out. They stand by the Freiluftpartygesetz (open-air party law) and want to make temporary cultural uses easier.

The Greens want to protect clubs. A list should show all clubs and cultural places. Then the city can consider them in building plans. Open-air parties should stay possible.

The Greens want to set up a permanent festival site in Bremen and provide basic funding for its operator and upkeep from the cultural budget. This is meant to make festivals easier to run and boost Bremen's reputation in the scene. Conditions for independent artists are also to improve.

The Greens want a fixed place for festivals in Bremen. The city should pay for it. This makes festivals easier. Independent artists should also get better conditions.

The Greens call for a strategy on remembrance culture and want to give the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (state agency for civic education) more money and staff for it. The memory of Nazi crimes is to remain tangible for younger generations even once the last witnesses are gone.

The Greens want a plan for remembering history. The state agency for civic education should get more money and staff. Young people should learn about the crimes of the Nazi era. The history of queer people should also become better known.

The Greens want to create a documentation center in Bremen on colonialism and its lasting effects. Colonial traces in the cityscape are not to remain unchanged but to be put in context and critically addressed.

The Greens want to build a center about colonial times. People can remember and learn there. Statues from that time should get an explanation. The city should show that it rejects that policy today.

The Greens want to list available squares and spaces downtown in an online exchange and hold a regular “Möglichkeitenmesse Innenstadt” (downtown opportunities fair). This is meant to help artists and cultural groups find spaces in the center. According to the platform, many of them have so far preferred vacant properties outside downtown.

The Greens want a website listing free spaces downtown. Artists can find suitable places there. There should also be a regular fair. Artists and building owners can meet there.

The Greens want more downtown offerings for younger people and for those less drawn to classical culture. Successful cultural projects are to be supported as they become established. For the Güterbahnhof (a cultural site at the former freight station), the platform calls for long-term planning security and financial help.

The Greens want more culture for young people downtown. This includes concerts, clubs, and studios. Good projects should get help. The artists at the Güterbahnhof should be able to stay there safely.

The Greens affirm press freedom and public broadcasting and want its oversight bodies to work better. At Radio Bremen, two citizens chosen by lot would join the broadcasting council, and an audience council would be created.

The Greens want to keep public broadcasting. But the broadcasters should be checked more closely. At Radio Bremen, two people picked by lot should join the broadcasting council. That council watches over the station. An audience council should advise the station.

The Greens want to support writers, journalists, and researchers who have fled their countries with fellowships. The planned Literaturhaus (house of literature) would get a center for exile literature.

Some writers and researchers have to flee war and persecution. The Greens want to help them in Bremen. They should get fellowships. A fellowship is money to live and work. The new house of literature should have a place for their books.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim and plan to expand courses together with clubs, the DLRG lifesaving association and the city's pool operator. The platform argues that learning to swim early can save lives. Pools are to be renovated on an ongoing basis and get more customer-friendly opening hours.

Every child should learn to swim. This can save lives. The Greens want to offer more swimming courses. They will work with clubs and pools to do this. The pools should be renovated and have better opening hours.

The Greens want to keep raising financial support for trained sports instructors. The city of Bremen is to continue covering the cost of their license training. At the federal level, the party wants to push for a higher tax-free allowance.

Instructors train people in sports clubs. The Greens want to give them more money. The city of Bremen should keep paying for their training. They should also pay less tax. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level.

The Greens want to help sports clubs facing higher energy costs with a funding program for investment and energy savings. Sports facilities are to be renovated and developed based on the sports development plan. City-owned sports facilities are to get solar panels and charging points for electric vehicles wherever possible.

Energy has become expensive for sports clubs. The Greens want to help the clubs with money. This should help clubs save energy. Sports halls and fields should be renovated. City sports facilities should get solar panels.

The Greens want to maintain and expand freely accessible places for sports and play in parks and public areas. The platform sees them as an easy-access option, especially for children and teenagers. Schools and clubs are also to cooperate more closely so that all-day students can take part in club sports.

Bremen has many public places for sports. The Greens want to look after them and build new ones. Everyone can use them for free. Schools and sports clubs should work together more. Then more children can do sports in a club.

The Greens want more freely accessible areas for play, sports and meeting in the neighborhoods and would provide more money for this. Allotment garden areas would stay protected from conversion, and public space would be better equipped.

The Greens want more places where people can meet. These include playgrounds, green areas and sports areas. These places should be free for everyone. There should be more benches, toilets and drinking fountains. Allotment gardens should stay.

The Greens want to restrict advertising in public space in Bremen by law. This is meant to make local retailers and local event organizers more visible and to reduce sensory overload and light pollution.

There is a lot of advertising in the city. The Greens want a law that limits it. Shops and event organizers from Bremen should become easier to see. There should also be less bright light from ads.

The Greens want to create a funding program called “Stadtlabore” (city labs) to try out new uses in the city center and make them permanent if they work. It is meant to complement the existing concept and pop-up stores, which are mostly geared toward shopping.

The Greens want a new funding program for downtown. It is called “Stadtlabore,” or city labs. People can use it to try new ideas in empty spaces. Good ideas should stay for good.

The Greens want to make more use of the city center as a place to spend time and expand offerings for groups that have received little attention so far. These include children, young and older people, newcomers to Bremen, and people who cannot afford to spend money. A range of places with different profiles is to be developed.

The Greens want a downtown for everyone. Children should be able to play there safely. Young people should have places to meet. People with little money should feel welcome too.

The Greens want to upgrade the Bahnhofsvorstadt (the district around the main station) as a neighborhood in its own right, whose residents need more than cleanliness and safety. By the end of 2023, an assessment of their needs is to be completed and turned into recommendations for long-term development.

The Greens want to improve the neighborhood by the station. Many people live and work there. By the end of 2023, it should be clear what residents need. A plan for the neighborhood should come from that.