Grüne: program for the 2025 Hamburg state election

The Greens want to keep developing Science City Bahrenfeld and make it Hamburg's first special innovation zone. Obstructive rules are to be identified and reduced there so that research and companies can cooperate more easily. Its centerpiece is to be the PETRA IV X-ray microscope, which the federal government should continue to co-fund.

A district for science is being built in Bahrenfeld. It is called Science City. Special rules should apply there so new ideas can grow more easily. A very powerful X-ray microscope is to be built there. The federal government should help.

The Greens want to make it easier for researchers to found companies out of universities. To do so, existing innovation structures are to be pooled, a central advisory office created and a transfer fund set up.

Researchers should find it easier to start their own company. A central office should help with legal and paperwork questions. The best ideas get money from a fund. Experienced founders should advise new founders.

The Greens want to create a new, regular forum between the leadership of the Senate, the authorities and Hamburg's business community. Its main purpose is to coordinate the economy's path to climate neutrality, which the city wants to support with infrastructure and lower energy costs.

The Senate and Hamburg's companies should meet regularly. They should talk about big tasks together. Protecting the climate is one of them. The Greens also want energy to become cheaper for companies.

The Greens want to organize the city's innovation support systematically and remove duplicate structures. A central point of contact, the House of Innovation, is to bring all players together. In the platform's view, the city has so far lacked a strategic innovation policy.

Hamburg has many offices that support new ideas. Some do the same thing. The Greens want to tidy this up. There should be one central place. It is called the House of Innovation.

The Greens propose a future foundation jointly backed by the city and business. Private capital and a municipal contribution are meant to secure lasting funding for promising technologies and research infrastructure.

The Greens want to set up a new foundation. The city and companies both put money in. The foundation uses the money to support new technology and research. That way funding should be available for the long term.

The Greens want a start-up strategy for Hamburg that is linked to the innovation strategy. Advice, funding programs and growth funds are to be financed permanently, and more private equity capital mobilized. Women founders are to receive targeted support because, according to the platform, they remain underrepresented.

The Greens want to support new companies in Hamburg better. Advice and funding programs should get money for the long term. Private investors should put more money into new companies. Women who start a company should get special help.

The Greens want to continue and expand Hamburg's strategy for social enterprises on a permanent basis. The InnoImpact grant program is to keep running, and public contracts are to be awarded more strongly on social and environmental criteria.

Some companies mainly want to solve problems in society. They are called social enterprises. The Greens want to keep supporting them. The city should pay more attention to social and environmental issues when it buys things.

The Greens want to review and realign the city's economic development policy. The industry clusters are to follow an overall strategy, involve start-ups more and network with each other. Renewable future technologies are to get priority when attracting companies.

The city supports companies in different ways. The Greens want to check whether this works well. The support should follow a clear plan. Companies with renewable energy technology should get land quickly.

The Greens want to strengthen Hamburg as an aviation hub and gear it toward fossil-free flying. Research on new propulsion is to be funded, and the aircraft industry supplied with hydrogen, sustainable fuels and green electricity. The city is to support, demand and accelerate the path to climate-neutral aviation.

Many people in Hamburg work in aircraft building. The Greens want to strengthen this industry. In the future, planes should fly without oil. More research should be done for that. The companies should get enough hydrogen and clean electricity.

The Greens want to strengthen Hamburg's port economically as a universal port and demand significantly more federal money for it. They also want new business models beyond container handling and closer cooperation among northern German ports.

The Greens want to make Hamburg's port stronger. The federal government should give much more money. The port should do more than move containers. Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony should work together better.

The Greens want to use port land more intensively, cluster industries geographically and free up unused sites for innovation and, in individual cases, urban development. Under the guiding idea "the port is the city," the port should also become more accessible, including on foot, by bike and by ferry.

A lot of land in the port is not used well. The Greens want to use this land better. Some land should go to new companies and research. People should be able to visit the port more easily. Bike paths and ferries should get better.

The Greens favor private companies taking part in terminal operations so that investment flows into digitalization and automation. The platform treats modern terminals as a precondition for a climate-neutral and economically viable port.

Terminals are the places where ships are loaded and unloaded. The Greens think it is good when private companies take part. These companies should invest in modern technology. The federal government should pay for a bigger turning area for ships.

The Greens want to continue the Masterplan Handwerk 2030 together with the Chamber of Skilled Crafts and support the building of multi-story trade yards. Recruiting and training skilled workers for climate-related trades from abroad is to become easier.

Skilled trades are important for Hamburg, for example for heating and solar roofs. The Greens want to keep supporting them. They want to fund workshop buildings with several floors. Skilled workers from abroad should be able to come more easily.

The Greens want to review reporting, documentation and proof requirements for companies and introduce the once-only principle. They also plan a single procurement system and continued funding programs for the digitalization of small businesses.

Companies have to fill out many forms. The Greens want to reduce that. Companies should have to give information to the authorities only once. There should be one shared system for public contracts. Small businesses should keep getting help with going digital.

The Greens want to anchor city tourism as a cross-cutting task of urban development and regulate hotel growth. Visitor flows are to be spread more evenly across the city and individual neighborhoods relieved.

Many visitors come to Hamburg. Some neighborhoods get very crowded because of that. The Greens want to steer where new hotels are built. Visitors should also go to other neighborhoods and the surrounding region. Tourism should also benefit the people of Hamburg.

The Greens want all vocational trainees in Hamburg to be able to use buses and trains for free. In addition, far more affordable housing for trainees is to be created.

Trainees should ride buses and trains for free. So far this applies only to school students. The Greens also want many more cheap homes for trainees. Then young people from elsewhere can train in Hamburg too.

The Greens want social benefits to be provided quickly, in a friendly way and without high hurdles. A platform with an app is to bundle all benefits and discounts so that no one loses entitlements out of ignorance, shame or because of complicated procedures.

The Greens want people to get social benefits more easily. An app should show all kinds of help. Offices should work faster. People should be able to do everything without the internet too. Advice centers should get more money.

The Greens want to help social service providers find and pay for premises and declare this a public task. The contact points for self-help groups are also to be financially secured.

The Greens want to help social organizations. The city should help them find and pay for rooms. Self-help groups should also get reliable funding.

The Greens want to develop the emergency overnight shelter system further and create smaller, decentralized shelters. These are also to be open to people with no entitlement to social benefits or without regular residence status.

The Greens want more small emergency shelters in the city. There should be special offers for women and young people. People without residence papers should also be allowed to sleep there. Help on the street should get better.

The Greens want people with mental illness to be better able to stay in or return to work. More counseling is meant to prevent those affected from being pushed into early retirement benefits.

People with mental illness should be able to keep working. The Greens want to help them return to their jobs. There should be more counseling. Then fewer sick people have to retire early.

The Greens want more reliable career paths at universities and research institutions. This includes additional permanent positions alongside professorships, more tenure track, and bringing student employees into the states' collective wage agreement.

Many people in academia only have short-term contracts. The Greens want to create more permanent jobs. Students who work at universities should also get better rules. A collective wage agreement should cover them.

The Greens want to give more support to (solo) self-employed people and micro-businesses. They should get easier access to funding and public contracts, and the city should pay fees that cover living costs and social security.

Many people in Hamburg work for themselves and alone. The Greens want to help them. They should get funding and city contracts more easily. The city should pay them fair fees. They should be able to live on that.

The Greens want to amend Hamburg's public procurement and collective-pay law so that being bound by a collective agreement becomes a criterion for public contracts. Staff at publicly funded organizations and teachers at adult education centers are also to be paid at collectively agreed rates.

The city gives contracts to companies. The Greens want these companies to pay union-agreed wages. A collective agreement sets wages for a whole industry. Companies that break the rule get no more contracts. This should also apply to groups that get city money.

The Greens want an inclusive labor market and plan to draw up a strategy for it through 2030 together with those affected. Work in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities is to be better paid and eventually turned into jobs with full social insurance.

People with disabilities should find work more easily. The Greens want to make a plan for this through 2030. The people affected should have a say. Sheltered workshops should pay better. Big companies should pay more if they hire too few disabled people.

The Greens support in principle a 32-hour week over four days and want to test it in a pilot project. In the party's view, shorter hours at the same pay could move more people to take up work or work full time.

The Greens like the idea of a four-day work week. That would be 32 hours of work. They want to test it first in a trial. They will look at health and output, for example. They also want to support flexible working hours.

The Greens want to promote the founding of works councils and staff councils and have obstruction of co-determination prosecuted more firmly. In the party's view, these bodies secure employees' democratic participation, and few workers in Hamburg are represented by them so far.

Works councils speak for the workers in a company. Hamburg has few of them. The Greens want more works councils. Anyone who blocks a works council election should be prosecuted. Prosecutors should get more resources for this.

The Greens want to provide more staff for workplace safety inspections and enlarge the city's occupational health service. People with mental illness are to be kept in work through counseling, therapy places and structured return-to-work programs.

The Greens want more safety at work. The city should inspect companies more often. It needs more staff for that. People with mental illness should be able to stay in their jobs. There should be more counseling and therapy for them.

The Greens want to develop and widen publicly subsidized employment for the long-term unemployed. At the federal level, the current time limits on this support are to be dropped so that more people can be employed for longer.

Some people are out of work for a long time. There are subsidized jobs for them. The Greens want more of these jobs. Support should be allowed to last longer than five years. This helps more people get back to work.

The Greens want to develop Hamburg into an "inclusion metropolis" where everyone can take part on equal terms. To that end, barriers in public buildings are to be removed quickly and the say of people with disabilities strengthened.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be able to join in everywhere. Public buildings should no longer have barriers. There should be money for this. People with disabilities should have more say. Computer programs should translate texts into easy language.

The Greens want to protect workers from abroad, including those without papers, from exploitation. In the platform's view, fair working conditions must not depend on a person's origin.

The Greens want to protect workers from abroad better. This includes people without papers. There should be more advice in many languages. The city should check that the minimum wage is paid.

The Greens want to give better help to heavily indebted people and expand debt counseling. More people are to get free or cheaper advice, and the financial and debt collection industries are to share in the added costs.

The Greens want to help people with large debts better. More people should get free or cheap advice. Banks and debt collectors should help pay for it. Debt collectors are companies that collect unpaid bills.

The Greens want to expand the maintenance management system for city infrastructure and fund it permanently. It is meant to ensure regular servicing, repair and renewal. The party expects this to keep facilities in good condition and lower costs in the long run.

Roads, bridges and parks need care. Hamburg has a fixed system for this. The Greens want to expand it. There should be enough money for it. That way the city saves costs later.

The Greens want to make speculation in land less attractive through tax law. At the federal level, they are pushing for a longer period before rented properties can be sold tax-free, an end to the share-deal loophole and valuations closer to market value for inheritance tax.

Some people buy land only to sell it at a higher price. The Greens want to make this harder with taxes. People who sell a rented property are to pay tax on the profit for longer. Big companies are no longer to avoid the tax on purchases.

The Greens want the use of the Kultur- und Tourismustaxe (culture and tourism tax) to be evaluated and the parliament to have a say. A larger share of the money should go to new concepts and to resource savings, energy efficiency and accessibility in the sector.

Hotel guests in Hamburg pay a charge called the culture and tourism tax. It brings in 25 million euros a year. The Greens want to check what the money is spent on. The city parliament should help decide. More money should go to new and eco-friendly ideas.

The Greens want to keep allowing loans for investments that pay off while limiting interest costs through long-term borrowing. Companies providing essential public services are to stay in public hands, while other city-owned firms without a public purpose are to be sold.

The Greens want to handle the city's money carefully. The city may take loans for investments that pay off. Important companies like the Hochbahn transit company should belong to the city. The party wants to sell other firms without a public purpose.

The Greens want to change the debt brake at the federal level so that credit-financed investments become possible. They also call for a federal investment fund because Hamburg cannot pay for renewing its infrastructure alone.

The Greens want to change the federal debt brake. The debt brake limits new government debt. The state should be allowed to borrow for investments. The federal government should also create a fund for investments.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for reinstating the wealth tax and reforming the inheritance tax. Loopholes in inheritance, property and real estate transfer taxes are to be closed and the tax offices strengthened.

The Greens want a tax on large fortunes again. The tax on inheritances should also change. Big corporations should no longer get advantages when buying land. People buying their first own home should pay less tax. The tax offices should become stronger.

The Greens want 3,500 subsidized and price-capped homes built each year at first, rising to 5,000 in the medium term. Housing construction is to focus more on the need for affordable homes.

The Greens want more low-cost homes to be built. At first it should be 3,500 a year. Later it should be 5,000 a year. The city is to support the building with money.

The Greens want to lower construction costs by speeding up planning and permitting and by adjusting design requirements. There are to be no cutbacks on sustainability.

The Greens want to make building cheaper. Offices should handle building applications faster. The rules should be easier to understand. Homes made from ready-made parts should be built more often.

The Greens want to raise the share of subsidized homes in private building projects from one third to at least half. Municipal development areas are to go mainly to public-interest developers, which are to be strengthened.

In new building projects, half of the homes are to be subsidized. Until now it has been one third. City land is to go mainly to builders that do not aim for profit. These include SAGA and cooperatives.

The Greens want to extend the rent commitment period for subsidized homes to 40 years and keep expiring commitments alive with financial incentives. In new subsidized homes, rent is to be tied to income so that more homes can be created with the same funding.

Subsidized homes are to stay low-cost for 40 years. The rent is to depend on income. People who earn more pay a little more rent. The tax office is to check income every 5 years.

The Greens want to support families in building or buying a home they live in themselves. Low-interest city loans are to be available from two children on, and later an allowance on the real estate transfer tax is to be added.

Families should find it easier to buy their own home. The city is to give low-cost loans to families with two or more children. Until now, they need three children. Later, families are to pay less tax on their first purchase.

The Greens want to implement the federal Neue Wohnungsgemeinnützigkeit (new nonprofit housing status) quickly and add a separate Hamburg funding segment. This is meant to create an additional stock of permanently low-cost rental homes.

The Greens want a new kind of support for housing companies. In return, the companies must offer low rents for good. They must put their money back into housing. They then pay less tax and get city land more easily.

The Greens want to expand home swapping with SAGA and set up a relocation office with moving bonuses for the private market. Older people are to be able to move into smaller homes at low cost, while families find larger ones.

Some people have a home that is too big. Families often look for a bigger one. The Greens want to make swapping homes easier. A new office is to help with this, and there is to be money for moving.

The Greens want to use all state-level tenancy and building law tools to protect tenants. Vacancy and misuse of housing are to be pursued by dedicated district task forces, preservation ordinances are to be extended, and the rent index is to be calculated differently.

Homes should not stand empty. They should also not be used as offices or vacation rentals. Special teams in the districts are to check this. The city is to pass such homes on to people in need.

The Greens want to push for stronger tenant protection at the federal level, including through Bundesrat initiatives. Index-linked rents are to be abolished or sharply limited, loopholes in the rent cap closed, and evictions for the owner's own use restricted.

The Greens want to protect tenants better. For this, federal laws must change. Index-linked rents are to end or be strongly limited. These are rents that rise with prices. Evictions for the owner's own use are also to become harder.

The Greens want new homes to be created mainly through densification and on land that is already sealed. Unsealed land is to be preserved because, according to the platform, it matters for climate adaptation, biodiversity and well-being.

The Greens want to use land sparingly. New homes are to be built where there are already buildings. Buildings are to get taller. Green areas are to stay free.

The Greens want buildings to be renovated or converted as a priority rather than torn down. According to the platform, this is meant to preserve affordable housing and cut carbon emissions and construction waste.

Old buildings are to be torn down less often. They should be renewed or used in a new way instead. Empty offices are to become homes. This saves energy and protects low-cost homes.

The Greens want the city to buy land, sell hardly any, and grant it under hereditary leasehold instead. Rights of first refusal are to be expanded so that land, as a limited resource, serves affordable housing.

The city is to keep its land. It is to lease the land and not sell it. It is also to buy new land. This is how the party wants to secure low rents.

The Greens want everything needed for daily life to be quickly reachable from home on foot, by bike or by bus and train. To this end, neighborhood centers are to be strengthened, land used in more varied ways and public spaces made more attractive.

Everything important should be close to home. This includes shops, doctors, schools and parks. People should get there easily on foot or by bike. Every district should have a lively center.

The Greens want to review the RISE funding program for disadvantaged neighborhoods, extend it, and add a fast-track version. At the same time, social infrastructure in the neighborhoods is to be built to fit local needs and its funding secured.

RISE is a city program. It helps neighborhoods with problems. The Greens want to check and improve the program. It should run longer. Youth centers and community culture centers should get secure funding.

The Greens want the city to effectively pursue excessive rents as an administrative offense. Tenants are to be able to report suspected cases easily and free of charge; in the Bundesrat, Hamburg is to push for a stricter ban.

Some landlords charge rents that are far too high. The Greens want to go after this more. Tenants should report high rents to the city for free. The city then checks the rent.

The Greens want to make Hamburg age-friendly and counter age discrimination. Older people should be able to live in suitable, affordable homes and find more meeting places where no purchase is required.

The Greens want a good city for older people. There should be more homes without obstacles. Old and young should be able to live together. There should be more free meeting places. Nobody has to buy anything there.

The Greens want to end homelessness by 2030 and make Housing First the guiding principle of support. Under this approach, a home of one's own comes at the start of the help, accompanied by further support.

The Greens want no one to be without a home by 2030. Homeless people should get a home first. After that they get more help. Fewer people should lose their homes.

The Greens call for removing the village of Moorburg from the port development area. In their view, only this allows the village to develop with housing construction, renovations and businesses.

The village of Moorburg has been part of the port expansion zone for over 40 years. The Greens want to end that. Then new homes can be built and old houses repaired. The village should stay.

The Greens want to create considerably more dorm places for young people in vocational training and at university. The share of trainees with a dorm place is to rise from under 3 to as much as 13 percent by 2030, and 2,000 new places are to be built for students.

Housing in Hamburg is expensive. This hits trainees and students hard. The Greens want to build more dorm places. Students should get 2,000 new places by 2030. Many more trainees should get a place too.

The Greens want to set a legal target that every playground gets inclusive play equipment. District sports facilities are to be modernized and their allocation made simpler.

All children should be able to play on playgrounds. This includes children with disabilities. The Greens want to write this into a law. Sports fields should get modern artificial turf.

The Greens want to inform parents better about childcare and actively reach out to families who are distant from the education system. Social work in daycare centers would advise families and relieve staff. The goal is a childcare offer close to home for all parents.

Not all parents know what daycare centers offer. The Greens want better information, also in several languages. Experts should go to families. Daycare centers should have social workers. Every family should find a daycare center nearby.

The Greens want to gear the Kita-Gutschein (daycare voucher) system more to the child's needs. If parents' circumstances change, for instance through a new sibling or job loss, the voucher would stay unchanged for a year instead of four months as now. Single parents could apply for eight hours of care even without a job.

In Hamburg, parents get a voucher for daycare. If a parent loses a job, the voucher shrinks after 4 months today. The Greens want it to stay the same for one year. Single parents should always be able to get 8 hours of daycare.

The Greens want to raise the free legal entitlement to childcare from five to six hours a day. Every child would receive the voucher at birth, valid until starting school. This is meant to improve educational opportunities, make part-time work possible for parents and cut red tape.

Today children have a right to 5 free hours of daycare a day. The Greens want 6 hours. Every child should get the voucher at birth. It is valid until school starts. Parents then need to fill out fewer forms.

The Greens want to advocate at the federal level for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance). The platform justifies this by saying about one in four children in Hamburg lives in poverty and background too often determines opportunity.

About one in four children in Hamburg is poor. So the Greens want a basic child allowance. That is money for children from the state. Offices should reach out to families on their own.

The Greens want to raise funding for open child and youth work and shift youth services funding from time-limited projects to long-term financing. This is meant to end insecure jobs and retain skilled staff.

Youth centers and play houses should get more money. So far the money often comes only for a short time. The Greens want it to flow permanently. That gives workers secure jobs.

The Greens want to keep supporting young people who grew up in residential care or foster families after they turn 18. Further plans concern guardianships, parents with learning difficulties and people who suffered violence in care homes.

Some young people grow up in care homes or foster families. They should still get help as adults. Parents with intellectual disabilities should get another housing project. Victims of violence in care homes should receive recognition.

The Greens want to strengthen the protection of children against violence, neglect and exploitation. To that end, another child protection center is to be set up, agencies are to work together more closely, and youth welfare offices are to have enough staff.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. There should be one more child protection center. Agencies, daycare centers and courts should work together more closely. Parents should get help with raising children. Youth welfare offices should have enough staff.

The Greens want to set up an alliance for good education and reliable childcare. Daycare providers, parents, staff and unions would work out joint steps to address the shortage of skilled workers in daycare centers.

Hamburg's daycare centers do not have enough trained staff. The Greens want to form an alliance. Daycare providers, parents, staff and unions will talk there. Together they will look for solutions.

The Greens want to keep supporting the Childhood-Haus for children who are victims or witnesses in criminal proceedings. Protection against violence is to be strengthened in family court cases. The platform sees mothers' rights at risk from the influence of so-called “fathers' rights” activists.

Children are sometimes victims or witnesses in court. The Childhood-Haus exists for them. The Greens want to keep supporting it. Family courts should protect people better from violence.

The Greens want to tackle the staff shortage in Hamburg's daycare centers (Kitas) with a hiring drive. Trainees would be paid during their training, and training capacity would grow. In the short term, current staff would be relieved of tasks outside group work.

Hamburg's daycare centers do not have enough staff. The Greens want to hire more people. People who train for the job should get paid. There should be more training places. Today's staff should have fewer side tasks.

The Greens want to give extra resources to daycare centers with many children who need additional support. The model is the social index (Kess factors) Hamburg uses to fund schools. The program frames good early education as a matter of social justice.

Some daycare centers have many children who need more help. These centers should get more money and staff. Schools already have such a rule. The Greens want it for daycare centers too.

The Greens want to move the mandatory pre-school assessment a year earlier, to age three and a half. Children who need it would receive mandatory language support so that all start school with equal chances. Multilingualism would also be fostered from an early age.

Today children must come for a check at four and a half. The Greens want this at three and a half. Then people see earlier which child needs help. Language support would then be required. Children with several languages should get support too.

The Greens want all schools with social index 1 and 2 to receive additional resources. To that end, the federal-state Startchancen program and Hamburg's 'D23+ Starke Schulen' program would be expanded. The share of children lacking basic skills in reading, writing and math is supposed to fall markedly.

Many children cannot read, write or do math well. The Greens want to change that. Schools with many poor children should get more money. No school in the program should get less than before.

The Greens want to link morning and afternoon learning more closely at all-day schools. Offers in sports, culture and democracy projects would allow individual support, also together with local clubs. Career guidance within the all-day program would be expanded as well.

All schools in Hamburg are all-day schools. The Greens want to connect mornings and afternoons better. There should be offers for sports, culture and democracy. Clubs should take part. Students should also learn more about jobs.

The Greens want to continue the school structure agreed in the 'Schulfrieden' (school peace accord), with Stadtteilschulen (comprehensive district schools) and Gymnasien. Schools should focus on teaching quality rather than structural debates. The party does not see simply lengthening the Gymnasium years as a solution.

Hamburg has district schools and Gymnasium schools. The Greens want to keep it that way. Schools should focus on good teaching. The party does not want to argue about new school types.

The Greens want to reduce the amount of content in school curricula. Creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication would instead become the guiding model for teaching. The party puts particular weight on students' judgment in a digital world.

Students have to learn a lot of content today. The Greens want less content. Instead, children should be creative and work in teams. They should think critically and communicate well. They should be able to judge information online.

The Greens want to enable cross-subject teaching, project learning periods and fixed self-study time in schools. Students would learn at their own pace, guided by teachers. Room, time and group structures would become more flexible for this.

Children learn at different speeds. The Greens want fixed self-study time in the timetable. There, each child learns at their own pace. Teachers help and advise. There should also be more projects across several subjects.

The Greens want tests and exams to be taken at different times, especially in elementary school and grades 5 and 6. Retakes and repeat assessments should be possible. Alternative exam formats are to be kept.

Today all children in a class take a test on the same day. The Greens want to loosen that. Children should be able to take tests at different times. They should be able to fix mistakes and retake exams.

The Greens want more flexible paths for students who reach the Abitur (university entrance diploma) faster or more slowly. Plans include a pilot for an eight-year track at Stadtteilschulen, a review of a three-year final stage, and a pilot concept for an upper level built from elective course modules.

Some students need less time to finish school, others need more. The Greens want to allow both. District schools should test an 8-year path. The last 2 years could also take 3 years. Students should choose courses more freely.

The Greens support campus schools that offer both an eight-year and a nine-year route to the Abitur under one roof. The concept is to be developed so that new teaching approaches emerge which other schools can also adopt.

A campus school has two paths to the final diploma. One takes 8 years, one takes 9 years. Both share one head and one team of teachers. The Greens like this. Other schools should learn from the ideas.

The Greens want to build up staff for inclusive schools. Teacher training programs would get a mandatory special-education component, and schools would receive a permanent pool of school aides. Help with learning difficulties would also be available without a diagnosis.

Children with disabilities may attend a regular school. Often there is not enough staff. The Greens want more experts. All future teachers should learn special education. Schools should have permanent aides. Children should get help even without a diagnosis.

The Greens want civic education to be a fixed part of school life from primary school onward. The platform justifies this with the spread of extremism and the influence of platforms such as TikTok, X and Telegram.

The Greens want more civic education in schools. It should start in primary school. Children should learn how democracy works. The party says this matters because of social media.

The Greens want to give students more say in how they learn and how school life is organized. A guideline is to be drawn up together with Hamburg's student council body, the Schüler*innenkammer.

Students should have more say at school. The Greens want to write a guideline for this. The student council body should help write it. This way young people experience democracy themselves.

The Greens want to keep funding exchange programs and make them easier to access, especially for young people from poorer families. Schools should also teach the significance of the EU and global learning.

The Greens want to support exchange with other countries. Young people with little money should be able to take part too. They should get money for it. Schools should explain why the EU matters.

The Greens want children to reflect regularly on their use of phones, social media and online games as early as primary school. The platform points to dangers such as fake news, sexualized violence and addiction.

Children use phones and the internet early. There are dangers there too. The Greens want primary schools to talk about this. Teachers should get better training for it.

The Greens want to give schools more room to shape their work and develop their own profile rather than steering them centrally. The platform argues this creates responsibility and quality; where quality falls short, the freedom is to end.

Schools should decide more for themselves. The authority should set goals but regulate fewer details. Each school should have its own profile. Quality should still be checked.

The Greens want to modernize and further expand schools, including existing buildings. Schools are to be planned as places for the whole neighborhood, and school grounds are to be designed close to nature.

The Greens want to build new schools and modernize old ones. Schoolyards should become greener. Sports clubs and neighbors should be able to use the schools too. Schools should get more help with planning.

The Greens want to counter the teacher shortage with more university places, fewer dropouts and new routes into the profession. Career-changer pathways are also to be tested.

Hamburg needs more teachers. The Greens want to create more university places. Fewer people should drop out of their studies. People from other jobs should also be able to become teachers.

The Greens want to free teachers from administrative and IT tasks and systematically record their workload. The aim is for staff to stay motivated and healthy in the job for a long time.

Many teachers have too much work. The Greens want more office staff at schools. Experts should take care of the computers. Teachers should get regular counseling.

The Greens want all young people to leave school ready for vocational training and able to make a well-founded career choice. Career guidance is to become more practice-oriented, including at Gymnasium schools.

Young people should be well prepared for training after school. The Greens want to give more insight into companies. Trainees should talk about their work in schools. This should happen at Gymnasium schools too.

The Greens want to introduce a guaranteed vocational training place for all young people soon. A levy is meant to support small and medium-sized companies in particular in offering training.

Every young person should get a training place. The Greens want to guarantee this. Companies should pay into a shared fund for it. The money should mainly help small companies train people.

The Greens want to strengthen vocational training as an equal alternative to university. Training fees are to fall, pay in school-based shortage occupations is to be examined, and master craftsman training is to get more support.

Vocational training should become more attractive. The Greens want to lower fees for training. People who become master craftsmen should get more money. Training should be as good an option as university.

The Greens want to give young people closer support when moving from school to work and to reduce training dropouts. Production schools for young people with high support needs are to be strengthened.

No young person should be left without help after school. Trainees should know their rights and be able to report problems early. There should be more counseling and mentoring. Special schools for young people with big problems should get more support.

The Greens want to open up and better coordinate courses in reading, writing, math and digital skills for adults of any age. A regional strategy is to be developed for this.

Many adults cannot read and write well. The Greens want to offer more courses for this. One office should organize all the offers in Hamburg. There should be a shared plan for it.

The Greens want to make education and training possible at every age. Older people are to get free tablet and smartphone courses, and the city's digital services are always to have an in-person service point.

The Greens want people to be able to learn all their lives. Older people get free courses for phones and tablets. The city should stay reachable without the internet too.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim safely during elementary school. To that end, children up to age ten are to get free admission to the pools run by Bäderland. Mandatory swimming lessons are to be moved up to the first two grades.

Every child should learn to swim safely in elementary school. Children up to age 10 should not pay for the pool. Swimming lessons should start in grades 1 and 2. Right now they take place in grades 3 and 4.

The Greens want to maintain and increase investment in science and research. Public universities are to receive growing core funding from 2027 under new Zukunftsverträge (funding agreements), and more than 6 billion euros would go into university buildings over two decades.

The Greens want to spend more money on universities and research. From 2027 there will be new agreements with the universities. Their basic funding should keep rising. More than 6 billion euros are planned for buildings over 20 years.

The Greens reject tuition fees and want subsidies for the Studierendenwerk (student services organization) to rise with inflation. At the federal level they push for a reform of BAföG (student aid), and 2,000 new dorm places are to be created in Hamburg by 2030.

Going to university should not depend on parents' money. The Greens do not want tuition fees. More students should get BAföG, the state student aid. By 2030 there should be 2,000 new dorm places.

The Greens want to safeguard the conditions for free science and keep universities as places of open debate. At the same time, universities are to set up safeguards against antisemitism, racism and other forms of discrimination.

Researchers should decide freely what they study. The Greens want to protect this freedom. People should be able to discuss disputed topics at universities. There should also be protection against hatred of Jews and racism.

The Greens want to support each of the city's universities in its areas of strength. The University of Hamburg is to receive additional funds for its excellence status, and the university hospital UKE would get continued backing for research, teaching and construction.

The Greens want to strengthen each of Hamburg's universities. The University of Hamburg should stay top-ranked and get more money. The university hospital UKE should also keep growing. More people should be able to study nursing at one university.

The Greens want to strengthen Hamburg's research priorities: climate and sustainability research, infection research, quantum technologies and materials research. Findings are to reach business and society faster and on a larger scale.

A lot of climate research happens in Hamburg. The Greens want to expand it. Research on diseases and new technology should grow too. The results should reach companies and people faster.

The Greens want to expand the state's research funding, especially the part that is open to any topic. Universities and research institutes are also to be more closely networked and to communicate their work more to the public. The platform sees strong basic research as a foundation for the city's future prosperity.

The Greens want to give more money to research in Hamburg. Researchers should also be free to choose their topics. Universities should work together better. Science should explain its results to people more clearly.

The Greens want to regulate the sharing of research data through state law without restricting individuals' rights to their data. At the same time, scientific institutions are to cooperate more closely on IT so they are prepared for cyberattacks.

Researchers should be able to share data safely. People should keep the rights to their own data. The Greens want to make new state laws for this. Universities should protect their computers better against attacks.

The Greens want to widen the paths into vocational training, continuing education and retraining in order to gain skilled workers. Universities are to offer short courses for working people, and schools are to put career orientation into practice across all subjects.

Hamburg needs more skilled workers. So the Greens want more ways to learn on the job. Universities should offer short courses for working people. Schools should teach more about jobs. Changing jobs in mid-life should also get easier.

The Greens want to open Hamburg's "Religionsunterricht für alle" (religious education for all, RUfa) to more religions and to non-religious worldviews. Permission to teach the subject should no longer depend on the approval of a religious community. The reason given is that a large share of Hamburg's population has no religious affiliation.

In Hamburg, children of all religions learn together in religion class. The Greens want to open the subject further. People without a religion should also be allowed to teach it. No religious community should have to approve this anymore. The view of people without religion should count equally.

The Greens want to modernize law studies and the legal clerkship and reduce exam pressure. This includes a bachelor's degree built into the course of study, more lenient exam rules and less mandatory material. Hamburg is to take a leading role in the reform and thereby attract young talent to the justice system.

Studying law is very hard. Students who fail the final exam have no degree. The Greens want a bachelor's degree within law studies. Exams should cause less pressure. There should be less material to learn.

The Greens want to keep implementing and evaluating the heat action plan completed in 2024. More public drinking fountains and temporary cooling centers in public buildings are to be added. The platform justifies this with the health risk heat poses to especially vulnerable groups.

Extreme heat is dangerous for people's health. Hamburg has a plan to protect people from heat. The Greens want to keep carrying out this plan. There should be more drinking fountains. During extreme heat, cool rooms should be open to everyone.

The Greens want to add a health examination to the mandatory assessment of young children at elementary schools. It would cover development, vision and hearing. The aim is above all to reach children who have no pediatrician.

Young children come to the elementary school for a check. The Greens want to look at their health too. Experts check development, eyes and ears. This helps children who have no children's doctor.

Given the growing number of students with mental illness, the Greens want to set up care close to schools. The school health professionals project would be expanded with city funding. The program treats health as a key precondition for successful learning.

More and more students have mental health problems. The Greens want help close to schools. There should be more health staff in schools. The city should pay for this. Teachers should get more training on it.

The Greens want to introduce binding municipal planning of long-term care needs that is organized by neighborhood. Everyone who needs care should find services that match their needs.

The Greens want to plan care better. The city should know what help is missing in each neighborhood. Family and neighbors should be able to help with care. Family caregivers should get more advice.

The Greens want general practitioners, pediatricians and low-threshold contact points to be within reach in every part of the city. Access to basic care should not depend on where people live or how mobile they are.

The Greens want doctors' offices in every part of the city. The way to a family doctor or children's doctor should be short. There should also be health centers and advice nearby. The public health office should be strengthened.

The Greens want to use legislation to ensure that all children take part in preventive checkups. Mothers and families are to be better cared for through outreach services and more midwives.

The Greens want all children to go to their health checkups. Families get invitations in several languages. Mothers and families should get more help. For that, there should be more midwives.

The Greens want to expand interpreting services in doctors' offices and hospitals and get them established as a statutory benefit at the federal level. In addition, practices are to become barrier-free, and people without health insurance and homeless people are to get better care.

The Greens want everyone to be able to talk with their doctor. For that, there should be more interpreters in practices and hospitals. Practices should be reachable without obstacles. People without health insurance should get help. There should be a regular practice for homeless people.

The Greens want to create a site for research and treatment of post-viral illnesses such as ME/CFS at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. In addition, a competence center for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is to be set up.

The Greens want to help people with long-term effects after infections. The university hospital should do research and treat them. There should also be a center for FASD. FASD is a disability caused by alcohol during pregnancy.

As part of hospital reform, the Greens want to work with hospitals on further specialization and transparent quality. Outpatient and inpatient care are to be more closely linked, above all through integrated emergency centers across Hamburg.

The Greens want to keep improving hospitals. Hospitals should specialize in certain tasks. They should get enough money. There should be emergency centers across the city. Doctors' offices and hospitals work together there.

The Greens want to tighten Hamburg's law on protection from secondhand smoke. Exceptions for smoking in restaurants and bars are to be dropped, and outdoor seating areas and transit stops are also to become smoke-free.

The Greens want less smoking in public places. Smoking should no longer be allowed in restaurants and bars at all. That also applies outside restaurants and bars. Smoking should also be banned at transit stops.

The Greens want to expand health promotion in all stages of life and prevent violence and harassment at work. Medical care for prisoners during and after their sentence is also to be improved.

The Greens want people to stay healthy. There should be healthy food in daycare centers, schools and care homes. There should be no violence or harassment at work. Prisoners should get good care after release too.

The Greens want to strengthen outpatient and outreach support for people with mental illness and expand the psychiatric emergency service. The aim is to prevent repeated hospital stays and homelessness. Trauma treatment for refugees is also to grow.

The Greens want more help for people with mental illness. The psychiatric emergency service should get bigger. Offices should handle requests for help faster. Refugees with trauma should also get more treatment.

The Greens want to reduce dropout rates in nursing training by funding school social workers at nursing schools. Nursing professionals are to take on more tasks in local primary care. Intercultural and non-discriminatory care is to be made mandatory.

Many people quit nursing training. So the Greens want to fund social workers at nursing schools. Nurses should get more tasks in neighborhoods. Nobody should be treated unfairly in care.

The Greens want drug and addiction policy to rely on prevention, harm reduction, and decriminalization rather than prosecuting people with addictions. Addiction services are to be funded permanently, and drug education in schools is to become mandatory. The cannabis law is to be implemented in Hamburg.

The Greens do not want to punish people with addictions. They want to help and advise them. Schools should teach children early about drugs. Addiction services should get enough money. The cannabis law should apply in Hamburg.

The Greens want to offer drug checking in Hamburg, meaning the testing of drugs for their contents, to reduce the risks of use. Easily accessible support services and the supply of substitution treatment are to be secured.

In drug checking, experts test what is in a drug. The Greens want to make this possible in Hamburg. This should protect people from dangerous substances. Easy-to-reach help should stay. People with addictions should be able to get substitute drugs from a doctor.

The Greens want to improve protection against gambling addiction. In the next revision of the interstate gambling treaty, advertising for gambling and sports betting is to be banned and a monthly stake limit set without exceptions.

Gambling can be addictive. The Greens want to ban ads for gambling and sports betting. Each person should be able to bet at most 1,000 euros a month. The strict rules for gambling halls should stay.

The Greens want to greatly expand care for queer people, for instance with dedicated specialist offices and trained staff in hospitals and nursing homes. The platform estimates that 4,500 to 9,000 queer people in Hamburg need care and sees a lack of discrimination-free services, which it says leads to isolation.

Many queer people in Hamburg need care. Often there are no fitting services for them. So the Greens want to create many more services. Care workers should be trained for this. Older queer people should also have a say in important bodies.

The Greens want to make the emergency medical service medically independent and give it its own physicians. It is to be linked more closely with doctors' offices, hospitals and other services because call volumes are rising. Renovation of volunteer fire stations is to continue.

The ambulance service has more and more calls. The Greens want to give it its own doctors. It should work more closely with hospitals and doctors' offices. Volunteer fire stations will keep being renovated.

The Greens want to deploy an app that alerts medically trained people nearby when an emergency call comes in. This is to be combined with resuscitation training and more publicly accessible defibrillators. The reasoning is that every second counts in cardiac arrest and ambulances need several minutes to arrive.

When a heart stops, help must come very fast. The Greens want an app for first responders. The app calls trained people who are nearby. There will also be more courses on how to revive someone. More places will have defibrillators. These are devices that restart the heart.

The Greens want to create a short-stay psychiatric unit in the prison system and expand forensic psychiatric facilities as needed. According to the platform, the background is a rise in mental illness among inmates. Suicide prevention in custody is to be developed further.

More and more prisoners have mental illnesses. The Greens want a special unit in prison for them. Forensic clinics should also get more places. These are clinics for offenders with mental illness. The Greens want to prevent suicides in prison.

The Greens want to create more suitable accommodation places for refugee minors who arrive without family. This is meant to secure care, integration and education.

Some children and teenagers flee to Hamburg without parents. The Greens want to create more good places for them. There they should be cared for and able to learn. Every young person should get a chance.

The Greens want to give skilled workers from abroad fast and fair access to Hamburg's labor market. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized more easily, language and integration courses expanded, and companies supported in bringing newcomers on board.

Hamburg needs skilled workers from other countries. The Greens want to make their start easier. Foreign degrees should be accepted faster. There should be more language courses. Companies get help when they hire newcomers.

The Greens want to strengthen the training of imams in Germany and expand Hamburg's qualification programs. This is meant to make Muslim congregations less dependent on their countries of origin. Religious communities are also to get help finding premises.

Imams lead prayers in the mosque. The Greens want to train more imams in Germany. They can be men or women. Then congregations need less help from other countries. Religions should also find rooms for prayer more easily.

The Greens want to spread refugees more evenly across the city to maintain public acceptance of new shelters. Shelters are to be humane and meet higher standards. Priority is to go to the “Housing First” approach, under which people are first placed in a home of their own.

Many refugees in Hamburg live in shelters. The Greens want to spread them fairly across the city. Shelters should be good and safe. Refugees should get their own apartment as fast as possible.

The Greens want more opportunities for children and adults to learn German, which they see as the key to settling in. Integration courses are to be offered more often with childcare, and course instructors are to be paid better. More interpreters are also to be made available.

People who come to Hamburg should be able to learn German well. The Greens want more language courses. There should be childcare during the courses. Children should learn German in daycare already. Course teachers should get better pay.

The Greens want to set up a central office that recruits and coordinates volunteers so that every refugee gets a mentor or a trained integration guide. Public administration is to become more accessible through plain language, multilingual forms and digital procedures. The aim is faster access to authorities, work and language courses.

Refugees should get help from the start. Each person should have a mentor or guide. A new office finds and coordinates the volunteers. Forms from public offices should be easier to understand. They should come in several languages.

The Greens want to encourage immigration of skilled and other workers at various qualification levels and streamline procedures in government offices. According to the platform, slow processes block access to work and participation for too long. Volunteer and professional integration guides are to support new arrivals from the start.

The Greens want more workers from abroad to come to Hamburg. Government offices should work faster and more simply. Then people can find a job sooner. Helpers should guide new arrivals in the city.

The Greens want Hamburg to appoint a commissioner for migration, integration, and participation. This person is to advise government agencies on coordination and serve as a public point of contact. In addition, cross-agency coordination of refugee-related tasks is to be firmly established again.

The Greens want one fixed person for the topic of integration. This person advises the government offices. People affected can turn to this person. The offices should also work together better.

The Greens want to actively promote the new naturalization options created by the citizenship law reform and digitize the procedure. Hamburg authorities are to use their discretion in favor of applicants.

The Greens want more people to get a German passport. The city should advertise this. People should be able to apply online. In unclear cases, offices should decide in favor of the people.

The Greens want independent observation of deportations to cover the entire process, including outside Hamburg. So far, monitoring exists at Hamburg Airport but not when people are picked up from the detention facility in Glückstadt.

In Hamburg, an independent office watches deportations at the airport. The Greens want to extend this. It should start when people are picked up from detention. That detention center is in Schleswig-Holstein.

The Greens want to expand health care for people without papers and continue supporting the clearing office. Victims of violence without a residence permit are to have an anonymous contact point that offers shelter.

Some people in Hamburg live without valid papers. The Greens want to help them better when they are sick. Victims of violence should get help and shelter without giving their name. They do not have to report to the authorities right away.

The Greens want to create Hamburg's own admission program for people from Afghanistan. It is meant to speed up what they see as slow admissions under the federal program, since the situation under the Taliban remains dangerous.

The Greens want Hamburg to have its own program for people from Afghanistan. People in danger should be able to enter more easily. The Greens think the federal program is too slow. Afghanistan is still dangerous.

The Greens advocate a European migration policy that guarantees access to asylum and fair, individual procedures. They condemn pushbacks at the external borders and want Hamburg to sponsor a civilian rescue ship through donations.

The Greens want Europe to protect the right to asylum. Every person who flees should get a fair process. No one should be pushed back at the border against the law. Hamburg should support a rescue ship with donations.

The Greens want public spaces and housing designed so that people of all ages, with or without disabilities, can use them equally. To that end, barriers are to be removed, public restrooms improved, and the "Age-Friendly City" action plan firmly established.

Everyone should be able to use the city well. This goes for old people, young people, and people with disabilities. The Greens want to remove barriers. They also want better public restrooms.

The Greens want to set up an independent anti-discrimination commission for schools and a state-funded complaints office for racism. Every school would have trained, independent contact persons. In the program's view, racism is a problem at Hamburg's schools that calls for structural change.

Some children face racism at school. The Greens want an office for complaints. It should be independent. A commission should deal with discrimination. Every school should have a contact person.

The Greens want better medical care for women affected by genital mutilation. The issue is to be given more weight in asylum proceedings. Prevention, counseling, and empowerment of those affected are to be expanded.

Some women have suffered genital mutilation. The Greens want to help them better. Doctors should treat them better. It should count more in asylum cases. There should be more counseling.

The Greens want to agree on measures with universities to raise the share of women professors and close the pay gap between women and men. Support for dual-career couples is also to be expanded.

There should be more women professors at universities. Women and men should earn the same. The Greens want to agree on this with the universities. Partners of new staff should also find work more easily.

The Greens want better legal protection for parents against discrimination at work, adding "parenthood" as a protected characteristic in the General Equal Treatment Act. The party also stands by a 50 percent quota for women on the governing bodies of companies in which the state holds a stake.

Women and parents often face disadvantages at work. The Greens want to change that. A law should protect parents better from unfair treatment. Companies should think about child care when planning shifts. In city-owned companies, half of the leaders should be women.

The Greens demand that at least half of the places on electoral lists go to women. This goal is to be written into Hamburg's constitution; the platform justifies it with the equality mandate of the Basic Law.

At least half of the candidates on election lists should be women. The Greens want this to be required. This goal should be written into Hamburg's constitution. The Greens say Germany's Basic Law demands equal chances for women.

The Greens want to close the pay gap between women and men and reduce the unequal distribution of care work. At the federal level, they push for an equal pay law, an end to Ehegattensplitting (income splitting for married couples) and equal treatment of different family forms.

Women earn less than men on average. The Greens want to change that. They call for a law on equal pay. The tax break for married couples should end. This tax break is called Ehegattensplitting. All kinds of families should have equal rights.

The Greens want to anchor gender equality more firmly as a policy field of its own in Hamburg. An independent Senate coordinator for women's equality and an independent gender budgeting office are to be created.

The Greens want to strengthen equality for women in Hamburg. An independent coordinator at the Senate should take care of it. She should get her own office. A new unit should check whether the city spends money fairly for all genders. This is called gender budgeting.

The Greens want abortion to no longer be regulated in the criminal code. In Hamburg, access to care is to improve, and abortion is to become part of specialist medical training.

Abortion is in the criminal code today. The Greens want to change that. Women should decide about their own bodies. Hamburg should offer better abortion care. Doctors should learn it in their training. Counseling should also be strengthened.

The Greens want to expand protection from domestic violence and provide considerably more money for it. Women's shelters and counseling centers are to get more capacity, and safe housing is also to be created for men and non-binary people.

Many women experience violence from a partner. Women's shelters in Hamburg are overloaded. The Greens want more places and more counseling. There should be much more money for this. Men and non-binary people should also get safe housing.

The Greens want a state anti-discrimination law for Hamburg that also covers discrimination by public bodies. In their account, the federal General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) so far leaves this area unprotected.

A federal law protects people from unfair treatment. But it does not cover actions by the state. So the Greens want a separate law for Hamburg. It should also protect people from unfair treatment by public offices. Counseling centers should also become better known.

The Greens want an anti-discrimination office that brings all counseling and reporting services together in one place. It would advise on every ground covered by the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and on additional ones such as social status. Existing strategies against specific forms of discrimination are to be carried out and reviewed.

The Greens want one central office against discrimination. Discrimination means people are treated worse, for example because of where they come from. All counseling services should be in one place. Everyone in Hamburg should be able to reach it easily.

The Greens want to supplement Hamburg's strategy against antigypsyism with a state treaty with Sinti and Roma self-organizations and associations. The aim is to fight antigypsyism structurally and secure equal participation.

The Greens want a treaty between Hamburg and the Sinti and Roma associations. The treaty should help against antigypsyism. Antigypsyism means hostility toward Sinti and Roma. Sinti and Roma should have equal chances.

The Greens want to act on the basis of the state strategy against antisemitism, focusing on education, youth exchange and counseling. The platform justifies this with the rise in antisemitic crimes and incitement since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Greens want to do more against antisemitism. Antisemitism is hatred of Jewish people. There should be more education and counseling. Teachers should learn more about the topic. All students should study the Israel-Palestine conflict in depth once.

The Greens want to move the rebuilding of the Bornplatz Synagogue forward quickly and help the Liberal Jewish Community get a place of its own. Hamburg is also to enter into a city partnership with Israel.

The Greens want to rebuild the Bornplatz Synagogue quickly. The Liberal Jewish Community should also get a good place. An old temple on Poolstraße should be restored. Hamburg should form a partnership with a city in Israel.

The Greens want to counter anti-queer hatred with trained police stations, a public campaign and more police presence at hotspots, among other steps. The platform notes that Hamburg's police counted about 75 percent more anti-queer crimes in 2023 than the year before.

Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. There are more crimes against them. The Greens want to protect them better. There should be more police in certain places. The police should learn more about the topic.

The Greens want to carry out the more than 150 measures of the action plan "Hamburg l(i)ebt vielfältig" and support a shared place for the queer community. Existing counseling centers are to be financially secured, and services for trans, inter and non-binary people expanded.

The Greens want to support a shared house for queer groups. Counseling centers should keep getting money. There should be more counseling for trans and inter people. There should also be a center for rainbow families. These are families with queer parents.

The Greens want to expand dedicated counseling and youth housing for queer children and teenagers within youth welfare services. Teachers and daycare staff are to receive training, and awareness work in schools is to continue.

Some queer children and teenagers are excluded. The Greens want to offer them more counseling and their own housing. Teachers should get training on this. Daycare staff should also learn more about rainbow families.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for the Basic Law to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual identity. They also seek a reform of parentage law and a compensation fund for trans people who were forced into sterilization or divorce under the former Transsexuals Act.

The Greens want to change the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. It should say: No one may be disadvantaged because of their sexual identity. Queer parents should be treated equally by the law. Trans people should get money for past injustice.

The Greens want more women in leadership positions in the justice system and will continue the mentoring program for women. They support a dedicated office for diversity and anti-discrimination at courts and prosecutors' offices. The justice system is to become as diverse as society.

More women should hold leading roles in the courts. The Greens will continue a mentoring program for this. In it, experienced people guide younger women. There should also be an office against discrimination at the courts.

The Greens want everyone to have equal access to the services and jobs of Hamburg's public administration regardless of origin. The civil service is to get a dedicated representative body for people with a migration background and people of color.

The Greens want a city government for all people. Where someone comes from should not matter. More young people with immigrant roots should work there. They should get their own representatives.

The Greens want more police presence at relevant hotspots and additional counseling services for queer people. A monument to sexual and gender diversity is to be built at the Binnenalster lake.

The Greens want to protect queer people better. Queer means for example: lesbian, gay or trans. There should be more police at certain places. There should be more counseling and help. A monument for diversity should stand at the Binnenalster lake.

The Greens want to strengthen the inclusion advisory councils in the districts by law. Their members are to receive expense allowances and easier access to assistance so that people with disabilities have more say.

The Greens want to strengthen the inclusion councils in the districts. There, people with disabilities have a say in politics. Members should get money for their effort. They should also get assistance more easily.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a fast rollout of the Klimageld (climate dividend). Revenue from the carbon charge would flow back as a payment to all residents. Climate policy should not put an outsized burden on low and middle incomes.

The Greens want a climate payment. The state collects money from the carbon charge. It should pay this money out to everyone. This helps people with little money the most.

The Greens want to develop a "social check" in Hamburg and write it into the state climate protection law. Climate measures would be reviewed during lawmaking for who bears how much of the burden. No one should be overwhelmed by climate policy.

The Greens want a social check for climate laws. The check asks: Who has to pay how much? Costs should be shared fairly. People with little money should get extra help.

The Greens want to continue shifting Hamburg's energy supply away from fossil fuels. The coal phase-out is to be completed ahead of the federal target of 2030. Wood from forests should not be burned in large power plants.

Hamburg should soon stop burning coal. This should happen before 2030. The Greens also do not want to burn forest wood in power plants. Instead they want waste heat, large heat pumps and hydrogen.

The Greens want to keep expanding wind power in Hamburg and meet the federal land-area target as early as possible. By 2028, 0.5 percent of the state's area is to be designated for wind energy. Residents should be able to share in the profits.

The Greens want more wind turbines in Hamburg. By 2028 there should be enough land for them. Turbines should also stand in the port. People living nearby should share in the profits.

The Greens want to speed up the rollout of solar installations and implement a comprehensive photovoltaics strategy. Installed capacity is to grow to 800 megawatts peak by 2030 and 1.5 gigawatts peak by 2035. The city is to lead the way on its own buildings.

The Greens want many more solar panels in Hamburg. They should not only be on roofs. Balconies, building walls and parking lots are possible too. The city should start on its own buildings.

The Greens want to upgrade Hamburg's power grid so that it can run entirely on renewable electricity. Large-scale and local storage facilities are to be built for this. Distribution grids are to be modernized, digitized and made more flexible.

Solar panels and wind turbines need good power grids. The Greens want to renew these grids. Large and small power storage units should be added. Then power is always there.

The Greens want to cut energy demand significantly in buildings, industry and transportation. They plan a socially balanced renovation drive for residential buildings. High energy-efficiency requirements are to remain in place for new construction.

Buildings should use less energy. So the Greens want to renovate many homes. This should be done fairly. New buildings should still meet strict energy-saving rules.

The Greens want to switch district heating to climate-neutral sources and extend the city-owned network. More households should be able to heat in a climate-friendly way while heating costs stay affordable. City-owned companies are to provide legally secure pricing.

District heating comes to homes through pipes. The Greens want to make this heat without coal. More buildings should get a connection. Prices should be clear and secure for customers.

The Greens want every building to take part in the heating transition. Where a district heating connection is not possible, neighborhood-level solutions and local heating networks are to help. Municipal heat planning is to set the framework and give residents guidance.

Not every building can get district heating. Small heating networks in the neighborhood should help there. Neighbors then share clean energy. The city makes a heat plan for this. The plan shows which heating fits where.

The Greens want to secure subsidies for buying heat pumps. Federal funding is to stay in place and be sensibly supplemented by Hamburg. The platform points to high upfront costs that only pay off after years of operation.

Heat pumps are still expensive to buy. Later they save money. So the state helps pay for them. The Greens want to keep this help. Hamburg should add its own help too.

The Greens want to give high priority to green hydrogen in order to make industry climate-neutral. The Port of Hamburg is to become northern Germany's center for hydrogen technology. Electrolyzers and an industrial hydrogen network are to be built in Moorburg.

Green hydrogen is made with power from wind and sun. It causes no emissions. The Greens want to produce it in the port. Factories, ships and planes should use it. This should start in 2027.

The Greens want to further develop Hamburg's climate protection law and climate plan over the next five years. The goal is to cut CO2 emissions by 70 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. The resulting burdens are to stay small and be shared in a socially fair way.

Hamburg has a climate protection law. The Greens want to improve it. By 2030 Hamburg should emit much less CO2. The law should contain enough measures for that. Costs should be shared fairly.

The Greens want to set annual emission amounts for individual sectors that fall year by year. If an amount is exceeded, an emergency program is to make up the shortfall. The measures in the climate plan are to be adequately funded.

Each sector may only emit a set amount of CO2 per year. This amount gets smaller every year. If emissions are too high, the city must act fast. It then presents an emergency program.

The Greens want Hamburg to be CO2-neutral as early as 2040, five years ahead of the national target year. To that end they support the citizens' initiative "Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid." After 2030, too, Hamburg is to pursue more ambitious targets than the federal government.

Hamburg should be climate-neutral from 2040. That means the city then emits no CO2 on balance. Germany plans this only for 2045. The Greens support a citizens' initiative for this.

The Greens want the city to factor adaptation to climate change into every decision and planning process. Hamburg's climate adaptation strategy is to be developed further and made binding. The platform justifies this with Hamburg's position as a large city near the coast.

The climate is changing. Hamburg should get ready for this. The Greens want the city to think about the effects in every plan. This should become a fixed rule. It will cost a lot of money.

The Greens want to strengthen and raise the dikes along the Elbe. Protection against rising sea levels is to take priority over other uses and claims on land. The platform points to the storm surge of 1962.

The sea level is rising. The Greens want to make the dikes on the Elbe higher and stronger. Flood protection should come before other plans for the land. Other dikes in Hamburg should also be kept in good shape.

The Greens want to prepare Hamburg better for heavy rainfall. More areas where water can seep away or collect are to be created, and more roofs are to be greened. Additional rainwater treatment plants are meant to relieve lakes and rivers.

Sometimes it rains very hard. The Greens want more areas where the water has room. Green roofs should also catch rain. People should get tips on how to protect themselves.

The Greens want to preserve Hamburg's remaining peat soils and restore their function by raising water levels. This is meant to let them serve again as natural carbon stores. To this end, the city should be able to buy plots on peatland.

Peatlands are wet soils. They store a lot of CO2. The Greens want to keep the peatlands in Hamburg. For this, the water level there should rise again. The city should be able to buy peatland.

The Greens want to make the building sector climate-neutral in a technology-neutral way, looking at emissions across a building's whole life cycle. The city and its companies are to lead with climate-friendly materials and the Effizienzhaus 40 standard.

New buildings are to harm the climate less. The city itself is to build very energy-saving buildings. It is to build more often with wood and other climate-friendly materials. This also keeps heating costs low.

The Greens want more buildings to get energy retrofits without the costs falling one-sidedly on tenants. To that end, the federal modernization surcharge is to be lowered and support for landlords increased.

Old buildings are to be better insulated. Tenants should not pay more because of this. Landlords are to be allowed to add less of the cost to the rent. In return, landlords get more public funding.

The Greens want climate adaptation to be a fixed part of urban development. More green space, unsealed surfaces, and water features are meant to prepare Hamburg for flooding, heavy rain, and heat.

The weather is getting more extreme. There is more heat and more heavy rain. The Greens want to get the city ready for this. They want more green space and more water in the neighborhoods.

The Greens want major sporting events in Hamburg to be climate-neutral. Their carbon footprint is to be assessed in a uniform way, and public funding is to depend on it. Clubs are also to receive state money for energy-efficiency renovation of their facilities.

Big sports events should not harm the climate. Experts should check how much greenhouse gas an event causes. Only then should the city give money. Clubs get help to make their facilities use less energy.

The Greens want Hamburg, as a state, to sign climate protection contracts with energy-intensive industrial companies. The city would thereby offset the extra cost of climate-friendly production compared with conventional processes. This is meant to save large amounts of CO2 and kick-start industrial change.

Climate-friendly production often costs factories more. The Greens want Hamburg to pay the difference. The city signs contracts with the companies for this. That way less CO2 should be produced.

The Greens want to expand Hamburg's industry and support it in the shift to an economy without fossil fuels. The petroleum sector is to switch to fossil-free fuels, and small and mid-sized firms are to get advice. The platform names supplying industry with affordable fossil-free energy as the core task.

Hamburg's factories should be able to work without oil, gas and coal. The Greens want to help them do that. Small companies should get advice. Oil companies should make new, clean fuels.

The Greens want to press the federal government for a reform of grid fees and for several electricity price zones in Germany. In the platform's view, northern Germany is doubly disadvantaged: it pays higher grid fees and, because of the single price zone, does not benefit directly from its own new power generation. The party also calls for faster grid expansion.

A lot of electricity is produced in the north. Still, electricity is not cheaper there. The Greens want to change that. Germany should get different price zones for electricity. The costs for the power grid should be newly arranged.

The Greens want to use the planned Sustainable Energy Hub to turn the port into a European hub for hydrogen and fossil-free fuels. Suitable companies are to settle at the site of the former Moorburg coal plant and on former tank farm land.

The Greens want to build a big hydrogen site in the port. Hydrogen is an energy source without coal, oil or gas. A plant for this is being built at the old Moorburg coal power station. New companies should settle there.

The Greens want Hamburg to lead on climate-neutral shipping. This includes shore power, facilities for bunkering alternative fuels, lower port fees for low-emission ships and a city-owned fleet that sets an example.

Ships should do less harm to the climate. In the port, they should get electricity from land. They should also be able to fill up with new fuels there. Clean ships should pay lower port fees. The city's own ships should set an example.

The Greens want to create the conditions by 2030 for emission-free tourist shipping on the Elbe. They want to use regulation to push cruise companies to use shore power and introduce cleaner fuels.

Tour boats on the Elbe should no longer give off exhaust. By 2030, the Greens want to create the rules and facilities for that. Cruise ships should use electricity from land while in port. They should also use cleaner fuels.

The Greens want to set investment priorities: climate neutrality of the administration and city-owned companies, the mobility transition, the business location and social cohesion. An additional one billion euros over ten years is to go into energy retrofits of public buildings.

The Greens want to invest the city's money in a targeted way. Climate protection in city buildings and companies comes first. There is one billion euros extra over ten years for this. The city should not sell its buildings. Renovating matters more than new big projects.

The Greens want to strengthen nature-based climate protection in Hamburg. Existing forests are to be preserved and total forest area is to grow. The platform notes that forests cool and store CO2.

The Greens want to protect Hamburg's forests. There should also be new forests. Forests cool the city on hot days. Forests also take CO2 out of the air.

The Greens want to expand the Grünes Netz (Green Network) of connected green spaces and recreation areas, upgrade parks and enlarge them where possible. Everyone in Hamburg should be able to reach a green space within a five-minute walk. The platform sees this as protection against summer heat and a contribution to health and biodiversity.

The Greens want more and better parks. Green spaces should be linked to each other. Everyone should reach a green space in a 5-minute walk. Every park should have flower meadows for insects. Green spaces cool the city in summer.

The Greens want a dedicated program to open up and renaturalize more paved surfaces. New sealing of land is to be kept as low as possible; in the long run, newly sealed and unsealed areas should balance out. According to the platform, this helps against heat islands and lets more water seep into the ground.

Many surfaces in the city are covered with asphalt or concrete. The Greens want to open up such surfaces again. Then water can flow into the ground. The city gets cooler in summer. As little new land as possible should be paved over.

The Greens want to draw up a water strategy for Hamburg. It is meant to secure the drinking water supply despite drought and heavy rain and keep prices affordable. Rainwater is to be used more widely as non-drinking water.

The Greens want to make a plan for water in Hamburg. Everyone should have drinking water in the future too. It should stay affordable. People should save water. Rainwater should be used for flushing toilets.

The Greens want to halt species loss and increase biodiversity across the whole city. To that end, nature reserves are to be enlarged, the habitat network legally secured, and species monitoring expanded. The party commits to the EU Nature Restoration Regulation and to the agreements of the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal.

The Greens want to protect animals and plants better. There should be more protected areas for nature. These areas should be linked to each other. That way animals can move around. The city should count more carefully which species exist.

The Greens want a planting drive to bring the number of street trees back to at least the 2009 level. Old trees should be spared from felling where possible, and every tree felled should be replaced by at least one new one. Tree stock and forests are to be adapted to heat, drought and storms.

The Greens want to plant more trees along the streets. There should be as many again as in 2009. That was almost 233,000 trees. Old trees should stay. New trees should cope well with heat and dry weather.

The Greens reject any further deepening of the Elbe. Future river engineering is to respect ecological limits and bring ecological improvements. Rivers are to get more room, for example by moving dikes back and restoring floodplains.

The Greens do not want to dredge the Elbe any deeper. Rivers should get more room. Animals in the water should get their habitats back. Dirty water from roads should not flow into rivers. Hamburg should work with neighboring states.

The Greens want a sustainability strategy with clear goals for Hamburg and sustainability officers in every city authority and district. The city budget is to be aligned with the sustainability goals. A circular economy is meant to save raw materials, especially in construction and waste recovery.

Sustainable means living so that there is enough for everyone later too. The Greens want a plan with clear goals for this. Every city office should get a person in charge of it. Building should create less waste. The city should spend its money in line with these goals.

The Greens want a lighting master plan for Hamburg that brings together safety, culture and ecology. Public lighting is to be switched step by step entirely to efficient, insect-friendly LED lamps and controlled through a networked system. The platform justifies this with the effects of light pollution on animals, plants and people.

The city is very bright at night. That harms animals, plants and people. The Greens want a plan for lighting in Hamburg. Lamps should use little power and be gentle on insects. Nature reserves should stay dark.

The Greens want to introduce a mandatory dog owner's license for newly acquired dogs and revise the dog law including its breed list. The city is to create an additional animal shelter at a second location. Illegal puppy trading is to be prosecuted consistently.

Anyone who gets a new dog should have to pass a test. This is called a dog owner's license. The Greens want a second animal shelter in Hamburg. The current shelter is often full. The city should fight the illegal puppy trade harder.

The Greens want to set up a city-recognized rescue station for injured wild animals and have the city pay more toward their care. Stray cats are to be neutered, and the populations of nutria and city pigeons are to be reduced in ways consistent with animal welfare.

Injured wild animals like hedgehogs should get an official rescue station. The city should pay more for this. Stray cats should be neutered. That means they can no longer have young. The number of pigeons and nutria should go down without hurting the animals.

The Greens want to make Hamburg a hub for research methods that do not use animals. The 3R principle, meaning replace, reduce and refine animal experiments, is to be pursued further and given more staff.

The Greens want fewer animal tests in research. There are new methods that work without animals. Hamburg should be a leader in these methods. A network of researchers and companies should help.

The Greens want to set up an additional animal shelter in Hamburg because the existing one repeatedly has to stop taking in animals. They also want to create the office of an independent state animal welfare commissioner.

Hamburg should get a second animal shelter. The current shelter is often too full. There should also be an independent person for animal welfare. This person should speak for Hamburg on animal welfare.

The Greens want to designate one tenth of Hamburg's area as nature reserves. These areas and the landscape protection areas are to remain permanently free of construction, and as much forest as possible is to be preserved.

Ten percent of Hamburg should be nature reserve. Nobody may build there. This also applies to landscape protection areas. The Greens want to keep as much forest as possible.

The Greens rule out any further deepening of the Elbe and want to address the ecological effects of the last deepening together with neighboring states and the federal government. On silt, they call for flexible sediment management and reject dumping near Scharhörn.

The Elbe river was made deeper for big ships. Since then, more silt has built up in the river. The Greens do not want to make the Elbe any deeper. The river should recover. They do not want to dump the silt near the island of Scharhörn.

The Greens want events on public land to follow the city's sustainability guidelines and large events to hold a certificate. As an alternative to fireworks, they propose a festival of lights.

Big festivals should put less strain on the environment. There should be clear rules for that. Large events should have a sustainability certificate. Instead of fireworks, the Greens want to offer a festival of lights.

The Greens want Hamburg to develop its own circular economy strategy, modeled on cities such as Amsterdam. The aim is less waste, lower resource use and fewer emissions; the program says costs should also fall in the long run.

The Greens want less trash in Hamburg. Materials should be used again and again. This is called a circular economy. Hamburg should get its own plan for it. Amsterdam is one model.

The Greens want to introduce a Hamburg repair bonus modeled on Thuringia's, refunding up to half the cost of repairing a device. Repair businesses and repair cafés are also to be strengthened, a FabLab funded in every district, and a circular economy center set up.

Broken devices should be repaired more often. The Greens want a repair bonus for this. The city then pays up to half of the cost. You only have to show the receipt. There should also be more open workshops.

The Greens want to work with consumers so that less food ends up in the trash. Passing on food donations is to become easier, and taking discarded food from supermarket bins is no longer to be a crime.

A lot of food ends up in the trash. The Greens want to change that. Donating food should become easier. People who take food from supermarket trash bins should not be punished.

The Greens want to preserve Hamburg's farmland and farms and get more farms to convert to organic. City-owned farmland is in future to be leased only to organic farms or farms in conversion. At the federal level, the party wants to keep opposing factory farming and animal transports.

There are about 600 farms in Hamburg. The Greens want to keep these farms. More farms should switch to organic. The city should lease its farmland only to organic farms. Farm animals should be treated better.

The Greens want a Hamburg food strategy that moves cafeterias, canteens and restaurants toward more plant-based, regional, seasonal and organic offerings. The standards of the German Nutrition Society (DGE) are to apply across all communal catering. For schools with a low social index, a free lunch for all students is to be examined.

The Greens want better food in canteens and schools. There should be more vegetables and more organic food. The food should come from the region. At some schools, lunch might become free for everyone. The Greens want to look into that.

The Greens want four out of five trips in Hamburg to be made by public transit, on foot or by bike. Services are to grow and infrastructure is to be renewed for this. Bus service is to be emission-free by 2030.

The Greens want less car traffic. Most trips should be by bus, train, bike or on foot. They will build more rail lines and bike paths. Buses should run without emissions by 2030.

The Greens want to designate a 30 km/h limit at night on more streets and enforce the noise action plan more consistently. The platform points to more than 230,000 people in Hamburg who it says are exposed to harmful noise at night. Air pollutants from industry and shipping are to fall.

Many people in Hamburg suffer from noise at night. Most of the noise comes from cars. The Greens want a 30 km/h limit at night in more places. The air should also get cleaner. Ships in the port should have to use power from land.

The Greens want to revise the operating rules and night-flight restrictions at Hamburg Airport. Departures after 11 p.m. are to be all but eliminated, and late landings are to become much rarer. Avoidable delays are to be penalized more heavily.

The airport is in the middle of the city. Planes make noise at night. The Greens want almost no planes to take off after 11 p.m. Late landings should also become rarer. Airlines that are late without a good reason should pay higher fines.

The Greens want to make public transit the backbone of mobility by building new U-Bahn and S-Bahn lines and at least 36 stations. The goal is for 80 percent of trips to be made by bus, rail, bike or on foot.

Hamburg should get new subway and commuter rail lines. At least 36 new stations should be built in 20 years. Neighborhoods without rail should get a connection. Later there should be a cheaper ticket for older people.

The Greens want to make bus service emission-free and denser, with more lines, bus lanes and 500 autonomous midi-buses. In the long term a Stadtbahn (light rail) is to be added, and ferry service on the Elbe is to grow as well.

Buses in Hamburg should run without exhaust fumes. There should be more buses and their own lanes. 500 driverless buses should run in the outer city. Later, a light rail system should be added. Ferries should run more often too.

The Greens want to continuously renovate roads, bridges and energy infrastructure and speed up planning, implementation and financing. Construction sites are to be better coordinated so they burden traffic less.

Roads, bridges and traffic lights should stay in good shape. The city should keep repairing a lot. Construction sites should be planned better. Companies should build together so a street is dug up only once.

The Greens want to work with the federal government to develop resident parking into neighborhood parking. Owners of larger vehicles that take up more public space are to pay more once federal law allows it.

Big cars need more space than small ones. So parking should cost more for them. A federal law must allow this first. Parking for residents should become parking for the neighborhood.

The Greens want to raise bike lane construction from the current 60 to 80 kilometers to 100 kilometers a year in the medium term. The Velorouten (main cycling routes) are to be completed, schools connected to the cycling network, and bike parking at stations greatly expanded.

Hamburg should build or renew 100 kilometers of bike lanes each year. The lanes should be wide and separate from the road. Schools should get good bike routes. Stations should get many more bike parking spaces.

The Greens want to launch Hamburg's first citywide walking strategy and renew 80 to 100 kilometers of sidewalks a year. So-called Hamburg Blocks, modeled on Barcelona's superblocks, are to relieve inner-city neighborhoods of through traffic.

Hamburg should get a plan for pedestrians. Each year, 80 to 100 kilometers of sidewalks should be renewed. Fewer cars should drive in some neighborhoods. Parking spaces should become places to meet and green space. Pedestrians should get a green light faster.

The Greens pursue the goal that no one dies in Hamburg traffic anymore. To get there, they want considerably more 30 km/h limits, especially on minor roads, and at least 20 additional speed cameras.

Nobody should die in Hamburg traffic anymore. So more streets should have a 30 km/h limit. At least 20 new speed cameras should check speeds. The money from the cameras should pay for new cameras.

The Greens want to keep reshaping the city center with fewer cars and to reorganize the public space around the main station. Routes from the station to the downtown area and to St. Georg are to become more inviting, which the platform says will also improve people's sense of safety.

The Greens want fewer cars in the city center. The streets around the main station are to be redesigned. People on foot are to get more space. People should feel safer at the station.

The Greens want to take another look at linking the port to the east by tunnel. Their condition is that this relieves traffic on the Veddel and on Harburger Chaussee.

The Greens want to look at a tunnel for port traffic. The tunnel would link the port with Georgswerder. They set one condition. The Veddel area must then have less traffic.

The Greens want taxis, buses and car-sharing vehicles to run emission-free and want to promote the switch to electric drives for cars and trucks. At the same time, the transport system is to be heavily digitalized to achieve seamless mobility and less red tape.

The Greens want more electric cars in Hamburg. Buses and taxis are to run without exhaust fumes. There are to be more charging points for this. Traffic is also to become more digital, for example with smart traffic lights.

The Greens want to make sidewalks and public transit barrier-free so that people of every age stay mobile. In the long run, the HVV transit network is to offer a senior ticket based on the Deutschlandticket.

The Greens want routes without obstacles. Broken sidewalks should be repaired faster. E-scooters should get fixed parking spots. Later there should be a transit ticket for older people.

The Greens want to cut emissions from air travel and regard Hamburg Airport's current capacity as sufficient. At the federal and European level they advocate a kerosene tax, a tax on domestic flights, broader emissions trading and higher quotas for sustainable fuels. Rail is to become a convenient alternative to flying.

Flying harms the climate. The Greens want a European tax on jet fuel. Flights within Germany should be taxed too. Trains should be a good alternative to planes. Hamburg Airport should not get bigger.

The Greens want to upgrade the main port route from the Köhlbrand to Veddel and secure the broadest possible federal funding. They back building a new high-capacity Köhlbrand bridge and a tunnel to relieve residents of truck traffic.

The most important road through the port should get better. The old Köhlbrand bridge cannot stay. The Greens want to build a new bridge. A tunnel should keep trucks away from homes. The federal government should pay for much of it.

The Greens want to equip all of Hamburg's business districts with high-capacity charging points and build large charging terminals for trucks. Their reasoning is that road logistics is moving to battery-electric vehicles and that the current supply in the port is not enough.

More and more trucks run on electricity. The port has too few charging stations for them. The Greens want to build many new charging stations. There should also be big charging sites for long-distance trucks.

The Greens want to prioritize expanding the port railway and, in the long run, fully electrify and digitalize it. The federal government should be allowed to co-finance it; in addition, more containers are to be moved between terminals by water.

The port railway already carries half of the goods to and from the port. The Greens want to expand it. Later, the trains should run only on electricity. The federal government should be allowed to help pay. More containers should travel by boat inside the port.

The Greens consider the planned A26 Ost highway dispensable and want to argue against the federal project at every level. In their view, the highway would slow the Sustainable Energy Hub and the port railway expansion and would be wasteful in both fiscal and climate terms.

The federal government plans a new highway through the port. It is called A26 Ost. The Greens think this highway is not needed. They say it costs a lot of money and harms the climate. The moors there should also stay.

The Greens want to take the effects on commercial traffic into account in the mobility transition and support neighborhood parking. Parking exemptions for businesses are to be consolidated and granted with little paperwork.

Tradespeople and delivery services need cars and trucks. The Greens want to take that into account. Businesses should get parking permits more easily. The many different permits should become one.

The Greens want to continue and expand the "Urban Digital Twin," a digital model of Hamburg used for planning and public participation. More agencies and partners are to be connected, and the work is to be coordinated centrally.

Hamburg has a digital model of the city. It helps with planning the city and traffic. The Greens want to expand this model. More city offices should work with it.

The Greens want to offer all government services digitally as quickly as possible and design them from the citizen's point of view. In the long run, the administration is to tell people on its own initiative which benefits they are entitled to; those who do not go online are still to get help in person.

The Greens want to put all city services online. Later, the city offices should contact people on their own. People must agree to this first. People who do not use the internet still get help in person.

The Greens want to tie schools' technical equipment to the social index and assign every school a specialist for network support. A legally sound framework for the use of artificial intelligence is to be drawn up quickly.

Schools should get good technology. Schools in poorer areas should get special attention. Every school should get an expert for its computer networks. There should be clear rules for artificial intelligence.

The Greens want to tighten the rules protecting children's privacy and intimate sphere on social media. For children who earn money as influencers, youth employment protection is to be adapted to digital work.

The Greens want to protect children better online. The rules for social media should become stricter. Some children earn money with online videos. There should be clear protection rules for this work.

The Greens want to strengthen artificial intelligence research in Hamburg and set up an AI service center. A high-performance computing cluster for the metropolitan region is also planned. The platform justifies this with the growing role of AI and data science in all disciplines and in business.

The Greens want to strengthen research on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is called AI for short. A new center should help everyone use AI. There should also be very fast computers for the region.

The Greens want to push ahead with fiber and 5G rollout and close remaining coverage gaps. Digitalizing administrative procedures is to be a priority. The platform sees digital infrastructure as a prerequisite for business, work and less red tape.

The Greens want fast internet all over Hamburg. Places without a good network should get it too. Government offices should work more digitally. This should happen quickly.

The Greens want to set up a data protection competence center that advises the administration, companies and citizens. The Bürgerschaft (Hamburg's state parliament) is to get its own committee for digitalization and data protection. The party wants data protection to become a matter of course rather than being seen as an obstacle.

The Greens want to found a center for data protection. Government offices, companies and citizens can get advice there. Hamburg's parliament should get its own committee. It deals with digital issues and data protection.

The Greens want the software and hardware of public bodies to be independent and sovereign. To that end, open source, open standards and matching procurement are to be promoted and a long-term strategy drawn up. Critical digital infrastructure is to be protected.

The government should be independent when it comes to computers and software. The Greens want to use more open software. Anyone can check and change open software. There should be a long-term plan for this. Important digital systems should be well protected.

The Greens want to make it easier for victims of digital violence to enforce their rights. At the federal level, they push for a statutory cease-and-desist form and lower costs for victims.

Some people are insulted or threatened online. They should be able to defend themselves more easily. The Greens want a simple form set out in law. With it, victims can send a formal warning themselves. Costs for victims should also go down.

The Greens want to close gaps in consumer protection online. They call for stricter rules on in-app and in-game purchases, consumer-focused implementation of the AI Act, and a ban on AI-based facial recognition in public spaces that also applies to private actors.

The Greens want to protect people better online. Purchases in games and apps should have a spending limit. Private companies should also not be allowed to recognize faces in public with AI. AI means artificial intelligence.

The Greens regard right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to the democratic rule of law. Hamburg's domestic intelligence agency should therefore focus clearly on this danger, and cross-agency cooperation should continue.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger to democracy. Hamburg's intelligence agency should watch right-wing extremists closely. Public agencies should keep working together. The NSU murders should be investigated further.

The Greens see Islamism as a growing danger to democracy and freedom. The domestic intelligence agency should get sufficient staff and resources, and Islamist groups should be monitored and banned once the evidence is solid.

The Greens see Islamism as a growing danger. The intelligence agency should get enough staff and money. It should watch suspicious groups closely. With clear proof, the state should ban these groups. But Muslims as a whole should not be under suspicion.

The Greens want to counter Islamism mainly through integration and prevention. New strategies are to be developed with religious communities and educational initiatives, especially against its spread on social media.

The Greens want to keep young people from becoming Islamists. For this, Muslims should be well included in city life. New projects should be created with religious communities. Social workers should also reach young people online.

The Greens want hate crime to be reported more often and recorded better. Police are to be made more aware of the issue, the statistics reformed and prevention in schools expanded.

Some people are attacked or insulted because of the group they belong to. This is called hate crime. The Greens want victims to report such acts more often. Police should be better trained for this. Schools should teach more about law and media.

The Greens want to strengthen the police academy, open the police further to research and adapt training to new demands. The complaints office BMDA is to become better known, and its findings are to feed into initial and continuing training.

The Greens want the police to be well trained and well equipped. The police school should become stronger. Researchers should be able to study police work. There is an office for complaints about the police. More people should know about this office.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a revision of the statistics on politically motivated crime (PMK), because their categories are criticized as outdated and blurry. In Hamburg, recording is to be modernized and a separate survey on victimization and reporting behavior continued.

The police count political crimes in a set of statistics. The Greens think the categories there are outdated. They want to improve the statistics at the federal level. Hamburg should keep running its own survey. It asks who became a victim and who reported a crime.

The Greens expect automated data analysis and artificial intelligence to be used in security policy as well. They want to accompany new technologies constructively but critically and review them regularly. Decisions on police intervention are always to be made by humans.

The police use more and more computer technology. Soon artificial intelligence will be added. The Greens want to check this closely. A human should always decide whether the police step in. Not the computer.

The Greens want police to issue a receipt after stopping and checking a person, documenting the stop and the reasons for it. The proposal responds to the debate over racial profiling, meaning stops based on a person's outward appearance.

Police sometimes stop people in the street. The Greens want police to hand out a receipt. The receipt states why the person was stopped. People can then prove that the stop happened.

The Greens want to give the police more staff to uncover mafia-type structures and money laundering. In addition, a monitoring center run by civil society is to be set up. The platform regards organized crime as a threat to the state and to democracy.

Criminal gangs make a lot of money with drugs and human trafficking. The Greens want more police staff to work against these gangs. They also want a new monitoring center. It informs the public and advises people who are affected.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for stricter gun laws so that authorities can step in earlier when there are grounds for suspicion. They point to the mass shooting in Hamburg-Alsterdorf in March 2023 and want to keep weapons away from extremists.

The Greens want stricter rules for guns. They will push for this at the federal level. People who want a gun must prove their mental health regularly. Private people should no longer own semi-automatic guns.

The Greens want to expand civil protection and disaster response at the city and district level and link it more closely with civil defense. The platform points to threats from the climate crisis such as flooding, drought and heat.

Hamburg should be better prepared for disasters. These include floods, drought and heat. The Greens want to modernize disaster protection. Everyone should be able to understand warnings.

The Greens want to make better use of time in custody to prepare inmates for a life without crime. Short prison terms and jail time served in place of unpaid fines are to be avoided because the platform considers them too short for effective measures. Working in prisons is also to become more attractive.

Prisoners should be able to live without crime after release. The Greens want to prepare them better. They want to avoid very short prison terms. That time is too short to help people. Prison jobs should become more attractive for staff.

The Greens want to build joint state and regional planning with the neighboring states. The aim is to coordinate housing policy as well as economic and land development and make them sparing of resources and the climate.

Hamburg works closely with its neighbors. The Greens want to plan together with the neighboring states. This is about housing, the economy, and land. The planning should protect the climate and nature.

The Greens want to pay district office employees better and give the districts more reliable funding. District heads and district assemblies are also to get a stronger role.

The districts take care of life in the neighborhoods. The Greens want to pay the staff there better. The districts should get reliable funding. The heads of the districts should have more weight.

The Greens want to expand public participation in the districts and reach people who rarely use existing formats. In the coming term, a citizens' assembly on education is to be tested and evaluated.

The Greens want more people to have a say. For this, there should be a citizens' assembly. In such an assembly, randomly chosen people discuss a topic. The first one should talk about education.

The Greens advocate letting young people vote in Bundestag elections from age 16. In the party's view, young people know best what is good for them and should be able to take on responsibility early.

The Greens want 16-year-olds to vote in federal elections. They can already vote in other elections. The party says young people should help decide their future.

The Greens want to establish an Enquete commission (a parliamentary commission of inquiry) on societal and social cohesion in the coming term. It is to develop proposals for strengthening cohesion, trust in democracy and social participation in Hamburg.

The Greens want an Enquete commission. That is a working group in parliament with experts. It should find ideas for more cohesion in Hamburg. People should trust democracy more.

The Greens want to anchor young people's say in law. This would be accompanied by a participation strategy, a central coordination office, youth parliaments and a state commissioner for children and youth.

Children and young people should have more say in Hamburg. The Greens want a law for this. There should also be youth parliaments. A commissioner should speak up for young people.

The Greens want to keep putting money into programs and civil society initiatives against extremism, especially for young people. The party sees right-wing extremism as the greatest danger to democracy and freedom.

The Greens want to protect democracy. They want to keep paying for projects against extremism. These projects should mainly make young people strong. Projects for respect and diversity also get money. The party sees the biggest danger in right-wing extremists.

The Greens want protest against fascism to be possible safely and without being criminalized. This is explicitly meant to include forms of civil disobedience.

People should be able to protest against fascism. This should be safe. The Greens do not want such protest treated as a crime. This also covers civil disobedience. That is protest that breaks rules on purpose.

The Greens want to ensure that extremists do not work in public service. To that end, the federal law on judges is to be amended, and opponents of the constitution should not be admitted to legal traineeships.

Extremists should not work for the state. This matters most in the courts. Judges who are barred from office should temporarily lose part of their pay. Enemies of the constitution should not train as lawyers with the state. The Greens want to review and change laws for this.

The Greens want to convert Hamburg's state parliament, the Bürgerschaft, from a part-time into a full-time parliament. Parliamentary groups and the parliament itself are to be better resourced, and cooperation with neighboring parliaments is to grow.

Hamburg's lawmakers only work part-time today. The Greens want a full-time parliament. Party groups should get more money for staff. The parliament should get a research service. Hamburg should also consult more with the parliaments of neighboring states.

The Greens want to keep developing Hamburg's Transparency Act. The transparency portal is to be kept up to date, and publicly owned companies should also provide transparency.

Hamburg has a law on open government information. The Greens want to keep improving this law. The online portal for it should be well maintained. City-owned companies should also disclose information. The freedom-of-information commissioner should get clearer rights.

The Greens want to set up a Hamburg program to digitalize the justice system by 2030, supplementing the federal initiative. They say additional funding is needed. The goal is an efficient, legally sound justice system that is close to citizens.

Hamburg's courts should work more digitally. The Greens want a Hamburg program for this until 2030. This needs extra money. The courts should become faster and closer to the people.

The Greens want to make permanent the more than 100 new positions at courts and the public prosecutor's office if the number of criminal cases stays high. Local courts are to receive additional resources and better-paid clerical staff. The platform cites the heavy load on criminal justice, including from drug and arms trafficking.

Hamburg's courts have a lot of work. The Greens want to keep new jobs there for good. Court office staff should earn more money. Mobile teams should help when there is extra work.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for minor offenses to no longer be prosecuted as crimes. This is meant to ease the burden on criminal courts.

Some small offenses count as crimes today. The Greens want to change that. They will push for this at the federal level. Courts should then have less work.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a constitutional amendment so that states can extend local voting rights to people from non-EU countries. According to the platform, anyone who lives, works, and pays taxes in Hamburg should be able to vote and stand for election.

The Greens want to change the constitution. Then people from countries outside the EU could vote locally too. They live here and pay taxes. So they should have a say.

The Greens want to make the city a more attractive employer so it can compete for skilled workers. To that end, the states' collective agreement (TV-L) is to become more flexible, career tracks more permeable and the administration more diverse.

The Greens want more people to enjoy working for the city. Moving up at work should become easier. Some employees should get a bonus. More women should work in leadership. More people with a migration background should work there too.

The Greens want to strengthen the European idea in Hamburg and give all young people the chance of an international exchange. EU funding is to be easier to access and directed toward democracy education and socially fair climate and environmental protection.

The Greens want Europe to be better known in Hamburg. All young people should be able to go abroad once. The city districts should get EU money more easily. The money should go to democracy and climate protection.

The Greens want to focus Hamburg's international relations more on promoting democracy and climate protection. Development engagement is to grow, including through climate partnerships with the Global South.

Hamburg has partner cities around the world. The Greens want to do more with them for democracy and the climate. Hamburg should find new partners in poorer countries. The city should do more for development aid.

The Greens want to plan low-cost spaces for arts and culture systematically into urban development. A dedicated management company for cultural properties is to look after suitable city-owned sites, because rising commercial rents and scarce space are putting pressure on the scene.

Culture needs space. But rents for such spaces are rising. The Greens want to plan cheap spaces for culture. A new city company is to manage buildings for culture.

The Greens want a reliable culture budget and stronger cultural life in the neighborhoods. Neighborhood cultural centers are to receive sufficient funding, and new centers are to be created in areas with high social need. History workshops and the public libraries (Bücherhallen) are also to keep receiving support.

The Greens want to support culture in the neighborhoods. Cultural centers should get enough money. New centers should open where people have little money. The public libraries should also be able to offer more.

The Greens want to keep the "Musikstadt" (music city) vision and support music continuously from daycare to university. Orchestras, amateur choirs, and projects for young talent are to get more support. The music industry is also to be strengthened as a sector.

Hamburg should stay a city of music. Children and young people should be able to make music early. Choirs and orchestras should get more money. Companies in the music business should also get help.

The Greens want to give Hamburg's music clubs more support in light of rising artist fees and rents. They plan a new funding guideline and an annual investment fund for soundproofing and energy-efficiency upgrades. Spontaneous, non-commercial open-air parties are to be easy to register.

Music clubs have high costs. The Greens want to give them more money. Clubs can use it for soundproofing, for example. That also helps the neighbors. Outdoor parties should be easier to register.

The Greens want to preserve Hamburg's built cultural heritage despite the pressure on scarce land. The representation of heritage protection in the monument council and the monument association is to be strengthened. The party sees a right of associations to sue as a possible tool.

Old, valuable buildings in Hamburg should be kept. The Greens want to strengthen the experts for heritage protection. Associations may also get the right to go to court. That way they can protect monuments better.

The Greens want to build up Hamburg as a film location and double the funding budget for films and series. Filmfest Hamburg is to receive an additional one million euros per year. The platform justifies this with the added value, tax revenue, and jobs it says the industry brings.

Many films and series are made in Hamburg. The Greens want to give twice as much funding for them. The film festival should get one million euros more per year. The film school should also get more money from the city.

The Greens want to preserve the major stages, support private theaters facing rising costs, and improve funding for the independent performing arts. The independent scene is to share in increases in theater funding through a fixed ratio. Culture for children and young people is also to be strengthened further.

Hamburg has big and small theaters. The Greens want to support all of them. Independent artists should get more funding and fair pay. Theaters for children and young people should stay strong too.

The Greens want to create a dedicated support structure tailored to the music industry. The platform justifies this with the sector's importance for the economy, tourism, the city's image and attracting skilled workers.

Very many people in Hamburg work in the music industry. The Greens want to give this industry special support. There should be a separate support office for it. It should help with skilled workers, new ideas and promotion.

The Greens want to expand the city's remembrance policy and create new memorial and learning sites on the Nazi era. Remembrance is to be guided by victims and survivors of far-right violence and, in the platform's view, help defend democracy.

The Greens want to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. There should be new places for remembering and learning. One place should honor the resistance against the Nazis. A reporting office should record damage to memorial sites.

The Greens want to make May 8, the Day of Liberation, an official public holiday. The goal is a nationwide holiday; until then, Hamburg is to adopt its own.

World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. The Greens want to make this day a public holiday. Ideally in all of Germany. Until then, it should be a holiday in Hamburg.

The Greens want to develop the citywide remembrance concept on colonial heritage further and strengthen research on it. According to the platform, Hamburg bears a special responsibility for coming to terms with its colonial history.

Hamburg has a colonial history. The Greens want to keep working through this history. The university should do more research on it. The Hagenbeck zoo should remember the human exhibitions it once held.

The Greens want to fund the sports funding agreement for organized sport at a level that covers actual needs. For volunteers, they call at the federal level for higher tax-free allowances. The platform's reasoning is that volunteering in sport is declining.

Many people in Hamburg volunteer in sports clubs. The Greens want to support this work. Volunteers should pay less tax on what they are paid. The clubs should get enough money from the city.

The Greens want to meet the growing need for sports space by building multi-story halls and opening school gyms to clubs for longer. Elementary school gyms are to be available from 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. New halls are to be barrier-free.

Hamburg needs more space for sports. The Greens want to build sports halls on top of each other. Clubs should use elementary school gyms from 4 p.m. New halls should be accessible for everyone.

The Greens want money not to be a barrier to club sport, especially for children and young people. Benefits from the Bildungs- und Teilhabepaket (education and participation package) are to be easier to claim. In addition, girls and women in sport are to be specifically supported and free offerings in parks expanded.

All children should be able to join a sports club. This includes children from families with little money. Getting state help for this should be easier. Girls and women should get more chances in sport. There should be more free sports in parks.

If Hamburg is considered as one of several host cities for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Greens want the public to be involved early and to make the final decision. The party intends to follow the process critically and constructively.

Hamburg may bid for the Olympic Games. The Greens want to inform people in Hamburg early. In the end, the citizens should decide. The plan must be clear and must not cost too much.

After the ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, the Blue Mosque should again become a place for Shiite believers and for Iranians in exile. The Greens want to achieve this in close dialogue with these groups.

The state banned the Islamic Center Hamburg in 2024. It had used the Blue Mosque. The Greens want Shiite believers to use the mosque again. Iranians in exile should also have a place there. The Greens want to talk with these people about it.

The Greens want to keep supporting and expanding the exchange among religious communities and with the city. Together with the communities, a permanent place and format for dialogue is to be created that also includes non-religious associations.

In Hamburg, religions have talked with each other for a long time. The Greens want to strengthen this exchange. There should be a fixed place for talks. Groups without religion should take part too.

The Greens want to create an office in Hamburg that informs and advises on new religious and ideological groups and so-called psycho-groups. The reason given is that some communities create psychological dependence and can thereby endanger individuals, families and society.

Some groups make people dependent on them. That can harm people and families. The Greens want a counseling office for this in Hamburg. People affected and their relatives can get help there.

The Greens want to strengthen consumer protection through information, education, transparency, and enforcement of rights. The consumer advice center is to be expanded further, and consumer education is to start in daycare centers and schools.

The Greens want to protect consumers better. Consumers are people who buy things or sign contracts. The consumer advice center should offer more services. Children in daycare and school should already learn about this.