Grüne on the economy

The Greens want to create conditions that lead power-hungry industries to set up in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The platform argues that the state has plenty of inexpensive renewable electricity and treats this as a location advantage.

Some factories need a lot of power. The Greens want to bring such factories to the state. They say the state has lots of cheap green power. This should create new jobs.

The platform lists battery plants, data centers, metal processing, and cement production as examples. In the Greens' view, cheap renewable electricity is a major advantage for the state that is not being used enough. The proposal follows the party's guiding idea that ecology and the economy belong together and that standing still would cost more jobs.

The Greens want Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to work more closely with the Hamburg metropolitan region and the neighboring northern states. Innovation and new jobs in rural areas in particular are meant to benefit.

Hamburg and the area around it have a strong economy. The Greens want to work more closely with that region. They also want to work with the neighboring states in the north. This should create new jobs, mostly in rural areas.

Cooperation is to be deepened on equal terms with the metropolitan region and with Hamburg, Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein. The platform wants to strengthen the innovation agency for this purpose. Support is to go to innovation, sustainable technologies, and future-proof jobs, especially in rural areas.

The Greens want public contracts and subsidies to reach companies in the state more often. Collectively agreed wage standards, good working conditions, and sustainability are to be observed consistently when contracts are awarded. The platform sees this as a way to secure small and mid-sized businesses and local jobs.

The government gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want more companies from the state to get these contracts. The companies should pay fair union-agreed wages. They should also protect the environment.

Regional firms are to be more involved in infrastructure projects, especially those paid for from the federal special fund. According to the platform, these investments should work twice: modernizing the state and strengthening local business. The Greens also want to promote regional value chains and market local products better beyond the state.

The Greens want a state strategy for the bioeconomy and the circular economy that involves all ministries. A statewide repair bonus is meant to make repairing electrical devices cheaper. The goal is to keep value creation in the state and create jobs.

The Greens want less waste and more reuse. The state should make a plan for this. People who get an electrical device repaired should get some money back. Companies that use natural raw materials should also get help.

The strategy is to cover waste prevention, repair, reusable packaging, recycling, reuse, and circular construction, with the public sector leading the way. According to the platform, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern should become a bioeconomy state. To that end, the use of peatlands, sustainable raw materials, and start-ups are to receive targeted support. The repair bonus applies to electrical and electronic devices.

The Greens want new state programs that help companies operate in ways that protect the environment and the climate. These include a program for corporate environmental management and one for social-ecological start-ups. According to the platform, sustainable business should become the standard.

The Greens want to help companies that protect the environment and the climate. The state should set up new funding programs for this. New companies with social and green goals also get help. People who start a company should get more money.

The ÖKOPROFIT MV program is to be run through the state development institute and help companies with environmental management. Another state program is to support social-ecological start-ups, business successions, and the sustainable conversion of existing firms. Local companies are to get more support for innovation and for switching to climate-friendly production. Funding for founders is to grow, with more flexible funding periods and better coordination with federal programs.

The Greens want to make it easier to start, run, and hand over a business. State laws are to be checked in advance for practicality, and funding programs for small and mid-sized firms are to be simplified. The platform sees bureaucracy as a brake on small and mid-sized business.

Small companies and tradespeople have a lot of paperwork. The Greens want to make this easier. New laws should be tested in real life first. Companies should only have to give their data to offices once.

The plan includes practicality checks for state laws and the removal of bureaucratic hurdles in dialogue with business and public administration. Government offices are to be service-oriented and apply the once-only principle, under which companies submit information just one time. Support for start-ups and business successions is to grow, and existing services are to be bundled and better connected.

The Greens want to support shipyards, ports, and maritime start-ups and to link research more closely with practice. The focus is on ship recycling, offshore wind, renewable propulsion, and climate-friendly shipping. This is meant to give shipyards reliable orders and keep jobs over the long term.

The state has many shipyards and ports. The Greens want to modernize them. Old ships should be taken apart and recycled here. New companies working with the sea get funding. Ports should get better rail links.

A state funding program for maritime start-ups is planned. Ship recycling is to be made possible through funding and simpler permits. Upgrades and expansions of shipyards are to be approved faster, for example through quicker security clearances for employees. Green shipping corridors are meant to bring new technology into use faster and strengthen ties with Nordic and Baltic neighbors. Port infrastructure is to be modernized and better connected to the hinterland by rail.

The Greens want to rewrite the state tourism law and focus it on sustainability and acceptance among local residents. Funding for tourism projects is to be tied to ecological and socioeconomic criteria. Year-round offerings are meant to extend the season and relieve heavily visited regions.

Many people vacation in the state. The Greens want a new law for tourism. Tourism should protect nature. There should be things to do all year. Less plastic and fertilizer should get into the Baltic Sea.

The state tourism company is to support the travel regions in their structural development. Plastic, nitrate, and phosphorus entering the Baltic Sea are to be reduced because, in the platform's view, algae blooms and fish die-offs drive away visitors and harm fishing. Investments in piers, bike paths, and public transit are meant to benefit visitors and residents alike. Health, wellness, and cultural offerings, along with indoor pools and leisure facilities, are meant to generate income throughout the year.

The Greens want to link universities more closely with business, society and the regions so that research findings are put to use more often. This includes a transfer strategy, support for university spin-offs and a state strategy for climate-neutral universities.

New ideas come from universities. The Greens want these ideas to reach companies more often. People who start a company out of a university should get help. The universities themselves should become climate neutral.

Regional innovation clusters are to be strengthened, especially in maritime technologies, sustainable agriculture and the bioeconomy. Spin-offs and start-ups are to get better conditions through equity funds and scale-up programs. Real-world labs and model regions are to be funded so that innovations can be tested together with partners from practice. A state strategy called “klimaneutrale Hochschule” (climate-neutral university), backed by an investment program, is meant to make operations, studies and research sustainable.