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The Greens want to strengthen rural areas with meeting places, village shops, village offices and co-working spaces. The party rejects large retail developments outside town centers and outlet centers along highways, arguing that they drain purchasing power and generate traffic.

The Greens want to strengthen life in villages. They want to fund village shops and shared offices. There should be meeting places with culture and health services. The Greens do not want big shopping centers outside of towns.

Rural meeting places are to combine local shopping, culture, education and health services in one spot. The party notes that digital work lets new professions live in the countryside and names good transport and internet connections as a precondition. Community work in neighborhood initiatives, village community halls and district meeting places would be strengthened together with municipalities. Innovation clusters and model regions are meant to raise regional value creation. According to the program, large retail on undeveloped land harms city centers and village cores.

The Greens want to expand Lower Saxony's consumer advice center with more digital and more in-person advice. It should also be put in a position to bring collective actions and model declaratory lawsuits on behalf of consumers.

The consumer advice center helps people with shopping and contracts. The Greens want more advice online and in person. The center should also be able to go to court for many people at once.

The program sees consumers as playing a key role in the shift to a sustainable society and considers reliable information necessary for that. New formats such as mobile advice would be tested. The range of topics and the market-watchdog role would grow, especially in food, energy, finance and retirement planning, media, digitalization and sustainability. The consumer advice center would receive support so it can use the new European directive on representative actions.

The Greens want to fund sports across the state and give everyone access. Municipalities are to get more help maintaining sports facilities and pools and making them accessible, and clubs are to receive paid staff support. Elite sports and newer forms such as esports are also to be strengthened.

Everyone should be able to do sports. Every child should be able to learn to swim. Towns and cities should get help for sports fields and pools. Sports clubs should get paid helpers. Top athletes should get more support too.

Sports areas are to be a fixed part of housing and neighborhood planning, and existing facilities are to be renovated in a climate-friendly way. Inclusive offerings in school and recreational sports are to grow, and children from low-income families are to take part in clubs on equal terms. Together with municipalities and the state sports federation, funds for paid staff in clubs are to be provided; funding is to be applied for and settled fully digitally. New sports and club-based esports are to get more attention. A dual-career concept with training places is planned for elite athletes. Major sporting events are to be climate-neutral, sustainable and consistent with human rights, with early public participation.