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The Greens want to support the consumer advice centers in building digital services and to substantially expand advice on energy and climate. The party regards independent consumer advice as an essential public service. The network of advice offices is to be funded for the long term.

Consumer advice centers help people, for example before buying solar panels. The Greens want more of this advice. Many services should be free. There should also be more advice online.

The digital advice formats created during the pandemic are to stay and grow because, according to the program, they especially help people who are less mobile. Advice on the energy transition and climate protection is to be greatly expanded and often free, since households face large investments. Together with the Verbraucherzentrale NRW (the state consumer advice organization), the advice offices are to be modernized, increased in number if necessary and given lasting financial security.

The Greens want to maintain sports facilities and convert them in a climate-friendly way, with financial support for municipalities. They put special emphasis on swimming pools and swimming lessons: every child should be able to learn to swim by the end of elementary school. The platform bases this on the role of sports in social cohesion and health.

The Greens want to fix sports fields, gyms and swimming pools. The buildings should become better for the climate. Cities and towns should get money for this. Every child should be able to learn to swim in elementary school. More people should volunteer in sports.

The funding program "Gute Sportstätten 2022" for club-owned facilities is to be evaluated and developed further. Municipalities are to receive money for the sustainable, climate-friendly conversion of sports facilities of all kinds. The platform calls for plastic-free alternatives for artificial turf fields and for converting formerly different-use land in neighborhoods into sports areas. Space for exercise and sports in neighborhoods is to become a funding criterion in future state urban development programs. Swimming lessons in schools and clubs are to be strengthened. Campaigns are meant to revive volunteering in sports after the COVID period.

The Greens want to regulate sports funding in North Rhine-Westphalia through a dedicated law and set up a state sports conference with all key players. Funding for the state sports federation is to become transparent and legally sound. Protection against violence in sports is also to be expanded.

The Greens want a law for funding sports. Everyone in NRW should be able to do sports. There should be a sports conference for the whole state. All the important people in sports talk to each other there. There should also be more protection against violence in sports.

The sports funding law is meant to ensure that everyone in the state can do sports according to their wishes and abilities. Funding for the Landessportbund NRW (state sports federation) is to follow good governance criteria, while the interests of athletes who do not belong to a club are also taken into account. Health prevention is to carry more weight in sports funding, especially for older people. Major sporting events are to be sustainable, with transparent costs and public participation. To fight physical, psychological and sexualized violence, the program "Schweigen schützt die Falschen" is to be developed further and an independent contact point set up.

The Greens want to introduce regular dialogue formats and fan hearings around sporting events to improve cooperation among everyone involved and strengthen efforts against violence and discrimination. They also want to support gaming culture and e-sports and have e-sports clubs recognized as nonprofit organizations.

The Greens want fans, clubs and police to talk to each other regularly. This should mean less violence and hate in sports. The Greens also want to support e-sports. E-sports means people play computer games as a competition. E-sports clubs should count as nonprofit.

The dialogue formats are to include organized fan groups, police, the Zentrale Informationsstelle Sporteinsätze (central police information office for sports operations), public order authorities, clubs, associations, fan projects and fan liaison officers. The platform explicitly treats the fan scene as part of civil society. For e-sports, the party wants to support joint projects with traditional sports to encourage exchange. Social issues such as racism and diversity are also to be part of funding in e-sports.