Grüne: program for the 2026 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

The Greens want to support mid-sized companies and industry in digitalization and climate-neutral production, among other things with a credit-financed RLP-Zukunftsfonds (future fund). In the party's view, economic success and climate protection belong together.

The Greens want to help small and mid-sized companies. The companies should become more digital and climate-friendly. There should be a future fund for this. The state would borrow money for it. Unneeded red tape should go.

The Greens want to make the Meisterbrief (master craftsman certificate) free of charge in order to tackle the shortage of skilled workers in the trades and lower financial barriers. In addition, dual vocational training is to become more attractive and starting a trade business easier to finance.

The Greens want the master craftsman certificate to be free. This should help more people become masters in a trade. People who start a business should get loans more easily. Trainees should get affordable housing and a cheaper ticket for buses and trains.

The Greens want to expand state support for new businesses and draw up a dedicated startup strategy for Rhineland-Palatinate. Young companies should get easier access to venture capital and stay in the state after their founding phase. The platform sees startups as drivers of innovation.

The Greens want more support for new companies. The state should make a plan for this. Founders should get money from investors more easily. The new companies should stay in the state.

The Greens focus on nature experiences in tourism and want to speed up the expansion of hiking and cycling trails. The state's protected areas would get more staff and funding. Recreation in nature and the preservation of biodiversity should be possible side by side.

The Greens want more vacations in nature. They want to build hiking and cycling trails faster. Protected areas should get more money and more staff. Animals and plants should stay protected.

The Greens want to double the number of businesses and facilities in the state certified under "Reisen für Alle" (Travel for All), a label for verified accessibility. Low-income families would also get more help with family vacations. According to the platform, vacations in the state should be open to everyone.

The Greens want vacations to be possible for everyone. More hotels and offers should be accessible. Accessible means people with disabilities can use them too. Families with little money should get more help for vacations.

The Greens want employees to choose more freely what full-time means for them, between 30 and 40 hours a week. They also want to promote the four-day week and create a right to paid caregiving leave so that work, family, care and volunteering fit together better.

The Greens want more flexible working hours. Workers should be able to choose between 30 and 40 hours a week. People who care for relatives should get paid during that time. This leaves more time for family and volunteering.

The Greens want to bring more people into work who currently have weaker chances on the labor market, and to expand existing state programs for that purpose. In the public sector, they want a modernized civil service law and a flat-rate health subsidy for civil servants.

There are not enough skilled workers. The Greens want to bring more people into jobs. Programs for jobless people and for women should grow. Civil servants should be freer to choose their health insurance.

The Greens want a fundamental reform of the state's Landestariftreuegesetz (collective-wage compliance law) so that public contracts go only to companies that honor collective agreements. Workplace safety is also to be expanded with more inspection staff.

The state gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want this: only companies that pay agreed union wages get contracts. There should also be more checks for safe workplaces.

The Greens want to support people in poverty with more counseling, municipal social passes and a statewide subsidized transit ticket for benefit recipients. The platform rejects sanctions, which in its view exclude people from society.

The Greens want to help poor people. There should be more advice for people with debts. Poor people should get a cheap ticket for buses and trains. People without health insurance should also get help.

The Greens want to expand programs against loneliness for older people and build new ones for young people. The platform sees loneliness as a risk to health, social cohesion and trust in democracy.

Many people feel lonely. That can make them sick. The Greens want more projects for old and young people. There should be more places to meet, also in the countryside.

The Greens want more people with disabilities employed in the regular labor market and in the state civil service. Work in sheltered workshops should be the exception and be better paid.

People with disabilities should find regular jobs more easily. The state itself should hire more of them. In sheltered workshops they should earn more money. Companies only get state contracts if they employ enough people with disabilities.

The Greens want to continue and expand the "Housing First" approach in Rhineland-Palatinate. Under it, homeless people first get a home of their own and then further support. Drop-in cafés are to be funded as well.

Some people have no home. With "Housing First" they get a home first. After that they get more help. The Greens want to make this program bigger. They also want to fund cafés for homeless people.

The Greens want to use the states' new borrowing leeway to set up an "RLP-Zukunftsfonds" (Rhineland-Palatinate future fund). It would mainly help companies shift to climate-neutral production. In the long run, the debt brake should be reformed so that borrowing is allowed up to the level of public investment.

The Greens want a new fund for Rhineland-Palatinate. A fund is a pot of money for one purpose. The state may take on new debt for it. The money should help companies become climate-friendly. The Greens also want to change the rules on state debt.

The Greens want to push at state and federal level for what they see as a fairer tax system, with large fortunes and capital gains contributing more. At the same time, the state tax administration should get more staff for company audits to uncover tax evasion and undeclared work.

The Greens want to share the tax burden differently. Very rich people should pay more. Today many people pay more tax on wages than on investment gains. The state should also hire more tax auditors. They should find tax fraud in companies.

The Greens want to strengthen municipal finances. The federal government should pay for the tasks it assigns to municipalities and help with their old debts. In the state, the municipal revenue-sharing system is to be reviewed, and climate protection is to become a mandatory municipal task.

Many towns and villages are short of money. The Greens say the federal government should pay for the tasks it sets. It should also help with old debts. The state will check whether towns get enough money. Climate protection should become a duty for towns.

The Greens want to create housing mainly in existing buildings: through conversion, adding stories, attic conversions and filling gaps between buildings. The state building code is to be fundamentally revised so that building becomes cheaper without easing off on climate and environmental protection. Building applications should be possible digitally everywhere.

The Greens want more homes in existing buildings. It should be easier to convert houses and add floors. Building should become cheaper. For this, the state's building rules should be simpler. People should be able to file building applications online everywhere.

The Greens want the state of Rhineland-Palatinate to secure land through a state development company or make it available under long-term ground leases. Land should go to the best concept rather than the highest bid, so that municipalities can steer development by social and environmental criteria.

The Greens want to set up a new state company. It should secure land for the state and for towns. Land should go to whoever has the best plan. The highest price should not decide. Empty houses in villages should be used again.

The Greens want to provide more money for subsidized housing and to fund renovation, added floors and conversions on equal terms with new construction. Social housing should stay rent-restricted for longer and thus remain affordable. Municipal housing companies are to be strengthened or newly founded.

The Greens want more low-cost homes. The state should spend more money on them. Renovation and conversion should get money too. Social housing should stay cheap for longer. Cities should be able to set up their own housing companies.

The Greens want existing housing to be used more efficiently. People who want to downsize or split their living space should get state guarantees and loans for the conversion. The party also supports municipal vacancy taxes and vacancy registers.

Some people have more space than they need. They can convert and share their house. The state should lend them money for that. The Greens also want a tax on empty homes. Municipalities should be able to introduce this tax.

The Greens want to subsidize barrier-free conversions even for people without an assessed care level, and to give more support to inclusive and communal forms of housing. New dorm places are to be created for students and trainees. The aim is housing that allows independent living close to home at any age.

The Greens want to fund homes without barriers. This should work even without an official care level. People with and without disabilities should be able to live together. Old and young should be able to share homes. Students and trainees should get more dorm places.

The Greens want the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and the cap on rent increases to apply in more cities and districts than today. To that end, local conditions should be assessed at a finer scale. Exceptions for furnished or fixed-term rentals should be removed.

The rent brake limits how much rents may rise. Today it applies in only a few places in the state. The Greens want it in more places. They also want more checks. The same rules should apply to furnished apartments.

The Greens want to expand funding for town centers and bring vacant buildings back into use. In villages they favor renovation and conversion in the core rather than building on new land. Meeting places, village offices and reliable basic services are meant to secure rural life.

The Greens want lively town centers. Towns should get more money for this. Empty shops and houses should be used again. In villages, old houses should be converted instead of building new ones. There should be meeting places, shops and buses.

The Greens want to scrap daycare fees for children under two as well and make it easier to combine family and work. At the federal level, they are pushing for child sick pay at full wage level and a reform of Elterngeld (parental allowance).

The Greens want daycare to cost nothing. This should also apply to children under two. Parents should be able to combine work and family better. Fathers should also take longer parental leave.

The Greens call for abolishing Ehegattensplitting, the joint tax assessment of married couples. They also want to ease the burden on families with a family box at birth, an automatically available family card, and lower taxes on children's products.

Married couples often pay less tax today. This is called Ehegattensplitting. The Greens want to end it. Parents should get a box with important things when a baby is born. Things for children should be taxed less.

The Greens want no child to grow up in poverty and will push at the federal level for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit) and more money for education and participation. They also want children's right to political participation written into the federal Basic Law and the state constitution.

The Greens want to end child poverty. They want a basic child benefit. That is money from the state for children. Children should also have more of a say. This right should be written into the constitution.

The Greens want to expand and better connect counseling and support services for families in difficult situations. Early intervention is to last longer, and parents with disabilities as well as young people leaving youth welfare care are to get more support.

Some families get into trouble. The Greens want to help them faster. There should be more places that give advice. More family midwives are planned too. Parents with disabilities should get more help in daily life.

The Greens want to protect children better against violence and sexual abuse. By 2029 at the latest, every institution working with children is to have a mandatory protection plan, and the state pact against sexualized violence is to be implemented.

Children should grow up without violence. Schools, clubs and summer camps should have a protection plan by 2029. The plan says how children are kept safe there. Children who were harmed should get more help and advice.

The Greens want to permanently embed education for sustainable development from daycare through adult education. People active in nature, environmental and climate protection would get long-term funding. The state's environmental education office would become a statewide networking hub.

The Greens want everyone to learn about sustainability. Sustainability means living in a way that does not harm nature. This should be taught in daycare, schools and adult classes. People who work for the environment should get funding for a long time.

The Greens want to give the state's universities reliable core funding and strengthen basic research. Universities are also meant to lead on climate protection, and students are to get more say.

The Greens want to give universities enough money. Universities should protect the climate. Solar panels will go on their roofs. Students should have more say.

The Greens want to give the Studierendenwerke (student services organizations) more money and push for a reform of BAföG (federal student aid). The aid should offset rising costs, especially for housing, and reach more students.

The Greens want to give student services more money. These run dorms and cafeterias. BAföG should get better. BAföG is state money for students. More students should be able to get it.

The Greens want to make academic employment more secure and predictable. Following Bremen's example, more permanent mid-level academic positions are to be created, and at the federal level the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (law on fixed-term academic contracts) is to be fundamentally reformed.

Many researchers only have short-term contracts. The Greens want more permanent jobs at universities. Pay should be fair. Women should be equally represented at every level.

The Greens want findings from universities to reach society and business more effectively. Every university is to get an innovation hub, and transfer is to be guided by the sustainable development goals.

Knowledge from universities should help everyone. The Greens want an innovation hub at every university. This is a place where researchers and companies meet. People get help there with starting a company.

The Greens want to increase the number of places to study medicine by extending models such as the medical campuses in Trier and Koblenz to other locations. The platform argues that good health care starts with good training.

The Greens want more places to study medicine. Trier and Koblenz already have such programs. More towns should follow. Training for nursing should also matter more.

The Greens want to create enough daycare places and recruit more skilled staff, in part through paid on-the-job training. They also plan an inclusion budget for daycare centers, better working conditions and a mandatory language assessment before children start school.

The Greens want more daycare places. There should be more daycare teachers. Their training should be well paid. All children should take a language test before school. Children with disabilities should be able to take part in daycare.

The Greens want to give all-day schools more money and staff and expand them at elementary schools across the state. All-day classes are to become the norm so that lessons, exercise and free time can be spread over the day.

The Greens want more all-day schools. Children stay there in the afternoon too. There should be music, sports, nature and art. Whole classes should spend the day at school together. Schools get more money and staff for this.

The Greens call for a state program to renovate contaminated classrooms and sanitary facilities at schools. School buildings are also to become accessible and better protected against heat.

Many school buildings are in bad shape. The Greens want a program to fix them. Rooms with harmful substances and toilets should be renewed. Schools should get protection from heat. Everyone should be able to get in without barriers.

The Greens want all teachers in the state, including elementary school teachers, to start at pay grade A13 or E13. Teachers are to have less administrative work, teacher training is to become more hands-on, and curricula are to be slimmed down.

Elementary school teachers should earn as much as teachers at other schools. Teachers should have less office work. More social workers and psychologists should help at schools. Curricula should be shorter. Schools should decide more for themselves.

The Greens want joint classes for children with and without disabilities, and with and without a migration background, to become the norm. They favor longer shared learning over early tracking, far more Integrierte Gesamtschulen (comprehensive schools) and a free school lunch.

All children should learn together. That includes children with disabilities. The Greens want no more repeating a grade. There should be many more comprehensive schools. No child should leave school without a diploma. School lunch should be free.

The Greens want to expand democracy and civic education from daycare through adult education and give students more of a say. The party rejects recruitment efforts by the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) at schools and wants to act firmly against far-right incidents.

Children and young people should learn more about democracy. This should start in daycare. Students should have more say at school. Every student should visit a memorial site. The army should not recruit at schools.

The Greens want well-equipped vocational schools and inter-company training centers and want all schools to be able to hold practical days. They also plan pilot projects for a dual upper secondary track, a voluntary service year after ninth grade with a right to return, and a right to attend school up to age 25.

The Greens want to strengthen job training. Students should have regular hands-on days. In trials, young people should earn a diploma and a trade certificate together. Teens should be able to do a volunteer year after grade 9. Then they can come back to school. Everyone should be allowed to go to school until 25.

The Greens see public-interest continuing education as part of essential public services and plan a new state law for it. The law is meant to make continuing education accessible in cities and rural areas, online and in person, regardless of income.

Adults should be able to learn all their lives. The Greens plan a new law for this. There should be courses in cities and in the countryside. Online too. Having little money should not be a barrier.

The Greens want to implement the hospital reform in the state quickly and set up “Regiokliniken” (regional clinics) in underserved areas. Necessary maternity hospitals are to be kept, and midwives are to get more support.

The Greens want new regional clinics where doctors and hospitals are missing. These offer treatment and care in one place. Important maternity hospitals should stay open. Midwives should get more support and fair pay.

The Greens want people with mental illness to get treatment faster and call on the federal level to allow more insurance-funded practice slots for therapists. In the state, help for young people in crisis and counseling centers are to receive more funding.

People with mental illness often wait a long time for help. The Greens want more therapy places. Young people in crisis should find help more easily. Counseling centers and self-help groups should get more money.

The Greens want to remove barriers to medical care. They plan services for disadvantaged regions and groups and a funding program for accessible doctors' offices.

The Greens want everyone to be able to see a doctor. There should be help for people without a home. Doctors' offices should be easy to enter for people with disabilities. The state should pay for this.

The Greens want to limit the health effects of the climate crisis. The state's heat action plan is to be developed further, and municipalities would have to draw up their own plans.

The Greens say the climate crisis makes people sick. Extreme heat is one example. Every town should make a plan against heat. Hospitals should also prepare better for heat.

The Greens want to secure access to general practitioners and specialists everywhere in the state. This includes mobile services, telemedicine, municipal care centers and abortion services close to home.

The Greens want enough doctors everywhere in the state. In rural areas, doctors should also come to the people. There should be more video appointments. Anyone who wants to end a pregnancy should find help nearby.

The Greens want to end AIDS by 2030. To that end, education, support services and rapid HIV tests are to be expanded, and access to preventive medication made easier.

The Greens want to end the disease AIDS by 2030. There should be more information. There should be more rapid tests. People with HIV should not be treated worse than others.

The Greens call for a universal Bürgerversicherung (single citizens' health insurance). Until the federal government introduces it, state civil servants are to be able to choose statutory health insurance.

The Greens want one health insurance for everyone. The federal government decides on that. Until then, state civil servants should get a choice. They could then join the public health insurance.

The Greens want outpatient and hospital care to be planned jointly and regionally. Emergency care is also to become faster, including through integrated emergency centers and local first responders.

The Greens want to plan health care better. Doctors' offices and hospitals should work together more closely. Help should come faster in an emergency. One idea is a rescue helicopter that can fly at night.

The Greens want to carry the partial legalization of cannabis further and allow sales in state-regulated outlets. Pilot projects are to take place in Rhineland-Palatinate as well, in order to push back the black market.

Adults may own small amounts of cannabis today. The Greens want to go further. There should be shops that the state controls. Adults could buy cannabis there. This should shrink the illegal trade.

The Greens want to expand easy-access drug and addiction services to reduce health risks. Substance analysis, known as drug checking, is to be made possible for the first time in the state.

The Greens want more help for people with addiction. There should be rooms where people can use drugs more safely. People should be able to have drugs tested for dangerous substances. Schools should teach more about drugs.

The Greens want a policy for older people built on self-determination and participation. It includes a law to support seniors, neighborhood networks, new forms of housing and a stronger voice for older people in municipalities.

The Greens want older people to take part and have a say. A new law should help with that. Neighbors should help each other. Older people should be able to live at home for a long time. They should help decide things in their town.

The Greens want to relieve people who care for relatives at home. They plan more respite services, a state program for combining work and care, and a push at the federal level for paid care leave.

Many people care for family members at home. The Greens want to help them. There should be more care services for single days or nights. People who pause work to give care should get money to replace their pay. The federal government decides on that.

The Greens want better working conditions, pay and career prospects for nurses, along with new training models. Training in allied health professions is to remain free of tuition, and health workers are to be better protected from violence.

The Greens want better jobs for nurses. They should be paid well. Training should also be possible part-time. Skilled workers from abroad should get help settling in. Training in health professions should stay free of school fees.

The Greens want to improve access to abortion and push at federal level for repealing Section 218 of the Criminal Code. Abortions in the first twelve weeks should be lawful rather than merely exempt from punishment. In addition, contraceptives are to be free everywhere and period products freely available.

The Greens want to make it easier for women to end a pregnancy. Section 218 of the criminal law should go. An abortion up to week 12 should be legal. Contraceptives should be free everywhere. Period products should also be freely available.

The Greens want refugees to move quickly from initial reception centers into towns and villages. Municipalities are to get support in expanding their capacity, and children are to gain early access to school.

Refugees should not stay long in large shelters. They should move quickly into towns and villages. The Greens want to help the towns with this. Children should go to school as early as possible.

The Greens want to set up a central state office that bundles integration, immigration and returns and relieves municipalities. A state integration law is to lock in firm rules and structures.

The Greens want a new state office. It handles integration, immigration and returns. Returns means that people have to leave the country. A new law should set firm rules for integration. Families should be able to join their relatives more easily.

The Greens see language and work as the keys to participation. They want to expand language courses and interpreting, recognize qualifications faster and secure a right to stay for well-integrated people in work or training.

The Greens want more German courses for immigrants. Degrees from other countries should be accepted faster. People who work here and support themselves should be allowed to stay. Refugees who went through hard times should get more help.

The Greens want to identify refugees with special protection needs early and give them targeted support, for example families, children and traumatized people. They will examine deportation stops for vulnerable groups and state-run admission programs. They reject detention-like housing under the EU asylum reform (GEAS).

Some refugees need special protection. These include children, families and people with mental trauma. The Greens want to find these people early and help them. They will check whether the state can stop deporting such people. They reject housing that is like a prison.

The Greens want successful integration to count for more when deciding whether a person may remain. Families, children, young people and people with jobs should not be deported. Those who commit serious crimes and reject the Basic Law, by contrast, should have to leave.

The Greens want this: people who are well integrated should be more likely to stay. Families, children and young people should not be deported. The same goes for people who work. People who commit serious crimes should leave the country.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be able to represent their own interests through professional structures. To that end, municipal advisory councils and commissioners are to be established across the state and political participation expanded.

People with disabilities should be able to speak up for their own rights. Every county and big city should have a council for this. Voting should be possible without barriers. There should be offers in easy-to-read language.

The Greens want to make all state-owned buildings accessible by 2035 and enforce digital accessibility. The state action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to be updated, and state law checked against the convention.

All state buildings should be free of barriers by 2035. Websites of the state and towns should work for everyone. Blind people should get more money. The state should think of people with disabilities in every decision.

The Greens call on the federal government to replace Ehegattensplitting (joint tax splitting for married couples) with individual taxation, because in their view it structurally disadvantages women. At state level, a program is to support companies that voluntarily review their pay and close gaps between women and men. Equal opportunity officers are to get a stronger position.

Married couples today often pay taxes together. The Greens say this is unfair to women. Each person should be taxed alone. Companies should get help if they pay women and men the same. Equal opportunity officers should get a stronger role.

The Greens want to keep expanding women's shelters, transitional housing, emergency hotlines and intervention centers, and to fully implement the Istanbul Convention in the state. The federal Gewalthilfegesetz (violence assistance act), which grants a right to free protection and counseling from 2032, is to be implemented consistently. Prevention and stricter federal rules are added to this.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. There should be more places in women's shelters. Hotlines and counseling should grow too. Harassing women with shouts on the street should become a crime. Boys and young men should learn early to solve conflicts without violence.

The Greens want a state anti-discrimination act to close gaps in protection and give affected people ways to defend themselves. An eased burden of proof is to apply in discrimination law. Counseling centers are to be expanded and the state action plan against racism continued.

No one should be treated unfairly, for example because of skin color, religion or disability. The Greens want a state law for this. It should help people defend themselves. There should be more counseling centers. Schools and public offices should offer courses against racism.

The Greens want to better protect queer people from violence and hostility, including through permanently funded centers in all larger cities and an updated state action plan. The state constitution is to name sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics. Parentage law is to be modernized and multi-parent families given legal security.

Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The Greens want to protect them better from violence. Large cities should have permanent meeting places with counseling. The state constitution should clearly protect queer people. Children should be able to have more than two parents with custody.

The Greens want to write climate protection into the Rhineland-Palatinate state constitution as a state goal. This is meant to make responsibility for the livelihoods of future generations legally binding. The party stands by the target of climate neutrality by 2040.

The Greens want to put climate protection into the state constitution. The constitution is the most important law of the state. Then the state must always protect the climate. This should also help people in the future.

The Greens want to turn the state-owned development bank ISB into a "climate bank" that gives stronger support to investment in climate neutrality, energy efficiency and sustainability. Older and poorer homeowners in particular are to get help with energy retrofits.

The state has its own development bank. It is called ISB. The Greens want to make it a climate bank. The bank should give money for climate protection and saving energy. Poor and older homeowners should get help first.

The Greens want to continue the Kommunaler Klimapakt (municipal climate pact) and the KIPKI investment program and turn them into a permanent climate protection budget for all municipalities. Cities and towns should be able to carry out projects with little red tape.

Cities and villages should get money for climate protection every year. The Greens call this KIPKI 2.0. The places should be able to use the money easily. A state agency should advise them.

The Greens want to initiate a Bürgerenergiegesetz (citizen energy law) within the first 100 days after taking office. Residents and host municipalities are to receive money from wind and solar installations so that more value stays in the region and local budgets benefit.

The Greens want to make a new law. It is called the citizen energy law. Wind turbines and solar plants earn money. Local people and towns should get a share of it. The law should come very soon after the election.

The Greens want to speed up the expansion of power grids and make it cheaper. A new state-level office is to coordinate grid and storage expansion, backed by a storage strategy. Limits on feeding renewable electricity into the grid are to be removed.

The Greens want to build power grids faster. A new state office should steer this. The state should also plan power storage. Then power is there when people need it. Green power should flow into the grid without limits.

The Greens want to further expand wind power, relying on fixed land targets, a large pool of suitable sites, less bureaucracy and more staff. Cooperation with nature conservation is to continue in order to avoid conflicts.

The Greens want to build more wind turbines. There should be fixed targets for land. The offices should get more staff. Permits should come faster. Nature groups should have a say.

The Greens want to use the state's solar law to put more photovoltaics on buildings and already sealed surfaces. An easily accessible advisory service is to accompany the expansion.

The Greens want more solar panels. They should go mainly on roofs and built-up land. For example on parking lots. People should get simple advice on this.

The Greens want to advance the heating transition with advice for municipalities, residents and energy cooperatives. A platform is to disclose prices for district and local heating. Deep geothermal energy is to be supported through clear procedures.

The Greens want to support climate-friendly heating. Towns should get advice on heating networks. A heating network brings heat through pipes to many homes. A website should show district heating prices. Heat from deep underground should also be used.

The Greens want a state strategy to preserve biogas plants as a source of energy and heat. The plants are to supply power more flexibly and mainly process residual materials.

The Greens want to keep biogas plants. The state should make a plan for this. The plants should deliver power when it is missing. They should mainly use waste, such as food waste and manure.

The Greens want to implement the state's hydrogen strategy and build a hydrogen economy for business and industry. A state hydrogen competence center is to be set up for this purpose.

The Greens want more green hydrogen in the state. Hydrogen is a gas that stores energy. Companies and factories should be able to use it. The state should found its own center for this.

The Greens want to expand the existing "Eff-Check" advisory service into a "climate check for small and mid-sized businesses and skilled trades." Companies would get concrete suggestions on saving energy and becoming climate neutral. Climate technologies would also become a fixed part of vocational training in the trades.

The Greens want to advise companies on climate protection. There is already a service called Eff-Check. It should become a climate check for smaller companies and trades. Companies then get tips on saving energy. Trainees in the trades should learn more about heat pumps and solar power.

The Greens oppose longer operating lives for nuclear plants and the construction of new ones anywhere in Europe. They point to risks in normal operation, in disasters and in war, and to dependence on uranium imports. They want the plants near the border at Cattenom, Tihange and Doel shut down.

The Greens are against nuclear power plants. They want no new plants in Europe. Old plants should not run longer. The party says nuclear power is dangerous and expensive. Three plants near the border should be shut down.

The Greens call on the federal government to set an effective carbon price that is socially balanced by a Klimageld (climate dividend paid to residents). They also want to make electricity cheaper by lowering charges and levies. They say the federal government must not shirk its climate responsibility at the expense of future generations.

The Greens want a price on CO₂. CO₂ is a gas that harms the climate. People should get money back for this. This payment is called Klimageld. Electricity should also become cheaper.

The Greens want to make solar installations mandatory for new buildings and major roof renovations. At the same time, rules for installing solar systems are to be simplified. New buildings should also get green roofs and facades and make use of rainwater.

The Greens want a requirement for solar panels. It applies to new buildings. It also applies when a roof is fully renovated. The rules for installing solar panels should become simpler. New buildings should get green roofs.

The Greens want to make the state's own properties climate-neutral. The state is meant to lead by example on the way to a climate-neutral Rhineland-Palatinate.

The state owns many buildings. These include universities, police stations and courts. The Greens want to make these buildings climate-neutral. That means they should no longer harm the climate. The state should set an example.

The Greens want to remove paved surfaces across the state and add more greenery to towns and villages. Climate-adapted land-use planning is to become binding in the state. People who unseal private land should benefit through lower stormwater charges.

Towns and villages have a lot of concrete. Rain cannot soak into the ground there. The Greens want more green and less concrete. Municipalities should have to plan for heat and rain. People who remove concrete on their land should get a reward.

The Greens want stronger protection for species and habitats, guided by the EU Nature Restoration Law. Protected areas are to be upgraded, expanded and linked together. Nature conservation stations would be set up across the state.

The Greens want to protect animals and plants better. Protected areas should grow and be linked to each other. Farmers in nature reserves should farm organically. There should be conservation stations all over the state. Experts there work together with towns and farmers.

The Greens want to curb the spread of PFAS, pesticides, antibiotics and other problematic chemicals, relying on the precautionary and polluter-pays principles. Inspection and monitoring programs are to continue and grow. Municipalities would get help with packaging taxes and reusable container systems.

The Greens want fewer harmful chemicals in the environment. These include pesticides, for example. Pesticides are products used against pests. Whoever pollutes should pay for the cleanup. Towns should be able to tax packaging.

The Greens want to convert forests into near-natural, climate-stable mixed woodland and keep more water in the forest. New natural forest reserves are to be created and the national park strengthened. The forestry administration is to attract skilled staff and become climate neutral.

The Greens want to protect the forests. Many different trees should grow in the forest. Such forests cope better with heat and drought. Some forests should develop with no human interference. The national park should get more services.

The Greens want to give rivers more room, hold water back in the landscape and organize flood protection across municipal borders. A climate adaptation law would support municipalities and farmers in adapting. Drinking water supply and wastewater treatment plants are to be modernized.

The Greens want better protection against floods. Rivers and streams should get more room. Then water can spread out during a flood. A new law should help towns adapt to the climate. Drinking water should also stay safe.

The Greens want more support for animal shelters, wildlife centers and animal welfare groups, along with clearer rules for keeping animals. These include a competence certificate for first-time dog owners and a ban on dangerous exotic animals in private hands. A new state animal welfare commissioner would be created.

The Greens want to help animal shelters more. First-time dog owners should prove they know how to keep a dog. Every new dog should have insurance. Dangerous animals like venomous snakes should be banned in private homes. The state should get an animal welfare commissioner.

The Greens want to reduce private fireworks to ease the burden on people, animals and the environment. Cities and towns should be able to designate fireworks-free zones on a secure legal footing. Nationwide, the party favors a year-round ban on sales for private use.

The Greens want fewer private fireworks. They say fireworks are hard on people, animals and the environment. Cities should be able to ban fireworks in certain places. Ideally, no one could buy fireworks for private use anymore. That should apply all over Germany.

The Greens want to bring land consumption down step by step to net zero and below one hectare by 2030. Existing sites and town centers are to take priority over new development on the outskirts. A land agency and an unsealing campaign are meant to help.

The Greens want less new land to be built on. By 2030, land use should be below one hectare. Empty buildings and old business sites should be used first. Paved ground should be opened up again. A new agency should advise towns on this.

The Greens want to improve animal welfare in agriculture and name the end of industrial factory farming as their goal. Instead, husbandry with outdoor access and grazing is to be supported.

The Greens want to protect farm animals better. They want to end factory farming. Animals should have room to move and go out to pasture. Farms with animals should be inspected more often. There should be stricter rules for transporting animals.

The Greens want to move step by step toward a circular economy and use more recycled materials, especially in construction. The program justifies this with more resilient supply chains, geopolitical independence and industrial strength.

The Greens want materials to be reused more often. This is called a circular economy. Public offices should buy more recycled material. Waste should be collected separately more carefully. Organic waste should also be turned into energy.

The Greens want to raise the share of organic farming in Rhineland-Palatinate significantly and give it more weight in farm subsidies. The existing organic action plan is to be broadened into a state food and nutrition strategy.

The Greens want more organic farming in Rhineland-Palatinate. Organic farms should get more support. There should be a bigger plan for food and nutrition. The Greens also want to protect farmland from speculation.

The Greens want farms to use significantly fewer pesticides and call for a pesticide levy to be examined at the federal level. At the same time, farming and nature conservation are to cooperate more closely, and soils are to be supported as carbon stores.

The Greens want fewer pesticides on fields. Pesticides are chemicals against pests and weeds. The federal government should look into a charge on pesticides. Farmers and conservation groups should work together more. Healthy soil should store more CO₂.

The Greens want to expand organic winegrowing significantly and help the wine sector adapt to the climate crisis and drought. Steep-slope vineyards are to be preserved and supported as culturally and ecologically valuable sites.

The Greens want more organic winegrowing in Rhineland-Palatinate. Winegrowers should need fewer pesticides. Hardy grape varieties should help with that. The steep vineyards should be kept. Wine festivals and seasonal wine taverns should stay.

The Greens want public transit to be funded at least on par with cars. At least half of the state money for municipal transport infrastructure would go to public transit. Municipalities would also be allowed to introduce their own local transit levies.

The Greens want more money for buses and trains. At least half the money for local transport infrastructure should go there. Towns should be allowed to create their own transit fee. Buses and trains should also run early and late.

The Greens want to modernize the state's rail network and bring disused lines back into service. A state-owned infrastructure company would drive expansion and reactivation. From the federal government they demand more long-distance service, additional tracks and an alternative route to the Middle Rhine Valley.

The Greens want better trains in the state. Old rail lines should run again. The state should set up its own company for this. The federal government should build more tracks and provide more long-distance trains.

The Greens want to keep the Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass), hold its price low and make it family-friendly. School students and people doing voluntary service would get it for free, and apprentices at a discount for now. The platform justifies this with social participation and climate-friendly mobility.

The Greens want to keep the Deutschlandticket. It is a pass for local transit across Germany. It should stay cheap. School students should get it for free. People in voluntary service should not pay either. Apprentices should pay less.

The Greens want to make cycling a transport policy priority, with more money and staff in the responsible agencies. Building, rebuilding and repairing bike paths would increase significantly, and procedures would be simplified. Safe cycling connections should link all municipalities and key destinations within towns.

The Greens want to do more for cycling. There should be many more bike paths. Building them should be faster and easier. People should be able to ride safely to school, daycare and transit stops.

The Greens pursue "Vision Zero," meaning no deaths or serious injuries in road traffic. To that end, a 30 km/h speed limit should become the norm in cities and villages. Municipalities should also find it easier to set up school streets.

The Greens want no one to die in traffic anymore. In cities and villages, the usual speed limit should be 30 km/h. Towns should be able to close streets near schools to cars more easily. This should make the way to school safer.

The Greens want to set up significantly more mobility hubs where people can switch between sharing services, bikes, and buses and trains. A mobility control center would better coordinate connections between trains and buses. The platform sees combining several modes of transport as key to climate-friendly mobility.

The Greens want to make changing transport easier. There should be more hubs where people switch modes. These offer shared bikes, shared cars, buses and trains, for example. A central office should coordinate connections better.

The Greens give priority to repairing roads, and bridges in particular, over new construction. They reject several major expansion projects, which they consider outdated. New federal and state road projects would be put under review.

The Greens want to fix old roads and bridges first. They mostly do not want to build big new roads. They reject several planned expansion projects. All plans for new roads should be checked again.

The Greens want to expand charging infrastructure for electric vehicles quickly and according to need, especially in rural areas. The official vehicle fleets of the state and its agencies would switch to electric. They also want to advance climate-friendly propulsion in inland shipping.

The Greens want more charging stations for electric cars, especially in rural areas. The state's official cars should run on electricity. Ships should become cleaner too. More goods should travel by ship instead of by truck.

The Greens want a discounted Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) for young people in training, at university or in voluntary service, and for volunteers. They also want new, affordable housing options for young people.

Young people often have little money. The Greens want a cheaper Deutschlandticket for them. That is a pass for buses and trains. Volunteers should get it too. There should be more cheap housing for young people.

The Greens want every household and business in urban and rural areas to have fiber internet and reliable mobile coverage, with 5G as the statewide standard. Where companies do not build networks on their own, the state would continue targeted subsidies. According to the platform, digital access should not depend on income or location.

The Greens want fast internet for everyone. Fiber and good cell service should reach every place. Sometimes companies do not build the network on their own. Then the state should help pay for it.

The Greens want to make the state's digital infrastructure more independent and resilient. They rely on open source, independent cloud services and open standards to reduce dependence on large international tech companies and to safeguard data protection. A state open-source strategy would define responsibilities and goals.

The Greens want the state to be more independent with its computers. It should rely less on big tech companies. So the state should use open software. With open software, anyone can see the program code.

The Greens want all government services to be available centrally and, where possible, digitally. To that end, the state's service portal is to be strengthened, electronic files introduced everywhere, and a shared IT infrastructure built for the state and municipalities.

The Greens want people to handle government matters online. There should be one portal for everything. The services should be barrier-free and in several languages. Offices should work with digital files.

The Greens want above all to enable children and teenagers to use digital media in a self-determined and critical way, while also creating safeguards. At the federal level, platforms are to face stronger obligations and effective age checks are to be introduced.

Children should learn to use the internet well. For the Greens, a phone ban alone is not enough. Platforms like Instagram should check users' age. There should be networks against sexual violence online.

The Greens want to equip schools with digital infrastructure, devices and technical support and aim for free digital learning materials. Instead of blanket cell phone bans, students are to learn to deal critically with media and AI.

Schools should get good technology and devices. There should be help when problems come up. Teachers should be trained to use digital tools. Children should learn to spot fakes online. The Greens do not want a general phone ban.

The Greens want more police officers in the long run and better working conditions in the force. At the same time, the police are to become more diverse, with more people with a migration background and more women in leadership. Buildings are to be renovated under an overall plan.

The Greens want more police officers in the state. Working for the police should get better. More women should become leaders. More people with a migration background should join the police. Old police buildings should be renovated.

The Greens want to scrap or fundamentally revise police powers they consider useless, including remote searches of devices. People who are stopped should get a receipt, and bodycams should be switched on by default during operations. Electronic ankle monitors are to be used on the Spanish model against femicides.

The Greens want to remove or change some police powers. One example is secretly searching computers. People who are stopped should get a receipt. Police body cameras should always be on during operations. Violent offenders should wear an electronic ankle monitor.

The Greens want to build a system to detect and counter drones and to better protect critical infrastructure. Organized crime and environmental crime are to be fought more intensively. The domestic intelligence service is to become more capable while remaining under clear democratic oversight.

The Greens want to detect and stop drones better. Important facilities like power grids should be better protected. Agencies should work together more closely, also across borders. The domestic intelligence service should be stronger and well controlled. Local enforcement officers should not get tasers.

The Greens want to expand open prisons so that jail terms served in place of unpaid fines can also be carried out there. Education, therapy and help finding housing are meant to prevent reoffending. On youth crime, the platform relies on educational approaches and prevention.

The Greens want more open prisons. Inmates there have more freedom than in a regular prison. Inmates should get education and therapy. That way they should not commit crimes again later. For young offenders, education should come first.

The Greens want to further strengthen fire and disaster protection, with statewide uniform standards, a law on dispatch centers and more full-time support for volunteers. Critical infrastructure is to be protected through joint risk and crisis management. The public is to be better prepared for emergencies.

The Greens want the state to be better prepared for disasters. Fire departments should be equally well equipped everywhere. Volunteers should get more help from paid staff. Students should practice with the fire department. In an emergency, there should be information in many languages.

The Greens want to develop the state transparency law further and create a lobby register requiring disclosure of meetings between interest groups and the government. Public data is to be free to use, and data protection and cybersecurity are to be strengthened.

The Greens want a lobby register. It shows which groups meet with the government. Government data should be free for everyone. The state should protect people's data better.

The Greens want a youth participation act that introduces a youth impact check for all laws and sets uniform rules for participation in municipalities. They stand by a voting age of 16 for state and local elections and want better funding for youth work.

Young people should have more say in politics. Every new law should be checked: What does it mean for young people? Young people should have fixed rights in every town. The Greens want voting from age 16. Youth work should get more money.

The Greens want to relaunch the reform of local government and create larger administrative units. The platform argues that the state's very fragmented municipal structure hampers digitalization, recruitment and efficiency. The division of tasks between levels of government is also to be reviewed.

Rhineland-Palatinate has very many small municipalities. The Greens say this slows down public offices. They want larger administrative units. Offices should work well with digital tools. Higher authorities should take over some tasks.

The Greens are pushing at federal level for a Demokratiefördergesetz (democracy promotion act) with permanent funding. Civic education is to be expanded from daycare through adult education. People who are active for democracy should get better protection and advice.

The Greens want a law to promote democracy. It should give groups steady funding. Children should learn about democracy starting in daycare. Adults should get offers too. People who are threatened should get help from the state.

The Greens call for proceedings to ban the AfD. The platform argues that the party keeps radicalizing and is part of a far-right network. In addition, new laws are meant to help remove enemies of the constitution from public service.

The Greens want a court case to ban the AfD. They say the AfD is getting more and more radical. Also, enemies of the constitution should not work for the state. The Greens want new laws for that.

The Greens want to make volunteer work simpler, more visible and safer. Associations are to get help with software, red tape is to be reduced and the Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card) expanded. A dedicated contact point is planned for volunteers who are threatened.

Many people volunteer in clubs and associations. The Greens want to make their work easier. Clubs should get help with software. Volunteers who are threatened should have a fixed place to turn to.

The Greens want people without German or EU citizenship to be able to vote if they have lived in Rhineland-Palatinate for a long time. This would apply to local and state elections. The reasoning is that those who live in the state permanently should have a say.

Some people have lived in Rhineland-Palatinate for a long time. But they have no German or EU passport. The Greens want these people to be able to vote too. This would apply to local and state elections.

The Greens want more direct participation: lower hurdles for popular initiatives and referendums, advisory panels of randomly selected citizens for major reforms, and a state participation portal. Anyone submitting a petition with 1,000 co-signers should be allowed to speak before the petitions committee.

The Greens want citizens to have more of a say. Referendums should be easier to hold. Citizens chosen by lot should advise on big reforms. People with 1,000 signatures on a petition may speak in the committee. A petition is a request to parliament.

The Greens want to abolish the justice ministry's right to issue instructions to public prosecutors, citing the independence of the judiciary. The justice system is also to get more staff and work digitally. A specialized prosecutor's office for environmental crime is planned.

Today the justice ministry can give orders to prosecutors. The Greens want to end that. The justice system should be independent. Courts should get more staff and work digitally. A special prosecutor's office should handle environmental crimes.

The Greens want to deepen cooperation with France, Luxembourg and Belgium and with the state's partner regions. Cross-border local transit is to grow, and the Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) is to be valid in adjacent regions of neighboring countries. At the federal level, the party wants an end to checks at the EU's internal borders.

The Greens want to work more closely with neighboring countries. Buses and trains should run better across the border. The Deutschlandticket should also be valid just across the border. Checks at borders inside Europe should end.

The Greens want to develop the EU into a Federal European Republic in the long run. EU funds are to go into climate protection and a climate-friendly economy, and there are to be safe, legal routes for refugees to Europe. In Rhineland-Palatinate, EU citizens are to be allowed to vote in state elections as well.

The Greens want to turn the EU into a joint federal state in the long run. EU money should mainly go to climate protection. Refugees should be able to reach Europe by safe and legal routes. People from other EU countries should be allowed to vote in state elections.

The Greens want voluntary service programs to remain voluntary and open to everyone, regardless of income or where they live. The platform rejects a return to general military conscription.

The Greens do not want a required service. Young people should choose a service freely. There should be more money for it. The Greens say no to a military draft.

The Greens want the state and municipalities to buy goods according to social and ecological standards. The platform justifies this with responsibility for living conditions in other countries. The partnership with Rwanda is to grow at the civil-society level, while political contacts are to be avoided for now.

The state and towns buy many goods. They should look for fair work and protection of nature. There should be fixed rules for this. The partnership with Rwanda should go on. But the Greens want to avoid contact with the government there for now.

The Greens back Ukraine and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in defending against Russia's war of aggression. They favor sanctions on Russia, the reconstruction of Ukraine and peace negotiations based on international law. In the platform's view, this protects Europe as a whole.

The Greens support Ukraine against Russia's attack. They are for sanctions on Russia. Sanctions are penalties, such as trade bans. Ukraine should get help to rebuild. The party also wants peace talks that follow international law.

The Greens give priority to civilian strategies and disarmament. They want no nuclear weapons stored in Rhineland-Palatinate and favor a dialogue on gradually reducing stockpiles. The party rejects a return to general military conscription.

The Greens want no nuclear weapons in Rhineland-Palatinate. The number of nuclear weapons should go down step by step. The party is against bringing back the draft. Noise from military planes should go down. The state's Peace Academy should get more money and staff.

The Greens want to make media education a fixed element from daycare onward and support efforts to counter disinformation. They also back public broadcasting and want to strengthen regional media and the creative industries.

Children should learn early how to deal with media. This should start in daycare. The Greens want to inform people about false news. They want to keep many different media in the state.

The Greens want to continue remembrance work on National Socialism and make May 8 a memorial day. Every student should visit a Nazi-era memorial site once free of charge. German colonial history is also to be examined critically.

The Greens want people to remember the crimes of the Nazis. May 8 should become a memorial day. Every student should visit a memorial site once for free. People should also remember the crimes in the former colonies.

The Greens want reliable funding for culture and, to that end, a culture law with a funding plan for each legislative term. Grant applications are to become simpler and digital. Young people are to receive an RLP-Kulturpass (culture pass) that gives them access to cultural life.

The Greens want a culture law. It would include a fixed plan for funding culture. Applying for money should be simple and digital. Young people should get a culture pass. It would make it easier for them to enjoy culture.

The Greens want people working in arts and culture to be able to live off their work. They plan to extend minimum fees tied to state funding and to increase the state culture budget. Volunteer-run cultural work is to be backed by paid staff.

The Greens want better pay for artists. Projects with state money should pay minimum fees. The state should spend more money on culture. Volunteers in culture should also get more help.

The Greens want every young person to have access to arts and culture, from daycare through school and beyond. Cultural education is to become part of all-day schooling, and cultural institutions are to get more funding as meeting places. New spaces for culture are also to be created in cities and rural areas.

All children and young people should experience art and culture. This should also happen in all-day schools. Libraries, music schools, theaters and museums should get more money. Buses should take school classes to cultural places. People with little money should get cheap or free access to culture.

The Greens want to recognize clubs and discos as cultural venues and make them a fixed part of municipal urban planning. Existing locations are to be secured. At the same time, measures against sexualized violence in nightlife are to be strengthened.

The Greens see clubs and discos as part of culture. Cities should include clubs in their planning. The party wants to stop clubs from closing. Going out should be safe for everyone. So there should be more protection from sexual violence.

The Greens want to raise awareness of the state's cultural heritage and help museums examine their collections. An advisory office is to help identify objects linked to Nazi-looted property or colonial contexts. The state's culture is also to become more visible, for example by hosting a European Capital of Culture.

The Greens want more people to know the state's cultural heritage. Museums should check where their objects come from. Some objects may have been stolen in the Nazi era. Others may come from former colonies. An advice office should help museums with this.

The Greens want daycare centers, schools, workplaces, hospitals and care homes to serve healthier, more regional and more organic food, including one vegan dish every day. According to the program, this benefits health, the climate and the environment and reduces the land needed for animal feed.

The Greens want better food in cafeterias. This applies to daycare centers, schools, hospitals and care homes. There should be more organic food and more food from the region. There should be a vegan dish every day. Children should learn about food at school.

The Greens want to expand the Verbraucherzentrale's (consumer advice center) counseling on energy and debt so that electricity and heating cutoffs do not happen in the first place. They also want protection against online fraud, a complaints office for artificial intelligence and consumer education in schools.

The Greens want to protect consumers better. The consumer advice center should offer more help, also in rural areas. There should be an office for complaints about artificial intelligence. Students should learn from grade 9 how to spot cost traps.

The Greens want equal treatment of religions and worldviews and more consideration for Islam in schools, cemeteries and holiday rules. They support building up Islamic religious education. Dancing bans on public holidays are to be lifted, and the party is open to a nationwide phase-out of state payments to the churches.

There are many religions in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Greens want to treat them all the same. Schools should also offer Islamic religion classes. Dancing should be allowed on quiet holidays. Jewish communities should keep getting support.

The Greens want to preserve and expand municipal and club-owned sports facilities and make them energy-efficient and accessible. A special funding program is to secure swimming pools so that all children can swim by the end of elementary school. Sports clubs, inclusion and fan projects are to get more support.

The Greens want to keep and renew sports fields and halls. Swimming pools should get money from a special program. All children should learn to swim in elementary school. Coaches in clubs should get higher allowances. Sports should be open to everyone.