Grüne: program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

The Greens want to review all state funding programs and align them with topics such as climate protection, digitalization and resource conservation. The state is also to buy in an environmentally friendly way, and COVID aid is to continue as needed.

The state gives funding money to companies. The Greens want this money to go mainly to climate protection and digital projects. The state itself should buy eco-friendly goods. Companies in trouble should keep getting COVID aid.

The Greens want the state to keep co-financing EU funding programs. The money is to go more strongly to projects that serve climate protection and the energy transition. State funding for projects that run counter to climate and sustainability goals is to end.

Schleswig-Holstein gets money from the EU and the federal government. The Greens want to keep paying the state's share. More of the money should go to climate protection. Projects that harm the climate should get no funding.

The Greens want Schleswig-Holstein to remain one of Germany's leading states for new businesses. Access to funding is to become easier, and programs and networks for founders are to grow. The path from university to starting a company is also to be made easier.

The Greens want to help people who start a company. Getting funding should be easier. There should be more programs and networks for founders. Universities should also offer more help for new companies.

The Greens want to fund and carry out the state's strategy for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Existing funding programs are to be opened to social enterprises. The platform sees such business models as a chance to tackle major social changes and create good jobs.

Some companies mainly want to solve problems in society. The Greens want to support these companies. They should be able to get money from state programs. A new academy and a new agency are to help.

The Greens want to make Schleswig-Holstein an important location for developing video games. A dedicated funding framework is to be created for this. The cultural and creative industries are to be strengthened through a participatory process.

The Greens want to support companies that make video games. There should be a special funding program for them. Cultural and creative businesses should also become stronger. The people affected should have a say.

The Greens give businesses an investment pledge for public infrastructure. New companies are to be able to settle in the state without sealing much additional land. To that end, municipalities are to get support for recycling previously used land.

The Greens want to keep spending on rail, roads and fast internet. Universities and hospitals are to be renovated too. New companies should use old sites where possible. That way less new land gets built on.

The Greens want economic policy to focus more on small companies and to support them with innovation and change. Help is planned for research and development, digitalization and business succession. Industry and cluster strategies are to be realigned.

Schleswig-Holstein has many small and mid-sized companies. The Greens want to help them with new ideas and digital tools. Many companies need someone to take over from the owner. A campaign is planned for this.

The Greens want to close the skilled-worker gap in the skilled trades, arguing that climate protection can only succeed with them. A program for climate-protection workers and a training drive are planned. Access to trade occupations is to become easier for more groups and for career changers.

The skilled trades need more trained workers. The Greens say climate protection will not work without them. So there is to be a program for training and retraining. More women and queer people should also work in the trades.

The Greens want to develop Schleswig-Holstein as a green industrial location and rewrite the state's industrial strategy for that purpose. The platform sees the supply of renewable energy as a local advantage. New industrial settlements are to be supported with higher loan guarantees and infrastructure.

Schleswig-Holstein has a lot of power from wind and sun. The Greens want to use this to attract more industry. The state is to rewrite its plan for industry. New companies should get help, such as rail lines and fast internet.

The Greens want to make Schleswig-Holstein the world's leading innovation hub for zero-emission shipping. To that end, innovation is to be supported together with researchers and the renewable energy sector. Shipyards are to be strengthened through more public contracts.

In the future, ships should no longer give off exhaust. The Greens want Schleswig-Holstein to lead in this field. They want to support new technology. Shipyards in the state should also get more orders.

For the Greens, sustainable business means something other than growth. The goal of economic policy and business support is to be sustainable prosperity for everyone in the state. They also want to examine where post-growth economic approaches are suitable.

The Greens say the economy is about more than growth. Everyone in the state should be able to live well in the long run. That is to be the goal of economic policy. The Greens want to check where the economy can work well without growth.

The Greens welcome the federal Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (supply chain due diligence act) but consider it insufficient. They want to push for more effective rules at the federal and EU levels.

Companies buy goods and parts in many countries. A law requires them to watch for fair conditions. The Greens say this law is not enough. They want stricter rules in Germany and in the EU.

The Greens see tourism as a key pillar of the state's economy and want to realign its strategy with the industry around sustainability. They regard intact nature and landscape as the basis of future tourism.

Many people vacation in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want vacations to be gentle on nature. Motor boats should run on electricity. Workers in hotels and restaurants should get fair pay.

The Greens want to help municipalities draw up plans that assess how much tourism a place can carry. Together with municipalities, they also want to steer day-trip traffic better so that towns and sensitive natural areas are not overwhelmed.

Many towns on the coast are very crowded. The Greens want to help towns plan. Towns should check how much tourism they can handle. Traffic should also be guided better.

The Greens want to draw up a long-term state strategy for inclusive tourism with the involvement of advocacy groups. Natural and cultural sites should be as barrier-free as possible. The state should also reach out more deliberately to queer travelers.

All people should be able to vacation in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want a long-term plan for this. Paths to the beach should have no barriers. The state should also invite more queer guests.

The Greens want to change the state's procurement law so that public contracts minimize negative impacts and take costs over the full life cycle into account. The state is to lead on due diligence obligations in supply chains.

The state buys many things and awards contracts. The Greens want new rules for this. The state should look at the environment and fair work. It should also look at costs over the whole time of use.

The Greens want to tie public contracts to paying wages set by collective agreements or wages modeled on them. Climate impact and human rights are to be minimum standards for every public contract. An ombuds office would follow up on reports of violations.

The state and towns give contracts to companies. The Greens want new rules for this. Companies should pay wages set by union agreements. They should respect the climate and human rights. A new office should check for rule-breaking.

The Greens want to improve working conditions at universities. Permanent tasks are to be done by staff on permanent contracts, and student employees are to be paid under a collective agreement. The party backs the union campaign TVStud for this purpose.

Many people at universities only have short-term contracts. The Greens want permanent jobs for tasks that never end. Students who work at a university should get collective pay. Collective pay is pay that unions and employers agree on.

The Greens want a law on collective bargaining compliance and public procurement with a procurement minimum wage of at least 13.50 euros. The state minimum wage is to be reintroduced and also set at 13.50 euros. Precarious working conditions are to be monitored more closely.

Companies with state contracts will have to pay at least 13.50 euros an hour. The state will again have its own minimum wage of 13.50 euros. Companies should follow collective agreements. These are pay deals between unions and employers. Bad working conditions will be checked more closely.

The Greens want to expand occupational safety by strengthening inspections and counseling, for example on the ban on subcontracted labor in meatpacking and on the minimum wage. A housing oversight law is meant to secure minimum standards for workers' accommodation.

The Greens want to protect workers better. Officials should check more often, for example in slaughterhouses. Everyone should get the minimum wage. A new law should make sure workers have decent housing.

The Greens regard sexual services as work and want to reduce the stigma attached to them. At the same time, people who work under coercion are to receive protection and individual support.

The Greens see sex work as work. Nobody should be treated badly because of it. People who are forced into this work should get help and protection.

The Greens want to keep promoting working from home, co-working, and mobile work while preserving worker protections. To that end, the occupational safety and working hours laws are to be reformed. The platform sees opportunities for rural areas and the climate.

The Greens want to support working from home. This saves travel and helps rural areas and the climate. The laws that protect workers should be updated for this.

The Greens want to expand continuing education so that employees can adapt to digitalization and the economy's shift toward climate neutrality. They support the federal government's plan for Bildungszeit and Bildungsteilzeit (paid full-time and part-time training leave).

The world of work is changing fast. So the Greens want more training courses for workers. People should be able to take time off to learn. This should be possible in all jobs.

The Greens want people working in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities to receive the minimum wage and employee status. In the long run, alternatives to the workshop system are to be developed with the federal government. The goal is a labor market open to everyone, as the UN disability rights convention provides.

Some people with disabilities work in special workshops. They do not get the minimum wage there. The Greens want to change that. More people with disabilities should be able to work in regular companies.

The Greens want to raise the Landesblindengeld (state allowance for blind people) to offset higher extra costs. At the federal level they back an allowance for people with severe visual impairment and, through the Bundesrat, a federal participation benefit. These payments are meant to offset financial disadvantages faced by people with disabilities.

Blind people get money from the state. The Greens want to raise this amount. People with very poor eyesight should also get money. There should also be a new federal benefit for people with disabilities.

The Greens want no one in Schleswig-Holstein to have to live in poverty. To that end the party backs the federal Bürgergeld (citizen's income), wants to replace Hartz IV, and advocates higher taxes on the very rich. The state is also to provide good jobs and career prospects.

The Greens want no one in the state to be poor. The Bürgergeld should replace Hartz IV. Very rich people should pay more taxes. The state should create good jobs. State contracts should go to companies in the region.

The Greens want to expand debt and insolvency counseling and set up statewide advice on electricity costs. The goal is to avoid power cutoffs and protect people from energy poverty. At the federal level the party advocates abolishing power cutoffs altogether.

The Greens want more counseling for people in debt. There should be advice on electricity costs everywhere in the state. No one should have their power shut off. That should be banned across Germany.

The Greens are guided by the idea of a basic income and want a nationwide pilot with scientific evaluation. The stated reason is to narrow the gap between rich and poor. In addition, decentralized, mobile and digital services are meant to enable more participation in society.

A basic income is money from the government for everyone. The Greens like this idea. They want a trial across all of Germany. Researchers should follow the trial. The gap between rich and poor should get smaller.

The Greens want the state to point people to benefits on its own initiative rather than wait for applications. Parents applying online for a birth certificate are to be informed automatically about available support. The same principle is to apply to other life situations, such as dealings with the job center.

Today parents have to search for help themselves. The Greens want to change that. The government should tell people about help on its own. This happens when parents apply online for a birth certificate. The language should be easy to understand.

The Greens want to give volunteers more support and pursue an overall strategy for volunteering. Voluntary service programs such as the FSJ, FÖJ, and Bundesfreiwilligendienst (federal volunteer service) should be open to more people regardless of income.

Many people help others for free. The Greens want to support these people more. One example is cheaper bus and train tickets. Young people with little money should also be able to do a voluntary year.

The Greens consider church labor law largely outdated and want standard labor law to apply to church employees. They also want to make it easier to leave a religious community.

Churches have their own rules for their workers. The Greens want to change that. Church workers should have the same rules as everyone else. Leaving a church should also become easier.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for tougher action against undeclared work. Customs and tax authorities are to cooperate better, and general contractors are to be liable for wage tax evaded by their subcontractors.

The Greens want to do more against undeclared work. That is work without paying taxes and social contributions. Customs and tax offices should work together better. Big contractors should be liable for unpaid wage tax.

The Greens want to make state employment more attractive through good pay, family-friendly conditions and flexible working hours. Civil servants are to choose their health insurance freely, and outsourced workers are to be brought back onto the state payroll step by step.

The Greens want the state to be a good employer. Civil servants should choose their own health insurance. Some people work for the state but are employed by companies. They should work directly for the state again. Cleaning staff come first.

The Greens do not want to sell state land and buildings to relieve the budget in the short term. Instead, the state would buy land where possible to expand universities or promote social housing.

The state owns land and buildings. The Greens do not want to sell them for quick money. The state should rather buy new land. Universities can grow there or affordable homes can be built.

The Greens want to reorient debt policy so that states may borrow for net investment. Until the Basic Law is amended, investment companies are to finance municipal projects such as school and housing construction.

The Greens want to change the rules on debt. The states should be allowed to borrow money for investments. Investments are things like new schools. Until then, special companies should raise the money.

The Greens want to fight tax fraud, narrow loopholes and keep demanding that very high incomes contribute more to financing the state. This includes a modern tax administration, an anonymous digital inbox for tips, and the purchase of tax data.

The Greens want to fight tax fraud. People with very high incomes should pay more tax. People should be able to report fraud online without giving their name. The state should also be allowed to buy tax data.

The Greens want to orient the state's financial system toward sustainability. State guarantees are to follow climate protection goals, the state is to issue green bonds, and savings bank boards are to have a minimum qualification in sustainability.

The Greens want the state to invest its money sustainably. The state should put no money into nuclear power, coal, oil or gas. Bosses and supervisors of savings banks should know about sustainability. Schools should teach more about sustainable finance.

The Greens want to give municipalities more room to invest and support them through investment companies in the areas of schools, social housing and the shift to climate-friendly heating. The party backs a nationwide fund to pay down old municipal debt, with conditions.

Towns and cities should be able to invest more money. The Greens want to help them. This is about schools, affordable housing and climate-friendly heating. The federal government should set up a fund for old town debts.

The Greens want to reinstate the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and the ordinance capping rent increases in Schleswig-Holstein. The aim is to secure affordable housing in the long term. Housing subsidy programs are to continue and grow with federal money.

Rents are high in many places. The Greens want to bring back the rent brake. This is a rule that limits rents in new leases. Rent increases will also be limited more strictly again. The state will keep paying for affordable housing.

The Greens want a housing protection law for the state. It is meant to curb speculation with housing, prevent misuse of homes through penalties, and regulate vacation rentals. Vacancy is also to be limited in time.

The Greens want a new law to protect housing. Homes should be used for living. People who use them for other things will face penalties. There will be rules for vacation rentals. Homes will not be allowed to stay empty for long.

The Greens want to set up a state-owned housing company to boost social housing construction. It is to build affordable, climate-friendly homes and also buy and renovate existing homes and rent them out cheaply.

The state will set up its own company to build housing. The company will build affordable homes. It will also buy and repair homes. Then it will rent them out at low prices. The homes will be good for the climate.

The Greens want to develop the state's land fund further and give it more money. Municipalities are to use it to buy land and buildings for social and cooperative housing. Preemption rights are to be used actively.

Towns will find it easier to buy land and buildings. A land fund will get more money for this. A fund is a pot of money for a set purpose. This will create affordable homes owned by the town. Rents will stay low for good.

The Greens want to fight discrimination in the housing search through a round table. Homeless people are to be better protected, including through Housing First projects and reliable access to social benefits.

Some people struggle to find a home because others treat them unfairly. The Greens want to talk about this with landlords, tenants and associations. People without a home will get more protection. They will get a home first. This is called Housing First.

The Greens want to create more dormitory places and open student housing to trainees. For older people, suitable housing projects and home swaps are to be supported so that housing fits people's stage of life.

Students and trainees should be able to live more cheaply. There will be more places in dormitories. Older people should find suitable homes in their neighborhood. People should be able to swap homes more easily. The state will provide money for this.

The Greens want infill development and multistory building to come before new land is designated for construction. They also back tiny house projects and want to look into easing building rules for them.

The Greens want to save land when building. Building should happen inside towns first. Only then should new land be used. Very small houses should also be possible. They are called tiny houses.

The Greens want a state program that gives a 10,000 euro grant for the first purchase or construction of an owner-occupied home. It is meant for people with low and middle incomes. The platform prefers this to an across-the-board cut in the real estate transfer tax.

People who buy their first home to live in will get 10,000 euros. This only applies to people with low or middle incomes. Families with children have a higher income limit. The Greens think this is better than a lower tax on buying property.

The Greens want to launch additional funding programs for accessible homes and to continue the accessibility fund. Inclusive living is to get more weight in housing projects so that people with disabilities and older people can live independently.

People with disabilities and older people should be able to live in their own homes. This requires homes without barriers. The Greens want to provide more money for this. Shared living for people with and without disabilities will also be supported.

The Greens want everything needed for daily life in cities to be reachable within fifteen minutes. Urban planning is to focus more on children, older people and people with disabilities and to promote socially mixed neighborhoods.

In a city, everything important should be 15 minutes away. For example shops, doctors and childcare. Paths should be safe and free of obstacles. Parks, beaches and lakes should be open to everyone.

The Greens want to develop city centers into places for living and culture and to set up a roundtable for this. Its results are to feed into an updated state urban development program.

Many city centers are losing shops and visitors. The Greens want to talk about this with many people involved. There should be a roundtable for it. Local people should have a say.

The Greens want to create new tools in state law that let municipalities act against the conversion of permanent homes into vacation rentals. Popular tourist destinations should also have enough affordable housing, and locals should not be pushed out.

In tourist towns, many homes become vacation rentals. Then local people cannot find homes. The Greens want new state rules. With these rules, towns can protect homes better.

The Greens want to upgrade Kindertagespflege (home-based child care by childminders) through better advice and training. It is to be considered consistently alongside daycare centers as a form of care.

Childminders also look after children. The Greens think this work is important. They want more advice and training for them. Childminders should be able to share ideas more easily.

The Greens want to ease daycare costs for parents: the sibling discount is to become a family discount and the fee cap is to fall step by step. In the medium term, daycare is to be free of charge.

Daycare should cost parents less. Families with several children should pay less. The highest fee allowed should go down bit by bit. Later, daycare should cost nothing at all.

The Greens want to create enough additional daycare places for the legal entitlement from age one to be met everywhere in the state. In the year before starting school, all children are to get equal chances.

Every child from age one has a right to a daycare place. There are not enough places yet. The Greens want to build more. Money for building should be easier to get. Daycare and school should work closely together.

The Greens want to abolish the split between core and off-peak hours in daycare fees and introduce a monthly rather than weekly cap on hours. Parents who work very early or late are not to be financially worse off.

Some parents work very early or very late. They should not pay more for daycare than others. Daycare hours should become more flexible. Children of different ages should also be able to share a group in the afternoon.

The Greens want to give families more everyday support and will look into a state law on family support. Counseling, assistance and funding programs are to be bundled and made easier to reach.

The Greens want to help families more. They will look into a new state law for families. Advice and help should be easier to find. There should be less paperwork.

The Greens want work and family life to fit together better, relying on childcare and flexible working hours. At the federal level they want to push for a shortened full-time model for parents.

Parents should be able to combine work and family better. The Greens want to spend more on childcare. Companies should offer flexible working hours. Parents should also be able to work shorter full-time hours.

The Greens want to develop a youth policy strategy for Schleswig-Holstein and have new laws assessed for their effects on young people. They also want the federal government to launch a digital pact for youth work.

The Greens want a plan for young people in the state. New laws should be checked: What do they mean for young people? This is called a youth check. Youth work should get federal money for digital tools.

The Greens want to fund youth centers and open youth work and set up a program to modernize, expand and newly open them in a climate-neutral way. Young people are to get their own spaces in public areas and more cultural, sports and leisure options.

The Greens want to give money to youth centers. They should be renovated and new ones should open. Young people should get their own places to meet. There should be more sports, culture and leisure activities.

The Greens want to improve staffing in the general social services of youth welfare offices and agree on fixed standards with municipalities. In the program's view, adequate staffing is the precondition for effective child protection.

Youth welfare offices should get more staff. There should be fixed rules for this. The Greens say: This is the only way to protect children well. An online portal should show all support services.

The Greens want all institutions in contact with minors to be required to adopt safeguarding plans against violence and abuse. In addition, a child protection commission is to be set up for Schleswig-Holstein.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. Daycare centers, schools and clubs should have to have a protection plan. Adults there should get training. A commission should deal with child protection.

The Greens see daycare centers (Kitas) as educational institutions and want to revise the state's educational guidelines. Nutrition education is to be written into the daycare law, and nature experience and reading support are to be strengthened.

The Greens see daycare as a place to learn. The state should update its rules for learning in daycare. Children should learn about food. They should spend a lot of time in nature. Reading aloud should get more support too.

The Greens want to turn pilot projects on children's participation into a quality standard for all daycare centers. The state program for trauma-informed teaching in daycare is also to continue and possibly grow.

Children should have a say in daycare. This should be true in every daycare center. Some children have lived through terrible things. The state has a program to help them. The Greens want to keep this program.

The Greens want to improve daycare quality mainly through more staff. The time educators have for preparation and follow-up work is to rise by at least one hour.

The Greens want more staff in daycare centers. That should mean less stress for workers. Workers should also get more time to prepare. It should be at least one more hour.

To support inclusion, special-needs educators (Heilpädagogen) are eventually to work in every daycare center. As a first step, large facilities with more than four groups are each to get one such staff member.

Children with and without disabilities should go to daycare together. That takes specially trained staff. They are called special-needs educators. Large daycare centers should get one first. Later, every daycare center should have one.

The Greens want to attract more people to work in daycare centers (Kitas). Pay is to rise for all groups of educational staff, training routes are to be expanded, and staff are to be relieved of administrative and housekeeping tasks. Home-based child care (Tagespflege) is also to keep receiving support.

The Greens want more staff for daycare centers. The workers should get more pay. There should be more training places. Home-based child minders should also get more help.

The Greens want to continue the daycare reform with a focus on inclusion. Refugee children are to attend regular daycare centers from the start, and people with disabilities are to work as staff in educational institutions. The platform argues that daily contact counters prejudice.

The Greens want all children to go to daycare together. This includes children with disabilities. Refugee children should go to regular daycare right away. People with disabilities should also be able to work there.

The Greens want to develop the content of learning in schools, with open forms of learning and teaching across subjects and grade levels. The timetable framework is to be revised so schools get more leeway. The options for doing without grades are also to be widened.

The Greens want to change how schools teach. Schools should decide more for themselves. Children should find their strengths more easily. Schools should be allowed to skip grades more often.

The Greens want students to be able to use gender-sensitive language again without being penalized for it. Elementary schools are also to be allowed again to use Grundschrift (a simplified handwriting style) as a first script.

Students should be allowed to use gender-sensitive language again. They should not be marked down for it. Elementary schools should be allowed to use Grundschrift again. That is a certain style of handwriting for children.

The Greens want to push for a later start to lessons so that the school day fits better with the sleep rhythm of children and teenagers. At the same time, care before school is to be available everywhere for elementary school children.

School should start later in the morning. Then children get enough sleep. Young children should still have care early in the morning. This helps parents who work.

The Greens want to expand the PerspektivSchul program for schools in difficult social settings. A social index is to make sure money goes to schools according to need. The platform argues that social background still strongly shapes educational opportunities.

Some schools have a harder job than others. These schools should get more money. A social index should show how much each school needs. Children who fell behind during Covid should get help.

The Greens want to phase in, together with municipalities, the legal right to an all-day place for elementary school children that applies from 2026. The same rules for rooms, staff and equipment are to apply statewide. In the party's view, all-day schooling should offer education and not just supervision.

Elementary school children should be able to stay at school all day. From 2026 they have a right to this. The Greens want the same rules across the whole state. Sports clubs and music schools should take part.

The Greens want every child to be able to learn with a digital device at school and at home, regardless of parents' income. An overall plan is to be drawn up with school authorities. Teachers are to receive more training in digital teaching.

Every child should be able to learn with a tablet or laptop. This should not depend on the parents' money. Teachers should learn more about digital teaching. All schools should get fast internet.

The Greens want to expand media education and computer science education for all students. Computer science education is to be made a binding part of the revised timetable without adding to children's workload. To have enough teachers, computer science degree programs are to be set up in Flensburg.

All students should learn more about computers and media. This should be a fixed part of lessons. More computer science teachers are needed for this. People should be able to study for it in Flensburg.

The Greens want to strike the clause in the school law that makes joint learning depend on available resources. By 2024, 490 additional positions for special education teachers are to be in place. The party stands by the dual system of regular schools and special-needs centers.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. This should no longer depend on money. There should be 490 new jobs for special education teachers. Special-needs centers will stay.

The Greens want to guarantee a right to education for children and teenagers who live in residential youth care or have no secure residence status. Teaching of German as a second language is to be expanded so that refugees and immigrants can earn recognized school diplomas.

All children should have a right to go to school. This includes children without a secure right to stay. It also includes children in care homes. Children with another first language should get more German lessons.

The Greens want students to receive all materials needed in class free of charge. Besides textbooks, this is to cover atlases, assigned reading and workbooks, and to apply to all types of schools.

School materials should be free for all children. This includes atlases and reading books. Workbooks should also cost nothing. This should apply at all schools.

The Greens want to stop assigning extra support hours per child and instead allocate them according to each school's needs. This is meant to allow preventive support for children even without a formally established special need. Uniform diagnostic rules are to apply statewide.

Some children need more help at school. Today schools get extra hours for each such child. The Greens want to give the hours directly to schools. Then children can get help without an official assessment. The same rules should apply across the state.

The Greens want teachers to get more support from other specialists, such as occupational and speech therapists. In the long run, every school in the state is to have a school social work position. The program justifies this with increasingly diverse classes.

More kinds of experts should work in schools. These include speech therapists and social workers. In the long run, every school should have a social worker. This gives teachers more help. Every child should get good support.

The Greens want to prepare future teachers better for digitalization, inclusion and self-directed learning. Digital education, including basic computer science, is to become a fixed part of teacher degrees. Offerings on mental health are to be added.

People who want to become teachers should learn more at university. This includes computers and digital media. It also includes teaching children with disabilities. The Greens also want more offers for mental health. This should help teachers in their job.

The Greens want to give substitute teachers without a master's degree a permanent route into the profession. University places are to be planned more closely to demand, since posts cannot always be filled with suitably trained staff. The practical training phase is also to become more transparent.

There are not enough well-trained teachers. Some people teach as substitutes without a full degree. Today they may only do this for five years. The Greens want to offer them further training. Then they can work as teachers for good.

The Greens want to give principals more time for leadership tasks and let schools hire administrative staff to assist them. Pay is to be based on the tasks involved. The program cites growing expectations placed on school leadership.

Running a school is getting harder. The Greens want to give principals more time for it. Schools should be allowed to hire office staff. Pay should match the tasks. Teachers with special duties should also get relief.

The Greens want economics/politics taught from seventh grade at all types of schools. Students, parents and teachers are also to have more say, for example through class councils. The program regards schools as a key place for democratic education.

Students should learn more about politics and the economy. The subject should start in grade 7 at all schools. Students should have more of a say at school. Class councils are one way to do this. Parents should take part too.

The Greens want plans for preventing sexualized violence to be applied regularly at every school. Everyone at the school should know where children and young people can get help. The program notes that, statistically, every class includes affected children.

Some children suffer sexual violence. It happens at home, in free time or at school. The Greens want every school to act against it. Every school should really use its protection plan. Everyone should know where children can find help.

The Greens want daycare centers and schools to be sensitive to children's traumatic experiences. A preventive group program is to be set up in schools and later become a regular service. The program cites flight, the loss of relatives or strain at home during the pandemic as possible causes.

Some children have lived through terrible things. This can be fleeing their country or a death in the family. The Greens want to help these children in daycare and school. Schools should offer groups for this. Staff should get special training.

The Greens want to anchor education for sustainable development firmly in all parts of the education system. Training and further education in all sectors are also to be geared to the shift to a climate-neutral economy. The program says only ten to 20 years remain for this.

Everyone should learn how to protect nature and the climate. This should be a fixed goal in schools and other places of learning. The Greens also want to train more skilled workers for climate protection. Museums and adult education centers should inform people about the climate crisis.

The Greens want to revise the flat-rate cost allowances for independently run schools in the next legislative term. The program regards Danish and independent schools as an important part of the school system.

Some schools are not run by the state. The Danish schools are among them. They get money from the state. The Greens want to recalculate the fixed amounts. This covers money for buildings, office work and school buses.

The Greens want more young people to start vocational training after school and all of them to earn a diploma. Youth employment agencies are to be set up statewide, and schools are to get plans to prevent dropouts. Practice-oriented programs are to continue or grow.

All young people should finish school with a diploma. More of them should start job training afterwards. There should be advice centers for young people everywhere. Schools should help early when someone may drop out. There are also classes with a lot of work practice.

The Greens want the state to play a bigger role in modernizing school buildings, so that school authorities with less money can also build and renovate. A model room program would set statewide standards for modern schools. The platform argues that many municipalities cannot handle the planning and the costs on their own.

Many school buildings need to be renewed. The Greens want the state to help towns and cities more with this. There should be a plan with clear rules for good school rooms. New schools should not harm the climate.

The Greens want to move the Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Vocational Education (SHIBB) from the economics ministry back to the education ministry. All vocational schools are to become Regional Vocational Training Centers. Statewide planning is meant to give every location a future despite falling student numbers.

SHIBB is an institute for vocational schools in the state. Today it belongs to the economics ministry. The Greens want to move it to the education ministry. All vocational schools should become regional centers. A plan for the whole state should keep the locations safe.

The Greens want to implement the federal government's planned training guarantee in Schleswig-Holstein, so that every young person gets a chance at a vocational training place. To that end, career guidance at general schools is to be strengthened and language support at vocational schools expanded.

All young people should get a chance at a training place. This also applies to young people who find learning hard. Schools should give better information about jobs. Young newcomers should get more help with learning German.

The Greens want to make it easier to move between vocational and academic education. A Berufshochschule (vocational college) is to combine a vocational qualification with, later on, a bachelor's degree. There are also to be more dual study places to meet the demand for skilled workers.

The Greens want to link job training and university more closely. There should be a vocational college. Students first get a job qualification there. Later a bachelor's degree should also be possible. There should also be more places in dual study programs.

The Greens want to keep raising base funding for universities to give them planning security. No public university in the state is to be at risk of closing. In addition, new departments are to be set up in Neumünster, with priority for a nursing degree.

Universities should keep getting more money from the state. This helps them plan better. No public university should have to close. Neumünster should get new study programs, first for nursing.

The Greens want to improve the digital infrastructure and equipment of universities and expand open data and open access. Foreign degrees are to be recognized more easily. In the border region with Denmark, there are to be many more joint degree programs.

Universities should get better digital technology. Research results should be free to read online. Degrees from other countries should be accepted more easily. German and Danish universities should offer more programs together.

The Greens reject the federal Excellence Strategy because, in the platform's view, it strengthens elite structures and leaves many departments without support. Instead, the federal government should raise funding for all universities in general. The Greens also want to boost knowledge transfer through innovation agencies.

The federal government gives extra money to a few top research projects. The Greens think this is not fair. They want more federal money for all universities. Until then, universities in the state should still be able to use the program.

The Greens reject tuition fees and want to continue the start-up grant for students from households on basic income support. The Studentenwerk (student services organization) is to get more money, mainly for housing and counseling. On BAföG (federal student aid), the party wants higher payments that are adjusted regularly and depend less on parents' income.

Studying should stay free of tuition fees. Students from poor families should keep getting money at the start. The student services organization should get more money for housing and counseling. Student aid should be higher and arrive faster.

The Greens want to turn the state's Continuing Education Act into a Continuing Education Funding Act and give more support to Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and other education centers. Given rapid social and technical change, the platform sees lifelong learning as a main pillar of the education system.

Adults should also be able to keep learning. The Greens want a new law for this. Adult education centers should be able to offer more courses. People who have trouble reading and writing should find help everywhere.

The Greens want to turn the school subject of philosophy into a non-denominational subject called "Philosophy and Religious Studies." Denominational religious education would remain available alongside it.

Children with many religions and with no religion learn together at school. The Greens want a new school subject. It is called Philosophy and Religious Studies. It does not belong to any church. Regular religion classes will still exist.

The Greens want to actively involve science in the shift to a climate-neutral society. Plans include a statewide network of sustainability managers at universities, a real-world lab called “SH.Klimaneutral,” and a platform for citizen science.

The Greens want science to play a bigger part in climate protection. Universities should have experts for sustainability. A new network should bring together research, companies and citizens. Citizens should also be able to take part in research.

The Greens want to promote nature studies in and outside school, knowledge of species and the training of conservation professionals. The Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (voluntary ecological year) and the ecological federal volunteer service are to grow and also be open to older people.

People should learn more about nature. This should be possible at school and in free time. The Greens want more places in the voluntary ecological year. There, people work for the environment for one year. People over 27 should also be able to join.

The Greens want to update how law school and the Referendariat (post-graduate legal traineeship) are taught and make them less stressful. The justice system is to become as diverse as society, and training on racism, sexism and anti-queer hostility is to be a fixed part of legal education.

The Greens want to make law school more modern. It should be less stressful. More different kinds of people should work in the justice system. Lawyers should learn more about racism and sexism.

The Greens want health professionals working at every elementary school in the long term. They are to raise health promotion early on and close a gap in medical care. In the medium term, school cafeterias are to serve healthy, regional and affordable food.

Every elementary school should one day have a health worker. This person talks with children about healthy food and dental care. They also help children who need medical support. The Greens also want healthy and cheap food in school cafeterias.

The Greens want everyone in the state to have access to health care, regardless of factors such as origin, disability, or language. This includes clearly regulated interpreter costs, accessible medical practices, and care for people without papers or health insurance.

Everyone should be able to see a doctor. This should also apply to people without papers. Interpreters should be paid for. Doctors' offices should be easy to reach for people with disabilities.

The Greens want to strengthen research and teaching on gender-specific medicine and introduce gender medicine as a subject at universities. A women's quota is meant to bring more women into leadership positions in health care. Diagnosing conditions in non-white patients is also to become a fixed part of training.

Illnesses often look different in women and men. The Greens want doctors to learn this better. Universities should teach it as its own subject. More women should get top jobs in health care.

The Greens want to secure care across the whole state, including on the islands and Halligen. General medicine is to be strengthened, municipal health centers supported, telemedicine promoted, and more training and university places created. In nursing, better working conditions are meant to keep skilled staff in the profession.

Rural areas lack doctors and nurses. The Greens want more family doctors in the countryside. There should be more places for training and study. Nurses should get better working conditions.

The Greens want to permanently provide local public health offices with more staff and technology and make public health a strong pillar of the system. Prevention is to become more of a basic principle of health care.

The Greens want to strengthen public health offices. They should get more staff and better technology. More should also be done so that people do not get sick in the first place.

The Greens want a new financing system that does not pay hospitals solely by case numbers. They reject further privatization in the health sector because they see health as a public service. Investment in hospitals is to continue.

Hospitals now get money based on how many cases they treat. The Greens want to change that. Hospitals should also get money for their role in society. Hospitals should not be sold to private companies anymore.

The Greens want midwife care close to home in both urban and rural areas. To achieve this, working conditions and pay are to improve and more university places are to be created. Maternity wards are to get special consideration in hospital planning.

The Greens want enough midwives nearby, in cities and in the countryside. Midwives should have better working conditions and fair pay. There should be more places to study midwifery.

The Greens want people with mental illness to get help faster. More therapists are to be licensed to bill public health insurers, and contact points are to be set up across the state. The platform calls waits of several months unacceptable.

Some people have a mental illness. They often wait many months for help. The Greens want more therapy places. They also want more advice centers close to home.

The Greens want more home-based care and small residential arrangements instead of large facilities. Municipalities are to be allowed to do binding planning of care needs in order to expand local services. This is meant to let people in need of care live self-determined lives and ease the burden on relatives.

The Greens want fewer large care homes. People should get care at home or in small shared homes. Towns and cities should be able to plan care themselves. The federal government should give start-up money for this.

The Greens want to create an independent care office within the state government, headed by a care commissioner. This person is to represent the interests of people who need care and be a point of contact for everyone involved in care. A dialogue on professional self-governance in nursing is also planned.

The Greens want a new office in the state government. One person there works only on care. This person speaks up for people who need care. This person also has a say in new laws on care.

The Greens want higher wages in nursing and equal pay between elder care and hospital nursing. In the long run they aim for a 35-hour week for care workers at full pay. Better conditions are meant to make the profession more attractive and secure patient care.

Care workers should earn more money. Pay in elder care should match pay in hospitals. Later, care workers should work only 35 hours a week. Their pay should stay the same.

The Greens want to create a state-level prevention council in 2022 to advise the health ministry. It is to focus mainly on chronic diseases. In addition, counseling services such as AIDS and drug counseling centers are to be strengthened.

The Greens want a new council for preventing illness. It advises the health ministry. It deals with illnesses that last a long time. Advice centers should get more support, also in rural areas.

The Greens want to prevent illnesses caused by poor diet and lack of exercise. They plan a permanent counseling structure for families, more health education in daycare centers and schools, and more time for sports. A funding program for healthy meals is to be set up together with municipalities.

Bad food and too little exercise make people sick. The Greens want to advise families on this. Schools should offer more sports. Children should learn more about healthy food in daycare and school.

In drug policy, the Greens rely on education, self-determined use and addiction prevention instead of criminalizing people with addictions. They support legalizing cannabis for adults with sales in licensed specialty shops. Drug checking in clubs is to become possible in Schleswig-Holstein as well.

The Greens want to allow cannabis for adults. Special shops should sell it. In clubs, people should be able to have their drugs tested. People with an addiction should get help, not punishment.

The Greens want to improve conditions in the Maßregelvollzug, the detention of mentally ill or addicted offenders in secure clinics. Single rooms are to become the norm, and therapeutic and nursing care is to improve. In the platform's view, good treatment is the best protection against reoffending.

Some offenders are mentally ill. They are placed in a special clinic. The Greens want single rooms for everyone there. There should be more therapy and care. This is meant to prevent new crimes.

The Greens want a multi-year pilot project that pays for treating people without residence papers from a fund, without them having to reveal their identity. For refugees under psychological strain, a statewide plan is to improve psychosocial care.

People without papers can hardly see a doctor. The Greens want a project lasting several years. A fund then pays for treatment in urgent cases. People do not have to give their name. Refugees with mental health problems should get more help.

The Greens want to simplify the recognition of foreign degrees and vocational qualifications and create a state scholarship for supplementary training. Immigrants and refugees should be able to work in the profession they trained for. State programs for labor market integration are to continue.

Many people learned their job in another country. The Greens want them to work in that job here more easily. There should be advice, language courses and money for extra training. Refugees should also get help finding work.

The Greens want refugees to stay no more than three months in state-run reception centers and to move quickly into their own housing. The party rejects work bans and repeated short-term toleration permits (Kettenduldungen). People seeking protection should have access to language learning, education and medical care from the start.

Refugees first live in centers run by the state. The Greens want them to stay there three months at most. After that they should quickly get their own home. The Greens reject bans on working. Children should go to daycare and school right away.

The Greens want to offer language courses to every new arrival and expand what is available. Young and adult refugees should get support to earn a school diploma, which the party sees as the prerequisite for entering skilled work.

The Greens want language courses for everyone who newly arrives. There should be more courses. Adults should also be able to earn a school diploma. With a diploma they can start job training.

The Greens want to introduce legal advice that is independent of government agencies so that people seeking protection know and can use their procedural rights. Existing counseling services are to be developed into a coordinated statewide network.

The Greens want new legal advice for refugees. This advice does not belong to a government office. That way people learn everything about their rights. Counseling centers in the state should work together better.

The Greens want to speed up family reunification by having the state's immigration offices give advance approval. At the federal level the party wants minor status to be determined by the date of application. The state hardship commission should be accessible without a multi-year waiting period.

Many refugees wait a long time for their families. The Greens want to make these procedures faster. The offices should give their approval earlier. People in need should be able to turn to the hardship commission sooner. This commission looks at special individual cases.

The Greens want to oblige immigration offices to proactively inform and advise people about their rights to stay and to naturalize. The aim is to make sure people can actually claim what they are entitled to.

Some people may stay longer or become German citizens. Often they do not know this. The Greens want the office to write to these people on its own. It must also advise them.

The Greens want to place state humanitarian admission programs permanently alongside the asylum process. In the party's view this is the only way to create legal entry routes for especially vulnerable people. Municipalities are to get planning certainty and fair financial compensation.

The state has already taken in 500 people in need. The Greens want to make such programs permanent. That way people in great danger can enter legally. Cities and towns should get money and help from the state for this.

The Greens reject deportations to war and crisis zones and want to push for a general halt to deportations there. Deportation detention is to be abolished, and the party rejects the concept of safe countries of origin.

The Greens do not want to send anyone back to countries at war. Examples are Afghanistan and Syria. The Greens are also against deportation detention. That means locking people up before they are deported. Children and teenagers should never be held this way in the state.

The Greens want to use the state's leeway in residence law in favor of those affected and to equip immigration offices well. Public administrations are to receive anti-discrimination training, women are to be addressed on equal terms, and volunteers in refugee aid are to get reliable support.

The state can decide some things in residence law itself. The Greens want to use this to help the people affected. The offices should be well equipped. Staff should get training against unfair treatment. Volunteer helpers should get steady support.

The Greens want to counter discrimination starting in daycare and school. Teachers and school staff are to learn about discrimination in their studies and in further training. Lessons are also to cover hate speech, fake news and violence against women and queer people.

Some children are treated unfairly at school. This is called discrimination. The Greens want teachers to learn more about it. Lessons should cover hate on the internet and fake news. Violence against women and girls should also be a topic.

The Greens want schools and youth work to be safe places for queer young people. Gender identity and sexual orientation are to be addressed across subjects, not only in sex education. The program says many queer youths do not come out for fear of discrimination.

Queer young people love or live differently from most others. Many hide this at school out of fear. The Greens want schools to be safe places for them. Many subjects should talk about diversity. Teachers should get training on this.

The Greens want to make women and inter, non-binary and trans people more visible in academia and call for quotas for professorships and leadership posts. A statewide coordination office for diversity is to be created. The party rejects a ban on full-face veils at universities.

The Greens want more women in top jobs at universities. They want quotas for this. A quota is a fixed share. Trans, inter and non-binary people should also get more protection and more say. The Greens reject a ban on face veils.

The Greens want to repeal Section 218 of the Criminal Code, which makes abortion a criminal offense. Those affected should have easily accessible options for an abortion close to home. In addition, there is to be help for treating female genital mutilation.

A law makes abortion a crime. The Greens want to remove this law. Women should be able to get an abortion near where they live. Women with genital injuries should also get help.

The Greens want to include people with disabilities in all relevant political processes in the state and remove barriers. Binding rules are to secure accessible participation. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the basis, and inclusion is to be considered in every policy area.

People with disabilities should help make political decisions. There should be fixed rules for this. Information should be easy for everyone to understand. People who need support should get it.

The Greens want a statewide plan to protect women with disabilities from violence. Protection and support services are to be accessible, easy to reach and close to home. The platform cites this group's high risk of experiencing sexual, physical and psychological violence.

Women and girls with disabilities often face violence. The Greens want a statewide plan to protect them. There should be advice centers close to home. These centers should be free of barriers.

The Greens want to recognize sign language as a minority language so that it can be protected and supported. Public administrations are to keep promoting Leichte Sprache (easy-to-read German) and multilingualism. This is meant to give everyone access to important information.

Deaf people speak with their hands. This is called sign language. The Greens want to give this language special protection. Public offices should write more in easy language.

The Greens want to make March 8 a public holiday and significantly raise the share of women in local politics. They also want to tackle different prices for women and men for the same products.

The Greens want a new holiday on March 8. That is Women's Day. More women should take part in local politics. Women should not pay more than men for the same products.

The Greens want to expand women's shelters and counseling centers across the state, especially in rural areas, and fund them long-term. Violence against women is to be treated as a matter of internal security and tackled with a dedicated strategy.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. There should be more women's shelters and counseling centers. Rural areas especially lack such places. They should get lasting funding.

The Greens want to give targeted support to women and girls in career choice, education and professional advancement, especially in technical fields and in starting businesses. Gender budgeting is to be extended in the state budget, and the party wants a federal ban on sexist advertising.

The Greens want to support women and girls at work. More women should study technology and computer science. Women who start a company should get help. Ads that put women down should be banned.

The Greens want to create a state-level office for queer issues to coordinate the state government's queer policy. Counseling for queer people is to be expanded together with municipalities, especially on gender diversity and in rural areas.

The Greens want a commissioner for queer issues. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. There should be more counseling for queer people. This applies especially in rural areas.

The Greens want health and nursing care that responds to the needs of queer people. Facilities would be able to earn a quality seal, staff would receive training, and counseling services would be expanded.

The Greens want better health care for queer people. Queer means, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. Good clinics should get a quality seal. Staff should learn more about this. There should be more counseling.

The Greens want to expand the state action plan "Echte Vielfalt" (Real Diversity) into a version 2.0, working with queer organizations. Queer education, counseling and youth work would get professional structures reachable across the state.

The state has a plan for queer people. It is called "Echte Vielfalt" (Real Diversity). The Greens want to make this plan bigger. It should get more money. Counseling and youth work should get paid staff.

The Greens want to reach a state agreement with Muslim communities and conclude treaties with other religious communities as well. Jewish life is to become more visible, and the state's law on church-state relations is to be updated to reflect today's diversity.

People of many religions live in the state. The Greens want an agreement with Muslims. Jews and Alevis already have one. Jewish life should be easier to see. The rules for religions should become more modern.

The Greens want to make March 8, International Women's Day, a public holiday in Schleswig-Holstein. If further holidays are added later, they will push for January 27 and May 8.

March 8 is International Women's Day. The Greens want this day to be a holiday. Later, two more holidays could follow. These are January 27 and May 8.

The Greens want to draw more women and inter*, non-binary and trans* people into IT jobs and fill IT positions on a parity basis. The platform argues that the digital world has so far been shaped mostly by men and that issues like digital violence get too little attention.

The Greens want more women in IT jobs. This also applies to inter, non-binary and trans people. IT jobs should be shared equally. Girls should get early support in math, technology and science.

The Greens want dedicated funding for IT projects run by women and FINT* people. Hackathons exclusively for these groups are also to be supported.

The Greens want to give money to IT projects by women. This also applies to FINT* people. These are women, inter, non-binary and trans people. There should also be coding events only for them.

The Greens want the state administration to reflect the diversity of society. They plan a recruitment campaign, easier conditions for trans*, inter* and non-binary employees, and gender-balanced dual leadership.

More young people and more women should work in public offices. People from different backgrounds should work there too. Hiring should be easier for trans people. Two people should be able to lead an office together.

The Greens want to introduce a state law against discrimination that strengthens people who are treated unfairly by public authorities. Those affected would be able to claim damages from the state. Civil society organizations are to receive permanent funding.

The Greens want a law against discrimination. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly, for example because of their origin. People treated unfairly by an authority should be able to claim money from the state. Associations should be allowed to sue for them.

The Greens call for an in-depth reckoning with structural and institutional racism, which they regard as a violation of the constitution's equality guarantee. People with a migration background are to be better represented in important positions.

The Greens want to do more against racism. They want to study everyday racism in towns and cities. People from immigrant families should have more say. A federal law should make this happen.

The Greens want to act against racism directed at Muslims and to work with Muslim associations and civil society to do so. Measures against racism toward Black people and against antiziganism are also to be supported at the state level.

The Greens want to fight racism against Muslims. They want to work with Muslim groups. People without a religion should join the talks too. The Greens also want better protection for Black people and Roma.

The Greens want to fight antisemitism in every part of society and provide comprehensive protection for Jewish institutions. The documentation center LIDA and the office of the state commissioner are to be strengthened, and events featuring antisemitic speakers are to receive no state money.

The Greens want to fight hatred of Jews. Jewish people should be safe in the state. One office should record incidents better. Groups that spread hatred of Jews should get no state money. Teachers should get more training.

The Greens want a binding quota of at least 50 percent women in the top management levels of companies in which the state holds a stake. Additional measures are to take inter, trans and non-binary people into account.

The state owns shares in some companies. At least half of the bosses there should be women. This should be required. Inter, trans and non-binary people should also be included.

The Greens want equal support for the state's three national minorities: Sinti and Roma, Frisians and the Danish minority. Their languages are to be supported in German schools as well, and centers would inform the public about the minorities.

Three national minorities live in Schleswig-Holstein. They are Sinti and Roma, Frisians and the Danish minority. The Greens want to support all three equally. Their languages should also be taught in German schools. New centers should inform people about the minorities.

The Greens want to declare 2023 the year of climate education and introduce a statewide climate project week at daycare centers and schools. Climate education is to be part of every curriculum. The platform argues that knowledge and dialogue are needed to understand the climate crisis.

Children and young people should learn more about the climate. In 2023 there should be a climate project week at daycare centers and schools. Climate should be a topic in all curricula. This also applies to vocational schools.

The Greens want to work with private and public players on a plan for how the culture, events and film sector can become climate neutral. The reason given is the sector's share in greenhouse gas emissions.

Concerts, films and festivals also harm the climate. The Greens want to make a plan for this. The culture sector should help write it. In the end, the sector should no longer harm the climate.

The Greens want major sporting events to be climate-neutral and sustainable by 2030 at the latest. Olympic and Paralympic Games in the state would only be possible with a climate-friendly concept and a public referendum.

Big sports events should no longer harm the climate. This should apply by 2030. Visitors should be able to get there without a car. People should vote on whether the Olympic Games come to the state.

The Greens want to create a scientific sustainability council attached to the state parliament. It would track the state's progress on its climate and sustainability goals and propose steps when the state falls behind. The existing sustainability check would also apply to parliamentary initiatives.

The Greens want a council for sustainability at the state parliament. Experts from science sit on this council. They check whether the state reaches its climate goals. They make proposals when the state is too slow.

The Greens want Schleswig-Holstein to be climate neutral by 2035 at the latest, earlier than federal law requires. Climate and species protection would take priority when policy trade-offs are made. A fixed remaining CO2 budget would become the yardstick for all state policy.

The Greens want Schleswig-Holstein to be climate neutral by 2035. Climate neutral means the state no longer harms the climate. Climate and species protection should come first in decisions. The state should only be allowed to emit a fixed amount of CO2.

The Greens want to define climate protection as a public interest and add it as a goal to the state constitution. The program justifies this with the aim of securing a livable future for all generations.

The Greens want to write climate protection into the state constitution. The constitution is the most important law of the state. Climate protection should count as an interest of everyone. This way later generations can also live well.

The Greens want to review all state funding programs for compatibility with climate protection. State subsidies that harm the climate would end. In addition, the state development plan and regional plans should be easier to adjust quickly.

The Greens want to check all state funding. Money for things that harm the climate should stop. The plans for how the state develops should also be easier to change quickly.

The Greens want the state administration to set an example on climate protection. State buildings would get emission-free heat and electricity by 2035 instead of 2040. The administration's vehicles would be emission-free by 2030.

The Greens want the state administration to be a model for climate protection. Its buildings should get heat and power without emissions from 2035. Until now the plan was 2040. The administration's cars should run without emissions by 2030.

The Greens want to launch climate partnerships between municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein and municipalities in the Global South and provide resources for them. The state itself would also enter a partnership with another country. A state fund would finance the projects.

The Greens want climate partnerships with poorer countries. Towns in Schleswig-Holstein would then work together with places there. The state should get a partner too. A state fund should pay for the projects.

The Greens demand that shipping be brought into the emissions trading system. An EU innovation fund is to cushion the cost of new propulsion systems, and a European plan for the shift to emission-free shipping is to be drawn up.

Ships give off exhaust gases. The Greens want ships to pay for that. This is called emissions trading. An EU fund should help pay for new engines. The EU should make a plan for clean ships.

The Greens want to update the Generalplan Küstenschutz (coastal protection master plan) and develop a "Niederungen 2100" lowlands strategy. Building in flood-prone areas is to be avoided where possible. The platform cites rising sea levels and extreme weather.

The sea is rising and storm floods are getting worse. The Greens want to protect the coasts better. There should be a new plan for low-lying areas. People should no longer build where water can reach.

The Greens want a state program to adapt cities to the changed climate, for example with green facades and unsealed ground. A advisory service for municipalities and a state heat protection action plan are to be added.

The Greens want more green in the cities. Plants should grow on house walls. The ground should soak up more rain. That protects against heavy rain. A plan should protect people from strong heat.

The Greens want a faster phase-out of coal power and other fossil energy sources. Schleswig-Holstein is to contribute more than its proportional share to Germany's energy supply and expand power grids and storage with foresight.

The Greens want to stop using coal, oil and gas sooner. Schleswig-Holstein should deliver a lot of green power for Germany. This needs more power lines and storage. Nature should stay protected.

The Greens want to raise the target for onshore renewable electricity to 45 to 50 terawatt-hours by 2030. By 2040, the state's entire energy demand for electricity, heat and transport is to come from renewable sources. The targets are to be set down in the state's Energy Transition and Climate Protection Act.

The Greens want the state to make much more green power. By 2030 it should be 45 to 50 terawatt-hours. That is a unit for a very large amount of power. By 2040 all energy in the state should be renewable. These goals should be written into a law.

The Greens want as many people in the state as possible to benefit from the energy transition. To that end, the Bürgerenergiefonds (citizen energy fund) is to grow, and citizen-owned wind and solar parks are to get help with financing and permits. According to the program, this creates local value and acceptance.

The Greens want citizens to take part in the energy transition. Citizens should be able to build their own wind and solar parks more easily. The state has a fund for this. This fund should get bigger. Renters should also be able to use their own solar power more easily.

The Greens want to help municipalities build their own structures for climate protection. In addition, more pilot projects are to become possible in which municipalities or citizen cooperatives supply electricity and heat themselves.

The Greens want to help towns and villages protect the climate. There should be climate offices and climate officers there. Towns and citizen groups should be able to offer power and heat themselves. A new prize should honor good ideas for protecting nature.

The Greens want to expand onshore wind power beyond the 10 gigawatts agreed so far, with 15 gigawatts as the next interim target. To do this, new sites are to be found and additional priority areas designated.

The Greens want more wind turbines on land. The goal so far is 10 gigawatts of capacity. The new goal is 15 gigawatts. The state will look for new sites. Single turbines and very small wind parks should also be allowed.

The Greens want faster permits for wind turbines and easier replacement of old turbines with new ones (repowering). Technology such as collision warning systems is meant to make wind power and species protection more compatible.

The Greens want wind turbines to get permits faster. The authorities should get more staff. Old turbines should be easier to replace with new ones. Technology should protect birds from the turbines.

The Greens want every suitable roof in the state to carry a solar installation. A solar mandate is to apply to all new buildings; existing buildings are to be retrofitted when ownership changes or the roof undergoes major renovation.

The Greens want solar panels on all suitable roofs. Anyone who builds a new house must put solar panels on the roof. Old houses should get panels when they are sold or the roof is renewed. People with little money should get help. The party also wants more support for balcony solar panels.

The Greens consider ground-mounted solar installations necessary and want to leave site selection with the municipalities. The installations are also meant to offer habitats for animals and plants and to be combined with farming.

The Greens also want solar panels on open land. Towns and villages should keep deciding on the sites themselves. Animals and plants should be able to live under the panels. On some sites, farmers should grow crops or keep sheep at the same time.

The Greens want to switch biogas plants from corn to residues, manure and flower strips. The plants are mainly meant to balance fluctuations in wind and solar power. According to the program, freed-up corn fields could be used for solar energy, organic farming, biodiversity or forest.

Biogas plants need a lot of corn today. The Greens want to change that. The plants should use manure and leftovers. They should deliver power when wind and sun are missing. Other things can then grow on the corn fields.

The Greens consider expanding and building new power lines indispensable for meeting climate targets. All federal states are to speed up grid expansion; burdens on residents and nature are to be kept low through transparency and dialogue.

Green power has to get to where people need it. So the Greens want to build more power lines. All federal states should get faster at this. The party wants to talk openly with residents. The Wadden Sea should be spared.

The Greens want to develop Schleswig-Holstein into a central location for producing, importing and trading green hydrogen in Northern Europe. Hydrogen is to be used specifically where other renewables cannot be used directly, such as in industry and in heavy-duty transport, shipping and aviation.

Green hydrogen is a gas made with green power. The Greens want to make and trade a lot of it in the state. Factories, ships, planes and heavy trucks should use it. The state should help factories switch with money.

The Greens want to create a separate network for transporting hydrogen. To do so, natural gas pipelines, storage sites and consuming facilities are to be converted or replaced with new ones. A uniform "H2-ready" standard is to define when facilities can run on pure green hydrogen right away.

Hydrogen needs its own pipelines and storage. The Greens want to convert old natural gas pipelines or build new ones. Hydrogen plants should be located in the north. There should be a clear rule for when a facility is ready for hydrogen.

The Greens want to clearly exceed the federal target of 50 percent renewable heat by 2030. About 4 percent of buildings are to get energy upgrades each year. Tenant protection and targeted subsidies are meant to keep people from falling into social hardship as a result.

Heating uses half of the energy in the state. The Greens want more heat from renewable sources. Each year about 4 out of 100 buildings should be renovated. This should also lower heating costs. Renters should be protected.

The Greens want to amend the state's Energy Transition and Climate Protection Act again and make climate action mandatory for all municipalities. Every municipality would have to draw up a heat plan. Regional climate agencies and new funds are meant to help.

The Greens want all towns and villages to protect the climate. Each one must make a plan for its heat supply. New advice centers will help small villages most of all. The state will provide money for this.

The Greens want local and district heating networks to stop using fossil fuels by 2035 at the latest. New housing areas should as a rule be planned with carbon-neutral local heating. Solar thermal and geothermal energy are to play a major role.

The Greens want heating networks without oil, gas and coal. This should be done by 2035. New housing areas should get climate-friendly heat. Heat from the sun and from the ground should be used more.

The Greens want new buildings to meet at least the Effizienzhaus 40 standard and renovations to aim for Effizienzhaus 55. At the federal level they want to ensure that no oil or gas-only heating systems are installed from 2023 on. The platform points to the long service life of heating systems.

The Greens want houses that save energy. New houses should need very little energy. From 2023, nobody should install new oil heaters or gas-only heaters. The state should support heat pumps.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for grid expansion costs to be shared nationwide, so that electricity in Schleswig-Holstein is not more expensive than elsewhere. The power market should work with flexible prices, and surplus power should be usable locally. At the same time, energy use should fall.

Power grids cost money. The Greens want to share these costs equally across Germany. Power prices should follow supply. Spare wind power should be used in the state. Everyone should use less energy.

The Greens see Schleswig-Holstein as a hub for electricity and hydrogen in the North Sea and Baltic region. They want to pursue an active European energy policy with neighboring countries and step up the exchange on renewable energy.

Schleswig-Holstein lies between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The Greens want to work more closely with neighbor countries on energy. The state should pass on power and hydrogen. Hydrogen is a gas that stores energy.

The Greens reject an LNG terminal in Schleswig-Holstein and the start-up of Nord Stream 2. New projects that harm the climate should receive no state money. In the platform's view, fossil energy infrastructure has no future.

The Greens do not want a terminal for liquid gas in the state. The gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 should not start. The state should give no money to projects that harm the climate. Other energy sources should be looked at instead.

The Greens want the state's three shut-down nuclear power plants dismantled swiftly and completely. They reject a return to nuclear energy, which they consider expensive and dangerous. A memorial site is to preserve the history of the conflicts over nuclear power.

The state has three nuclear plants that are switched off. The Greens want to take them down quickly and safely. They do not want new nuclear power. A place should remind people of the fight over nuclear power.

The Greens want to scale back and end oil and gas extraction in the state. They reject new oil drilling, fracking and the underground storage of CO2 (CCS). The royalty on crude oil is to rise in order to create an environmental steering effect.

The Greens want to stop producing oil and gas in the state. There should be no new oil drilling. Companies should pay the state more for the oil they pump. Oil production in the Wadden Sea should end soon.

The Greens want urban development to be more ecological and cities to be prepared for the effects of the climate crisis. This includes more greenery, less car traffic and conversion into sponge cities.

Cities should get ready for the climate crisis. There should be more trees and green spaces. Some cities should be able to soak up rainwater better. This is called a sponge city. Fewer cars should be on the road.

The Greens want to measure all of the state's fiscal decisions against sustainability goals and the 1.5-degree target. Investments and funding programs are to be checked in advance for their climate impact, and a fixed share of the budget is to go to climate protection.

The Greens want the state's money to follow climate goals. The state should check first whether spending helps the climate. Spending that harms the climate should go down. At least 5 percent of the budget should go to climate protection.

The Greens want to oblige all public companies in the state to publish sustainability reports. These are to be linked to a sustainability strategy and measures to reach climate neutrality by 2035. State-owned companies would also have to draw up a common-good balance sheet.

Some companies belong to the state or to towns. They should report how sustainably they work. For example, they should state their CO2 emissions. They should be climate neutral by 2035. That means they no longer harm the climate.

The Greens want to cut raw material use in construction significantly and build a circular economy. The share of recycled building materials is to rise to at least 70 percent by 2035. The state is to lead the way with its own buildings.

Construction should use fewer new raw materials. Old building materials should be used again. By 2035, at least 70 percent of building materials should come from recycling. Buildings should be repaired, not torn down, where possible. The state should set an example with its own buildings.

The Greens want better protection for trees across the state. Further legal options are to be examined, and every municipality is to have a tree protection ordinance modeled on Hamburg's.

Trees are good for people and the environment. The Greens want to protect trees better. This applies to private and public land. Every town should have its own rules to protect trees.

The Greens want the state to give priority to sustainable products when it buys goods. In the state administration's cafeterias, the share of organic and regional food would keep rising. The program points to the large influence public purchasing has on markets.

The state buys many things. The Greens want it to buy mainly sustainable products. State cafeterias should offer more organic food from the region. The state should not support unfair business.

The Greens want not just to slow species extinction but to reverse the trend. To do so, new protected areas would be created and existing ones enlarged and better managed. The state's biodiversity strategy would be continued and given resources.

Many animal and plant species are dying out. The Greens want to reverse this. There should be more and larger protected areas. Nature agencies should get more resources. Paid rangers should help in these areas.

The Greens want to prohibit pesticide use in protected areas and create pesticide-free buffer zones around them. Uses that conflict with the purpose of protection would be pushed back.

Pesticides are poisons against pests and weeds. The Greens want to ban them in protected areas. There should also be zones without pesticides around these areas. Other uses should not harm nature there.

The Greens want to rewet at least 8,000 hectares of drained peatland in the coming years and protect existing peatlands. The program describes peatlands as natural CO2 sinks, while farmed peat soils are said to be a major source of greenhouse gases.

Peatlands store a lot of CO2. Dry peatlands give off greenhouse gases instead. The Greens want to make at least 8,000 hectares of peatland wet again. They want to protect existing peatlands. Farmers and owners should get help with this.

The Greens want to preserve the state's forests and put ecosystem protection ahead of timber sales in public forests. To that end, the state forest law and the silviculture guideline for the state forestry agency are to be revised.

Schleswig-Holstein has few forests. The Greens want to protect forests better. In state-owned forests, nature should matter more than selling wood. More forest should be left to itself. Old beech forests should no longer be used.

The Greens want to fully implement the EU Water Framework Directive by 2027 and protect groundwater as the basis of the drinking water supply. In areas with high nitrate levels, no further nutrients are to enter the groundwater.

The Greens want to protect lakes, rivers and groundwater better. Drinking water comes from groundwater. In some areas there is too much nitrate in the water. Nitrate comes from fertilizer, for example. No more should be added there.

The Greens want to permanently protect the Grünes Band (Green Belt) along the former inner-German border in Schleswig-Holstein as a National Nature Monument. In addition, Knicks (traditional hedgerows) are to be better protected, and nature parks, another "Integrated Station" on the Baltic coast and local conservation initiatives are to receive support.

The Green Belt lies along the old border with East Germany. Many animals and plants live there. The Greens want to protect it for good. Knicks should also be better protected. Knicks are wild hedges on earth banks. Nature parks should get more help.

The Greens call for areas in which any harm to nature from human use is ruled out, even if it would be offset elsewhere. Violations of conservation laws are to be punished with significantly higher fines, and enforcement gaps are to be closed.

The Greens want areas that are only for nature. Nobody may disturb nature there. People who break nature protection laws should pay higher fines. One example is cutting down forest illegally. Authorities should be able to check better.

The Greens want to reduce new land take for settlements and transport to under 1.3 hectares per day by 2030 and to net zero by 2050 at the latest. To get there, binding annual interim steps are to be written into the regional plans, and trading in land-use certificates is to be introduced.

More and more land is built over for houses and roads. The Greens want to cut this sharply. From 2050, no new land should be built over on balance. There should be fixed rules for every year. Old buildings and empty lots should be used first.

The Greens want to make Schleswig-Holstein a leader in the circular economy, with an action plan, a zero-waste strategy and a dedicated state agency. Exemptions from the deposit requirement in cross-border retail are to be scaled back, and deposit systems are to be extended nationwide.

The Greens want less waste. Materials should be used again and again. There should be a plan and a new state office for this. At the border with Denmark, cans are sold without a deposit. This exception should be reduced.

The Greens want packaging waste collected statewide in recycling bins instead of plastic bags and back a uniform nationwide recycling bin. A funding bonus is planned for repairing electrical appliances and for retrofits.

A lot of plastic waste is burned and not recycled. The Greens want to change this. Packaging should go into a bin instead of yellow bags. Other plastic and metal should go into the bin too. People who have electrical devices repaired should get extra money.

The Greens want to rule out all use on 20 percent of Schleswig-Holstein's Baltic Sea waters by 2030 and to establish a new national park in the Baltic. In the Wadden Sea National Park, economic use is to end on at least half of the area.

The Greens want to protect the North Sea and the Baltic Sea better. There should be a new national park in the Baltic Sea. One fifth of the state's Baltic waters should be left unused. Half of the Wadden Sea park should be free of business use. Seagrass meadows should grow because they store CO2.

The Greens want to reduce plastic in inland waters and the seas and are pushing for a plastic tax in the Bundesrat and at EU level. Microplastics in cosmetics are to be banned comprehensively.

There is a lot of plastic waste in seas, lakes and rivers. The Greens want to change this. There should be a tax on plastic. Tiny plastic particles in cosmetics should be banned. Fishers should no longer lose nets in the sea.

The Greens want funding for efforts to remove abandoned fishing nets from the sea. They also back the federal coalition's plan to ban plastic dolly ropes and promote environmentally sound alternatives.

Old fishing nets drift in the sea. They are called ghost nets. The Greens want money for taking them out. Dolly ropes are plastic threads on fishing nets. The Greens want them banned.

The Greens want old munitions removed from the North Sea and the Baltic. The state is to advance detection, mapping and the development of new recovery techniques, because the platform says the corroding ordnance releases toxic substances.

A lot of old war munitions lie in the sea. They rust and release poison. The poison gets into fish and mussels. The Greens want the munitions taken out. The state should find them and develop new technology.

The Greens want better prevention of animal epidemics and of diseases that can pass to humans. Animal transports are to become fewer and shorter, and research is to be expanded. Reserve antibiotics would be kept for human medicine only.

The Greens want to prevent animal diseases better. Animals should be transported less often and for shorter distances. There should be more research on this. Certain last-resort antibiotics should be only for people.

The Greens want farms and slaughterhouses inspected more often, at least every five years and also without notice. A state animal welfare plan and a specialized prosecutor's office for animal welfare crimes would be added. The platform argues that inspections also protect the reputation of farms that follow the rules.

The Greens want to check farms and slaughterhouses more often. Each farm should be checked every five years. Some checks come without warning. Special prosecutors should handle cruelty to animals.

The Greens want to sharply cut animal experiments in university teaching and replace them with computer simulations where possible. A professorship for animal-free research is to be set up at the university hospital in Kiel or Lübeck. Animal welfare would also get more room in schools and vocational training.

The Greens want fewer experiments on animals at universities. Computers should replace the experiments where possible. A new professor should advance research without animal testing. Children should learn more about animal welfare at school.

The Greens want to stop the illegal online trade in puppies and other pets and to regulate animal marketplaces in general. Selling wild-caught animals would be banned, and dogs and cats would have to be registered and tagged nationwide. Circuses are to operate without wild animals in the future.

The Greens want to stop the illegal sale of puppies online. Nobody should be allowed to sell animals caught in the wild. Dogs and cats should be registered all over Germany. Circuses should no longer have wild animals.

The Greens want to keep raising state funding for animal shelters and wildlife rescue stations and to keep the process simple. The platform cites ongoing financial problems at these facilities, which it says worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Greens want to give animal shelters more money. Stations for injured wild animals should get more money too. Applying should be easy. Many of these places do not have enough money.

The Greens want a fundamental overhaul of the state hunting law and aim to make Schleswig-Holstein a pioneer of ecological hunting. Hunters' interests are to be better reconciled with nature, species and animal protection.

The Greens want to change the state hunting law a lot. Hunting should respect nature and animals more. Hunters should be allowed to hunt fewer kinds of animals. Ammunition should no longer contain lead.

The Greens want to keep fishing in the North Sea and Baltic Sea while protecting sensitive marine areas. This includes a rapid exit from bottom trawling, stricter rules for gillnets, and subsidies geared toward ecological use of the sea.

Fishing is part of Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want to make it better for the environment. Nets that are dragged over the sea floor should soon be banned. Fishers should get help with the change. Nobody should target endangered fish.

The Greens want an agricultural transition toward climate-neutral farming that gives farms a lasting future. Public farm funding is to be based on the ecological and social services farms provide. Rules for markets are meant to make fair producer prices possible.

The Greens want to change farming. It should not harm the climate or nature. Farms should get public money for what they do for nature and society. Farmers should get fair prices.

The Greens want to raise the share of organically farmed land in the state from 7 percent today to at least 30 percent. State subsidies are to be paid out primarily on ecological criteria. Training and research are also to focus more on organic farming.

The Greens want much more organic farming. Today 7 percent of the land is organic. It should become at least 30 percent. There should be more money and more advice for this.

The Greens reject genetic engineering in farming and forestry, including the so-called new techniques. These are to remain subject to risk assessment and approval under genetic engineering law. The party sees GMO-free production as a competitive advantage.

The Greens say no to genetic engineering in fields and in food. This also applies to new methods. The state should check these methods strictly. The party wants to protect nature and health.

The Greens want more food to be processed and sold within the region. This is meant to secure an economic future for farming. At the same time, education starting in daycare is to teach where food comes from.

The Greens want more food from the region. Small dairies and slaughterhouses should get permits more easily. Children should learn where food comes from. They should also learn to cook fresh meals.

The Greens want to prevent farmland from becoming concentrated among investors and financial firms. To that end, the state's law on land transactions is to be adjusted. Young farmers are to find it easier to take over farms.

The Greens want farmland to belong to many people. Big finance firms should not buy more and more land. The party wants to change a law for this. Young people should be able to take over a farm more easily.

The Greens want to cut pesticide use in half by 2030 as a first step and better protect waters from fertilizer. At the federal level they advocate a pesticide levy. According to the platform, those who cause environmental damage should pay for it themselves.

The Greens want less poison on the fields. By 2030 there should be only half as much. Near rivers and lakes there should be no fertilizer and no poison. Makers and users should pay for damage themselves.

The Greens want meals in daycare centers, schools, hospitals and canteens to be healthier and more sustainable, with a steadily rising share of organic food. A quality label would show how many regional and organic products are used. At the federal level they push for binding food labeling rules.

The Greens want better food in daycare centers, schools and hospitals. There should be more organic food there. A label should show how much food comes from the region. Food packages should clearly say where the food comes from and what is in it.

The Greens want farms to keep fewer animals per unit of land. They name a target of no more than two livestock units per hectare. The reasons given are climate protection, water protection and animal welfare.

The Greens want fewer animals on each piece of land. One hectare should have at most two livestock units. One livestock unit is about one grown cow. This should help the climate, the water and the animals.

The Greens want to move livestock farming to the higher husbandry tiers 3 and 4 over the long term, following the recommendations of the Borchert Commission. A dedicated federal funding tool, such as an animal welfare levy, is to pay for this. Pasture farming and the switch to organic livestock farming would be supported.

The Greens want farm animals to live better. Animals should get more space and time outdoors. Money for this should come from an animal welfare levy, for example. That is an extra charge on animal products. Farmers should find it easier to switch to organic farming.

The Greens want to make transport in the state climate-neutral by 2035 and cut emissions by 70 percent by 2030. A mobility transition law would create the legal framework and set binding expansion targets for walking, cycling and public transit.

The Greens want a new law for transport. More people should walk, cycle or take buses and trains. By 2035, transport should no longer harm the climate. The road-building agency should look after all kinds of transport.

The Greens want to allow municipalities to levy a local transit charge. It would pay for solidarity-based mobility services, such as a mobility pass modeled on the one in Baden-Württemberg.

Towns and villages should be allowed to collect a new charge. The money should go to buses and trains. With it they can offer a mobility pass, for example. Such a pass exists in Baden-Württemberg.

The Greens want a mobility guarantee with minimum service standards: every day from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., a transport option should be available everywhere in the state. The aim is for more people to switch from their own car to public transit.

The Greens want a guarantee for getting around. Everyone should be able to travel daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. In the countryside, on-call buses and shared cars should help. One app should show all options.

The Greens want a rail pact focused on network expansion, reactivating lines and electrification. By 2030 at the latest, all rail traffic is to run electrically. Rail lines should no longer be decommissioned.

The Greens want more rail in the state. Old lines should be used again. By 2030, no diesel trains should run on the timetable. The state should take over unused lines.

The Greens want to make public transit more attractive with reliable schedules, better stations and simpler fares. The BahnCard 50 discount card is to be valid in the state's SH fare system, and a joint fare zone with Hamburg is to be created.

Buses and trains should become more pleasant. The BahnCard 50 should count in the state fare. There should be a shared fare with Hamburg. Stations should get weather shelters and Wi-Fi.

The Greens want freight and heavy-goods transport to become climate-neutral quickly. Their priority is avoiding traffic and moving freight from road to rail. For the truck traffic that remains, the platform relies on electric drives, green hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

The Greens want more goods to travel by train. They want more loading points and rail links for companies. Trucks should only drive short distances. The remaining trucks should run without diesel.

The Greens want to introduce an education ticket that is valid around the clock across the state and costs 365 euros a year. It is meant to ease travel costs for young people and their families and make the shift to sustainable mobility more affordable.

The Greens want a new ticket for young people. It costs 365 euros a year. It works in the whole state at any time. Families should pay less for travel.

The Greens want to invest heavily in bike paths and parking facilities, including at the municipal level. Bike paths are to be in the same good condition as the road next to them. The platform sees the bicycle as a low-cost, emission-free means of transport.

The Greens want to spend a lot of money on cycling. Bike paths should be as good as the roads next to them. There should be more safe parking for bikes. The party also wants to support bike rental.

The Greens want to promote walking as a climate-friendly and healthy way to cover short distances. Sidewalks are to be wide, barrier-free and separated from bike traffic. Pedestrians' rights are to be strengthened at every level.

The Greens want to make walking easier. Sidewalks should be wide and free of obstacles. Bikes should ride separately. Dark underpasses should disappear.

The Greens want private cars to play a smaller role in transport and to run emission-free. To that end, charging infrastructure and car sharing are to be expanded. The number of cars is to fall thanks to attractive public transport options.

The Greens want fewer cars on the road. Cars should no longer produce exhaust. So there should be more charging stations. Sharing cars should also become easier.

The Greens want to direct funding primarily to public transport and rail, arguing that the state's road network is already well developed. They oppose new federal highways. State roads are to be maintained rather than newly built.

The Greens do not want new highways in the state. The money should go to buses and trains instead. The state should look after its roads. It should not build new state roads.

The Greens pursue the goal of zero deaths in road traffic. To get there, they want to push, wherever possible, for a limit of 80 km/h on rural roads and 30 km/h in built-up areas.

The Greens want no one to die in traffic anymore. So cars should drive more slowly. On country roads the limit should be 80 km/h. In towns the limit should be 30 km/h.

The Greens want all of the state's larger ports to operate climate-neutrally by 2035. Port operations are to become emission-free, and climate-neutral ship propulsion is to become a requirement in the long run. The party rejects further deepening of rivers and canals.

The Greens want clean ports by 2035. Ports should then no longer harm the climate. Ships should be able to charge power or fill up with hydrogen there. Rivers and canals should not be made deeper.

The Greens want to expand digital equipment in daycare centers and write a state framework for it into the daycare law. This is meant to ease documentation, communication with parents and media education.

Daycare centers should get better digital tools. Then writing things down goes faster. Daycare staff and parents can talk more easily. The state should make a plan for this. The plan should be part of the daycare law.

The Greens want everyone in the state to be able to use digital services and to learn how to deal with media critically. Digital guides are to help people, libraries are to be expanded, and educational institutions are to be better equipped.

The Greens want everyone to be able to use the internet. Helpers will support older people and people with little money. Libraries will become places to learn and try things out. Daycare centers and schools will get enough money and technology for this.

The Greens want fiber connections in every region by 2025 and any remaining gaps closed quickly. The state funding program is to continue and in the future also cover cities. For mobile service, dead zones are to disappear and carriers would be required to offer national roaming.

The Greens want fast internet everywhere in the state. The state should keep paying to help build it, also in cities. Cell phone service should be good everywhere. Customers should be able to use other carriers' networks too.

The Greens want every service of the state and municipalities to be available digitally and administrative processes redesigned beyond the requirements of the Online Access Act. The digitalization ministry is to be kept and given more powers. Investment in AI and other future technologies would continue.

The Greens want people to handle all government business online too. The digital ministry should stay and get more tasks. The state parliament should get its own committee for digital topics. The state should keep investing in artificial intelligence.

The Greens want to switch the state administration to free and open-source software by the end of the 20th legislative term. Software the state develops itself is to be open to the public. An open data strategy would also make more non-personal data from public bodies accessible.

The Greens want state offices to use free software. Anyone may look at and use free software. The state should also write its own programs and share them with everyone. More government data should be public, but no data about individual people.

The Greens want all groups of the population to be able to use digital services. To that end, funding for the "Digitale Knotenpunkte" (digital hubs) is to continue, with hubs in every region. Analog options would remain for people who cannot or do not want to use digital services.

The Greens want everyone to be able to use digital services. Every region should have digital hubs. These are places that make it easier to use digital services. People who do not want to go online should still be able to deal with offices offline.

The Greens want to draw up a state strategy for environmentally and climate-friendly information technology. They point to the growing energy and resource demand caused by digitalization.

Computers and data centers need a lot of power and raw materials. So the Greens want a plan for the state. The plan is called Green IT. That means computer technology that is good for the environment.

The Greens want to bring new data centers specifically to Schleswig-Holstein. Their reasoning is that energy in the north is already climate-neutral.

Data centers need a lot of power. The north has a lot of wind power. So the Greens want new data centers to come to Schleswig-Holstein. The heat from the data centers should be put to use.

The Greens want to modernize and expand civil protection. Plans include a new state situation and competence center, a state stockpile of essential goods, new vehicles and preparations for prolonged power outages.

The Greens want the state to be better prepared for disasters. A new center should lead large operations. A warehouse should keep important things like medical supplies. Helpers should get new vehicles. The state should also prepare for long power cuts.

The Greens want to extend the MoWaS warning system with cell broadcast, more sirens and digital billboards. People with disabilities are to receive special attention in warnings and evacuations, and a state portal is to inform about risks and preparedness.

The Greens want better warnings when there is danger. Warnings should come straight to cell phones. There should be more sirens. People with disabilities should get special help. A website should explain how to prepare.

The Greens want the police to be adequately staffed and equipped but reject additional weapons systems. Training is to focus more on de-escalation, civic education and dealing with group-based hostility. Receipts would become mandatory for identity checks.

The police should be well equipped. But the Greens do not want more and more weapons for the police. Officers should learn more about calming conflicts. People who are checked should get a receipt.

The Greens reject the blanket storage of communications data without specific cause and want to target concrete dangers instead. They also reject the current use of source telecommunications surveillance and remote searches of devices, as well as body cams inside homes.

The Greens oppose storing everyone's data without a reason. The police should act against real dangers in a targeted way. The police should not secretly spy on phones and computers. They should not use body cameras inside homes either.

The Greens want to step up prosecution of hate crime, online offenses and money laundering. Specialized units of police and prosecutors are to work together, and victims are to get better support. Crime statistics are to become more informative.

The Greens want to act more strongly against hate crime. Police and prosecutors should work together well. Victims should get more help. Crimes on the internet and money laundering should also be pursued more.

The Greens want to significantly reduce the number of domestic violence offenses. To that end, support and counseling services and prevention are to be expanded, and violations of protection orders punished more strictly.

The Greens want less violence in families and relationships. Victims should get more help and advice. Offenders should have to take a training course early on. Anyone who keeps approaching a victim can be detained.

The Greens want human trafficking to be prosecuted consistently and victims to be better protected. At the federal level they advocate a right to stay for those affected; the state should also shield them from deportation as far as possible.

Human trafficking also happens in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want to pursue the offenders strictly. The victims should be allowed to stay in Germany. Counseling centers for victims should be strengthened.

The Greens want to review existing deradicalization, exit and prevention programs and expand the ones that work. The platform sees prevention as a task for society as a whole, with government and civil society working together.

The Greens want to check programs against extremism. Good programs should grow. This should keep people from becoming radical. Government and community groups should work together.

The Greens want to reform the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency). Clear legal rules are to apply to informants and data storage, and the state parliament is to exercise stronger oversight.

The Greens want to change the Verfassungsschutz. That is the state's domestic intelligence agency. There should be clear rules for informants and for stored data. Parliament should watch the agency more closely.

The Greens want legal and security policy to pay more attention to victims of crime. Counseling and support services are to be expanded, and agencies are to reach out to victims on their own initiative.

The Greens want to help victims of crime more. There should be more counseling and support. Helpers should reach out to victims themselves. Victims should not be left alone.

The Greens see criminal law as a last resort. No one is to be jailed for petty offenses, jail time in place of unpaid fines is to be largely abolished, and the "small amount" of cannabis that goes unprosecuted is to rise to 20 grams.

The Greens want to send fewer people to prison. Small offenses should not lead to jail. People who cannot pay a fine should do community service instead. A larger amount of cannabis should go unpunished.

The Greens want the prison system to focus more on reintegration in order to reduce reoffending. This includes more qualified staff, better psychiatric care, a stronger open prison system and a building program for the facilities.

Prisoners should find their way back into society after release. The Greens want to modernize prisons for this. There should be more staff. Prisoners with mental illness should get better help.

The Greens want to better protect victims of far-right violence and give them a right to stay if they lack permanent residence status. The platform sees this as a signal against racist attackers' goal of driving people out of the country.

The Greens want to help victims of far-right violence. Some victims do not have a secure right to live here. They should be allowed to stay in Germany. Victims should also get psychological help and compensation.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the greatest danger to society and want security agencies to make fighting it their top priority. Far-right events are to be monitored and threatened places protected.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger. Police and agencies should fight it first. Authorities should watch far-right concerts. Threatened places should get protection.

The Greens want security agencies to get better at detecting far-right networks and violence, up to and including terrorism. Investigators are to gain more social science expertise, and police and the judiciary are to receive targeted training.

The Greens want police and agencies to spot far-right extremists better. The agencies should get more expert knowledge. Police and courts should get more training. This should help solve far-right violent crimes.

The Greens demand that the state consistently prosecute illegal content online and that platforms then delete it. Public agencies and civil society groups are to receive funding for the fight against online hate.

The Greens want to fight hate on the internet. The state should prosecute illegal posts. The platforms should then delete these posts. Agencies and groups should get money for this work.

The Greens call for stricter gun laws. Identified right-wing radicals are to lose their firearms licenses, semi-automatic weapons are to be banned for private individuals, and private gun ownership is to be checked more strictly.

The Greens want stricter rules for guns. Right-wing radicals should not be allowed to own guns. Private people should not have semi-automatic guns. Officials should check guns and ammunition in homes closely.

The Greens want to combat money laundering more effectively in order to uncover the financial flows of organized crime. Plans include a stronger coordination office in the state, a cross-agency task force, more staff, and a Bundesrat initiative for a tougher money laundering law.

The Greens want to do more against money laundering. Money laundering means criminals hide where their money comes from. Police, prosecutors and tax investigators should work together more closely. People should be allowed to pay less in cash at once.

The Greens want everyone aged 16 and over who lives permanently in the state to be allowed to vote. People with a migration background should also be adequately represented in public institutions, and their self-run organizations should receive funding.

The Greens want voting rights for everyone aged 16 and up. This should apply to all who live here permanently. Groups run by immigrants should get money. More people with immigrant roots should work in the police, schools and parliaments.

The Greens want to anchor children's right to participate and the priority of the child's best interests in the state constitution. According to the program, children and young people should be better represented in politics and public life because decisions affect them too.

The Greens want to strengthen children's rights. Children should have a say. The well-being of children should come first. Both should be written into the state constitution.

The Greens want children and young people to be consistently involved at all political levels as well as in daycare, school, youth work and youth welfare. To that end, a state youth council and a state commissioner for children and youth are to be created.

Children and young people should have a say everywhere. This covers politics, daycare, school and youth welfare. The Greens want a youth council for the whole state. A commissioner should look after participation.

The Greens want to cut the state administration's office space by one fifth by 2035. Working from home and coworking spaces would make up an appropriate share of work. Buildings would be designed to allow flexible ways of working.

The Greens want less office space for the state administration. By 2035 it should be 20 percent less. More staff should work from home or in shared offices. New buildings should fit flexible work.

The Greens want to make planning procedures faster while keeping them legally sound. They justify this with the energy transition, infrastructure and business settlement. At the same time, participation rights for citizens and associations are to be strengthened.

Planning for building projects often takes a long time. The Greens want it to go faster. The rule of law should still apply. Citizens and associations should have a say early on.

The Greens want state parliament committees and local councils to be able to meet digitally or in hybrid form even outside emergencies. This is meant to make participation easier for people who, for example, have childcare duties.

Committees and local councils should be allowed to meet online. This should not only apply in emergencies. Then more people can take part. For example, parents who look after children.

The Greens want to make the state administration more citizen-friendly and modern. A new Public Innovation Agency is to help the state and municipalities solve problems and draw on ideas from society.

Public offices should become more modern. Letters and forms from offices should be easier to understand. A new agency should help offices solve problems. Ideas from citizens should help with this.

The Greens want the state parliament and local councils to be made up equally of women and men, while also taking into account people who are neither male nor female. In addition, civic education, online citizens' initiatives and the right of petition are to be strengthened.

The Greens want equal numbers of women and men in parliaments. People of other genders should be considered too. Children and adults should learn more about democracy. Online citizens' initiatives should become easier.

The Greens want a mandatory lobby register for Schleswig-Holstein and stricter disclosure duties for members of the state parliament. According to the program, politics should be transparent and free of economic conflicts of interest.

The Greens want a lobby register. That is a list of groups that try to influence politics. Lawmakers should make all side jobs and donations public. This should help people trust politics more.

The Greens want to establish citizens' assemblies by law at state and municipal level in order to involve citizens more directly in politics and lawmaking on selected issues. The results must be debated but need not be adopted.

The Greens want citizens' assemblies. In them, ordinary people discuss a topic. Politicians must deal with the results. But they do not have to carry them out.

The Greens want children, young people and people with disabilities to be involved in municipalities on a binding basis. Volunteer local politics is to be made easier through digital meetings and training, and the division of tasks among local levels is to be reviewed.

Children and young people should have a say in their town. The same goes for people with disabilities. Volunteer local politicians should be able to join meetings online. The Greens also want to check who should do which tasks.

The Greens want everyone in the state to be able to assert their rights easily. They want to examine whether statewide public legal advice can be set up, because the platform says the existing legal aid advice system no longer works well, especially in rural areas.

Everyone should be able to get their rights easily. The Greens want to look into public legal advice across the state. People with little money should learn more about the help they can get. The information should be easy to understand.

The Greens want to give courts and prosecution authorities more staff and modern technology. The platform says proceedings take too long, and processes are to become faster and closer to citizens.

Courts have a lot of work. Cases take a long time. So the Greens want more staff for the justice system. Courts should get modern technology.

The Greens want to change how judges in the state are elected and promoted. This is meant to strengthen trust in the rule of law after the current procedure, according to the platform, drew repeated criticism.

The Greens want new rules for electing judges. The rules for promoting judges should change too. The process should be open and easy to follow. People should be able to trust the courts.

The Greens want to give civil society organizations working against right-wing extremism a long-term outlook. Civic education is to be funded permanently, and democracy education is to reach people of all ages.

Many groups work against right-wing extremism. The Greens want to pay for this work over the long term. Jobs there should be permanent. People of all ages should be able to learn about democracy.

The Greens want closer cooperation with Hamburg and the other northern German states. Plans include a joint innovation agency, coordinated spatial planning, bike highways and better-aligned public transit fares. The party points to an OECD report on the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.

Schleswig-Holstein should work more closely with Hamburg. Other northern states should join in. A shared agency should support new ideas, especially in clean energy. Fast bike routes should be built. Bus and train fares should fit together.

The Greens want to use all EU funding in the state for investments in sustainability. Allocation would follow the principles of the European Green Deal. The goal is to make the state a model region for this EU program.

The state gets money from the EU. The Greens want to use this money for a sustainable future. The money should not go to things that harm the climate. Schleswig-Holstein should become a model for the EU's climate plan.

The Greens call for a European "Blue Deal" that addresses use and protection of the seas together. EU directives are to be better aligned and protection measures implemented faster. Underwater noise is also to be reduced.

The Greens want a shared EU plan for the seas. It is called the Blue Deal. The plan should cover both protecting and using the seas. EU rules should fit together better. It should get quieter under water.

The Greens want deeper cooperation with Denmark, for example on climate neutrality, marine protection, education, health and transport. A citizens' conference would develop concrete projects, and a joint innovation fund would support them. Cross-border public transit is to be expanded.

Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark are neighbors. The Greens want more joint projects. Citizens from both sides should collect ideas. A shared fund should pay for good projects. Buses and trains should cross the border more easily.

The Greens want to make the EU more visible in the state and advocate a European agency for civic education. Cross-border programs are to grow and become less bureaucratic. The Conference on the Future of Europe should continue its work and lead to a later convention.

The Greens want people to understand the EU better. A European office for civic education should be set up. Towns across Europe should have more partnerships. Citizens should have more say in the EU. Europe should grow closer together.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for strict, human-rights-based regulation of arms exports. Where this costs contracts in the state, projects to convert to civilian production are to be supported. This is meant to give workers in the arms industry other career prospects.

Some companies in Schleswig-Holstein build weapons. The Greens want stricter rules for selling weapons abroad. Human rights should count in these rules. If companies lose orders, the state should help the workers.

The Greens want to expand cooperation with the Baltic Sea states because, in their view, marine protection, the climate crisis and security issues can only be solved jointly. Minority and human rights are to be the basis. Civil society and cultural exchange are also to grow.

Many countries border the Baltic Sea. The Greens want to work with them more. This is about protecting the sea and the climate. Human rights should apply in this work. Youth groups and artists should also connect more.

The Greens want to provide more money for culture and secure cultural offerings for the long term. A cultural development plan is to be drawn up, and cultural policy would focus more on cultural diversity.

The Greens want to give more money to culture. Cultural offers should stay safe. The state should make a plan for culture. Juries and committees should include many different kinds of people.

The Greens want to fund socio-cultural centers on a permanent basis rather than only through projects. The investment program for the independent arts scene is to be extended and broadened.

Socio-cultural centers are local meeting places for culture. The Greens want to give them steady money. Independent theaters and small cinemas should also keep getting money. The program for this should grow.

The Greens want to make culture part of the state's economic strategy so the sector gains access to business and start-up support. Cultural education is to get more room from daycare through school.

Culture also brings money and jobs to the state. So people in culture should be able to get business support. Children should experience more culture in daycare and school. The social insurance fund for artists should stay.

The Greens want to secure cooperation between music schools and general schools by law. A pop culture office is meant to keep professional musicians in the state.

Music schools should work together with regular schools. A new law should secure this. There should also be an office for pop culture. Musicians can get advice and help there.

The Greens want to reduce the repair backlog at theaters together with municipalities and expand film funding. Owner-run cinemas are to be kept as cultural venues.

Many theaters need repairs. The state should help with money. There should also be more money for films. Small cinemas should stay, especially in rural areas.

The Greens want to develop libraries into places for meeting and learning. They plan statewide investment in digitization and buildings, plus a funding program for digitizing cultural heritage.

Libraries should be more than places to borrow books. People should meet and learn there. The state should pay for new technology and for the buildings. Old cultural treasures should be saved in digital form.

The Greens want to make art more visible in public spaces. The federal guideline "Kunst am Bau" (art in public buildings) is to continue, and a state guideline for art in public space is to be relaunched.

The Greens want more art in public places. For public buildings, part of the money should go to art. Artist houses should keep getting money. Artists' works should be recorded in databases.

The Greens want to develop the state's memorial site plan further and put memorials on a more professional footing. Besides the Nazi era, far-right violence after 1945 and the state's colonial past are also to be examined.

Memorial sites remind people of crimes in the past. The Greens want to support these places better. There should also be places for victims of far-right violence. The state should study its role in colonialism. Old monuments should be preserved.

The Greens want to strengthen media diversity in the state, support independent outlets and expand public broadcasting in the digital sphere as well. The media authority for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein is to be strengthened in overseeing large tech companies.

Most newspapers in the state belong to just two publishers. The Greens want more different media. They want to support independent radio and open channels. The broadcaster NDR should become more diverse and offer more online.

The Greens want to keep funding grassroots and competitive sports according to need and renovate sports facilities. Clubs are to become more inclusive and get support for anti-discrimination work.

The Greens want to keep giving sports enough money. Gyms and fields should be repaired. People with disabilities should be able to join in everywhere. Nobody should be treated badly in a club.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim. To get there, they plan to fund more swimming facilities and strengthen swimming lessons in schools.

The Greens want all children to be able to swim. There should be more swimming pools. More teachers should be trained to teach swimming. Adults should get swimming courses too.

The Greens want to strengthen e-sports and help set up a state association that would run the state e-sports center and receive state funding. At the same time, clubs are expected to build up addiction prevention and media education.

E-sports means playing video games in competitions. The Greens want to support e-sports clubs. There should be a state association for e-sports. The state should pay for it. Clubs should also help protect players from gaming addiction.

The Greens want to expand advice and information services for consumers and strengthen the consumer advice center and market surveillance authorities. Restaurants would get a hygiene rating label modeled on Denmark's system.

The Greens want to protect customers better. The consumer advice center helps people. It should get more support. Restaurants should show at the door how clean they are. A sticker would show this.

The Greens want to keep living and working in the countryside attractive by expanding infrastructure. This includes public transit, medical care, shopping, housing and places to meet.

The Greens want to improve life in the countryside. There should be good buses and trains. Doctors, shops and meeting places should be nearby. New homes should be built too, but without using much new land.

The Greens want to help municipalities better coordinate daily schedules with how local life is organized spatially. A two-year action program is to be funded for this.

Many people have too little time in daily life. The Greens want towns to help with this. There should be money for it for two years. After that, towns should have time offices.