Protect biodiversity, adapt the city to climate impacts
The Left calls for a comprehensive biodiversity strategy with firm targets and deadlines. At the same time, Hamburg would invest in protection against heavy rain and heat because, according to the program, such weather events are increasing.
The Left wants to better protect animals and plants in Hamburg. There would be a plan with fixed goals. The city should prepare for heat and heavy rain. Old trees should stay standing.
Against heavy rain, paved surfaces would be unsealed and facilities built to retain and absorb water. Against heat, the program calls for preserving cold-air corridors, more green roofs, free drinking water points and better workplace protection; measures would be ranked by social criteria. Moors would be preserved as carbon stores, the Vollhöfner forest would become a nature reserve, and trees would take priority in planning. To conserve resources, a repair bonus and lending and repair shops would be supported. In addition, dumpster diving would no longer be punishable, nuclear transports through Hamburg would end, and the gas sulfuryl fluoride would be banned in the port for now.
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„eine vollumfängliche Biodiversitätsstrategie mit konkreten Zielen und Fristen für ganz Hamburg.“Translation: a comprehensive biodiversity strategy with concrete targets and deadlines for all of Hamburg.
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- Climateleaning climate first
Preserving moors as carbon stores, unsealing land and a provisional ban on a climate-damaging gas expand climate and environmental protection step by step.