Linke on climate and energy

The Left wants to promote wind and solar power as well as storage, and to involve local residents. Green hydrogen is to be used only where no more climate-friendly solution exists. Energy costs are to be shaped along social lines, among other things by cutting industry discounts.

The Left wants more power from wind and sun. Local people should have a say. Power should be stored better. Green hydrogen should only be used where nothing better works. Energy should stay affordable for everyone. Oil companies should pay an extra tax.

Battery storage and other forms of energy storage are to be funded. As uses for green hydrogen, the program names the chemical and heavy industries, aviation and shipping, and backup power plants. Waste heat from hydrogen production is to feed district heating networks, and regional value chains for hydrogen and power-to-X are to be built. Industry discounts that the party considers unjustified are to go. At the federal level, it wants to push for a windfall profits tax on oil companies, and offshore wind power is to be strengthened.

The Left wants to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern climate-neutral by 2045 at the latest, with verifiable interim targets. The costs of the transition are to be shared on a solidarity basis because, in the platform's view, the climate crisis is also a social issue.

The Left wants the state to be climate-neutral by 2045. That means the state no longer harms the climate. There should be fixed targets along the way. The costs should be shared fairly.

Greenhouse gas emissions are to fall by at least 38 percent by 2030 and by 75 percent by 2035. Emission caps are planned for industry, transport, agriculture and energy, and the state administration is to operate climate-neutrally as early as 2030. The state's climate law (Klimaverträglichkeitsgesetz) is to be implemented with an action plan, public participation, evaluation and adjustment. Households and small and medium-sized businesses are to get relief, and citizens a greater stake in the expansion of renewable energy. Climate-damaging subsidies are to end.

The Left wants to rewet all drained peatlands used for farming or forestry by 2045 and fund this comprehensively. The platform treats peatlands, forests and soils as natural carbon stores; affected regions are to be supported by a structural change law.

Wet peatlands store a lot of CO2. So the Left wants to make all dried-out peatlands wet again. This should happen by 2045. Affected regions and businesses should get help.

Farming on wet peatlands, known as paludiculture, is to get better conditions. A structural change law is to support areas and industries affected by restoration. Forest cover is to rise to at least 30 percent by 2030, and reforestation is to continue. Soil protection programs are to be carried out in full. Regional planning is to include targets and quotas for sparing use of land.