What do the parties in Hamburg say on climate and energy?

The AfD wants to abolish energy efficiency requirements and levies for buildings, which it considers excessive. Besides raw material prices and interest rates, the program names mandatory solar roofs and energy retrofits as drivers of construction costs.

Building is very expensive in Hamburg. The AfD blames rules on saving energy, too. One rule says new roofs need solar panels. The AfD wants to get rid of these rules.

The AfD wants to reverse the coal phase-out and bring all available power plants back online immediately. The Moorburg plant should run on coal again instead of being turned into a hydrogen project. The party cites supply security and independence from imports.

Germany plans to stop using coal. The AfD wants to stop that plan. All power plants should run again right away. The Moorburg plant should burn coal again. The AfD rejects a hydrogen project there.

Citizens and property owners should be free to choose between district heating, oil, gas and heat pumps. The AfD rejects the heating law pushed by the "traffic light" coalition, which it describes as a heating ban and a de facto heat pump mandate.

Everyone should choose how to heat their home. It can be gas, oil, district heating or a heat pump. The AfD opposes the heating law. It says the law forces people to use heat pumps.

The AfD wants to halt construction of new wind turbines in Hamburg. Existing turbines should not be replaced when their permits expire. It cites rising electricity prices, grid risks and the protection of birds and bats.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in Hamburg. Old turbines should not be replaced later. The AfD says wind power makes electricity more expensive. It also says turbines harm birds and bats.

The AfD considers the nuclear phase-out a mistake and wants new nuclear power plants built in Germany again. Hamburg itself is not a suitable site, but it should support research on reactors. In the program's view, this would lower energy prices and stabilize the grid.

Germany shut down its nuclear plants. The AfD thinks that was wrong. New nuclear plants should be built again. But not in Hamburg. Hamburg should help with research.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg an internationally visible hub for renewable energy in northern Europe. To that end, the hydrogen network should grow outward from the port, and import terminals for hydrogen and related fuels should be planned faster.

The CDU wants Hamburg to be an important place for renewable energy. For this, there should be a network for hydrogen. It starts in the port and should grow quickly. Plants for importing hydrogen should also be planned faster.

The CDU calls for a funded plan to better prepare downtown for heat and heavy rain. More greenery is meant to cool streets and buildings, while infiltration areas and collection systems are to absorb rainwater.

Downtown Hamburg has very little green space. The CDU wants more plants and trees there. That should cool the city in hot weather. In heavy rain, open ground and special systems should take up the water.

The CDU wants to advance climate protection through new technologies, market incentives, and openness to all technologies, and rejects bans as a tool. The costs and benefits of measures are to be weighed scientifically.

The CDU wants to protect the climate with new technology. It rejects bans. It prefers incentives. Costs and benefits of each measure should be checked. The environment agency should get more staff and approve things faster.

The CDU wants to rely on incentives rather than legal obligations for energy retrofits of buildings and to adjust retrofit targets to costs and the shortage of skilled workers. In transport, e-mobility, green hydrogen, more charging points, and buses with alternative drives are meant to cut emissions.

The CDU wants buildings to use less energy. It wants incentives instead of duties. The targets should be doable. In transport, it wants to support electric cars and hydrogen. There should be many more charging stations. All buses should get new drives step by step.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg a leading location for renewable energy in Northern Europe and to bring in industrial manufacturing for it. The shift to a sustainable economy is meant to create new jobs in the metropolitan region.

The CDU wants Hamburg to lead in clean energy. Companies should build things like wind turbines or batteries here. The CDU wants to use land in the port for this. This should create new jobs.

The CDU wants to prepare Hamburg for the effects of climate change because, in its view, some changes can no longer be reversed. This includes a more capable sewer system, dike protection, and more attention to the urban climate in planning.

The climate has already changed. The CDU wants to prepare Hamburg for this. The sewers should get better. The dikes should protect the city. City and green planning should consider the local climate.

The CDU supports the broadest possible trading of emission allowances for greenhouse gases in Europe and worldwide. It welcomes European legislation on environmental and climate protection and commits to CO2 targets that are ambitious but, in its view, realistic.

Hamburg alone can hardly protect the climate. So the CDU wants more cooperation across borders. Those who emit greenhouse gases should have to buy rights for it. This should apply in Europe and worldwide. Large natural areas should be protected.

The CDU wants to pay for the overhaul of the energy system with subsidy programs, cheap loans and guarantees, so that energy and water do not become much more expensive. It also wants to expand the energy supply and give more support to electricity storage.

Changing the energy system costs a lot of money. The CDU wants to offer cheap loans for this. The city should also guarantee loans. This should keep power and water from getting much more expensive. The CDU also wants to support power storage.

The CDU wants to advance photovoltaics in Hamburg through a city subsidy program rather than mandates, and to put systems on public buildings. It rejects wind turbines right next to homes or in nature reserves and wants to make up for missing land through treaties with other states.

The CDU wants more solar panels in Hamburg. It wants to give money for this but not force anyone. City buildings should get solar panels. Wind turbines should not stand right next to homes. They should not stand in nature reserves either.

The CDU considers the current city government's heat planning flawed and wants to present an accurate heat map for every building. In addition, deep geothermal energy and waste heat from industrial processes are to be used more for heating.

The CDU wants to make a new heat map for Hamburg. The map should show for each building which heating is possible. There should also be advice and help with paying. The CDU also wants to use heat from deep in the earth. Heat from factories should no longer go to waste.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a fast rollout of the Klimageld (climate dividend). Revenue from the carbon charge would flow back as a payment to all residents. Climate policy should not put an outsized burden on low and middle incomes.

The Greens want a climate payment. The state collects money from the carbon charge. It should pay this money out to everyone. This helps people with little money the most.

The Greens want to develop a "social check" in Hamburg and write it into the state climate protection law. Climate measures would be reviewed during lawmaking for who bears how much of the burden. No one should be overwhelmed by climate policy.

The Greens want a social check for climate laws. The check asks: Who has to pay how much? Costs should be shared fairly. People with little money should get extra help.

The Greens want to continue shifting Hamburg's energy supply away from fossil fuels. The coal phase-out is to be completed ahead of the federal target of 2030. Wood from forests should not be burned in large power plants.

Hamburg should soon stop burning coal. This should happen before 2030. The Greens also do not want to burn forest wood in power plants. Instead they want waste heat, large heat pumps and hydrogen.

The Greens want to keep expanding wind power in Hamburg and meet the federal land-area target as early as possible. By 2028, 0.5 percent of the state's area is to be designated for wind energy. Residents should be able to share in the profits.

The Greens want more wind turbines in Hamburg. By 2028 there should be enough land for them. Turbines should also stand in the port. People living nearby should share in the profits.

The Greens want to speed up the rollout of solar installations and implement a comprehensive photovoltaics strategy. Installed capacity is to grow to 800 megawatts peak by 2030 and 1.5 gigawatts peak by 2035. The city is to lead the way on its own buildings.

The Greens want many more solar panels in Hamburg. They should not only be on roofs. Balconies, building walls and parking lots are possible too. The city should start on its own buildings.

The Greens want to upgrade Hamburg's power grid so that it can run entirely on renewable electricity. Large-scale and local storage facilities are to be built for this. Distribution grids are to be modernized, digitized and made more flexible.

Solar panels and wind turbines need good power grids. The Greens want to renew these grids. Large and small power storage units should be added. Then power is always there.

The Greens want to cut energy demand significantly in buildings, industry and transportation. They plan a socially balanced renovation drive for residential buildings. High energy-efficiency requirements are to remain in place for new construction.

Buildings should use less energy. So the Greens want to renovate many homes. This should be done fairly. New buildings should still meet strict energy-saving rules.

The Greens want to switch district heating to climate-neutral sources and extend the city-owned network. More households should be able to heat in a climate-friendly way while heating costs stay affordable. City-owned companies are to provide legally secure pricing.

District heating comes to homes through pipes. The Greens want to make this heat without coal. More buildings should get a connection. Prices should be clear and secure for customers.

The Greens want every building to take part in the heating transition. Where a district heating connection is not possible, neighborhood-level solutions and local heating networks are to help. Municipal heat planning is to set the framework and give residents guidance.

Not every building can get district heating. Small heating networks in the neighborhood should help there. Neighbors then share clean energy. The city makes a heat plan for this. The plan shows which heating fits where.

The Greens want to secure subsidies for buying heat pumps. Federal funding is to stay in place and be sensibly supplemented by Hamburg. The platform points to high upfront costs that only pay off after years of operation.

Heat pumps are still expensive to buy. Later they save money. So the state helps pay for them. The Greens want to keep this help. Hamburg should add its own help too.

The Greens want to give high priority to green hydrogen in order to make industry climate-neutral. The Port of Hamburg is to become northern Germany's center for hydrogen technology. Electrolyzers and an industrial hydrogen network are to be built in Moorburg.

Green hydrogen is made with power from wind and sun. It causes no emissions. The Greens want to produce it in the port. Factories, ships and planes should use it. This should start in 2027.

The Greens want to further develop Hamburg's climate protection law and climate plan over the next five years. The goal is to cut CO2 emissions by 70 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. The resulting burdens are to stay small and be shared in a socially fair way.

Hamburg has a climate protection law. The Greens want to improve it. By 2030 Hamburg should emit much less CO2. The law should contain enough measures for that. Costs should be shared fairly.

The Greens want to set annual emission amounts for individual sectors that fall year by year. If an amount is exceeded, an emergency program is to make up the shortfall. The measures in the climate plan are to be adequately funded.

Each sector may only emit a set amount of CO2 per year. This amount gets smaller every year. If emissions are too high, the city must act fast. It then presents an emergency program.

The Greens want Hamburg to be CO2-neutral as early as 2040, five years ahead of the national target year. To that end they support the citizens' initiative "Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid." After 2030, too, Hamburg is to pursue more ambitious targets than the federal government.

Hamburg should be climate-neutral from 2040. That means the city then emits no CO2 on balance. Germany plans this only for 2045. The Greens support a citizens' initiative for this.

The Greens want the city to factor adaptation to climate change into every decision and planning process. Hamburg's climate adaptation strategy is to be developed further and made binding. The platform justifies this with Hamburg's position as a large city near the coast.

The climate is changing. Hamburg should get ready for this. The Greens want the city to think about the effects in every plan. This should become a fixed rule. It will cost a lot of money.

The Greens want to strengthen and raise the dikes along the Elbe. Protection against rising sea levels is to take priority over other uses and claims on land. The platform points to the storm surge of 1962.

The sea level is rising. The Greens want to make the dikes on the Elbe higher and stronger. Flood protection should come before other plans for the land. Other dikes in Hamburg should also be kept in good shape.

The Greens want to prepare Hamburg better for heavy rainfall. More areas where water can seep away or collect are to be created, and more roofs are to be greened. Additional rainwater treatment plants are meant to relieve lakes and rivers.

Sometimes it rains very hard. The Greens want more areas where the water has room. Green roofs should also catch rain. People should get tips on how to protect themselves.

The Greens want to preserve Hamburg's remaining peat soils and restore their function by raising water levels. This is meant to let them serve again as natural carbon stores. To this end, the city should be able to buy plots on peatland.

Peatlands are wet soils. They store a lot of CO2. The Greens want to keep the peatlands in Hamburg. For this, the water level there should rise again. The city should be able to buy peatland.

The Greens want to make the building sector climate-neutral in a technology-neutral way, looking at emissions across a building's whole life cycle. The city and its companies are to lead with climate-friendly materials and the Effizienzhaus 40 standard.

New buildings are to harm the climate less. The city itself is to build very energy-saving buildings. It is to build more often with wood and other climate-friendly materials. This also keeps heating costs low.

The Greens want more buildings to get energy retrofits without the costs falling one-sidedly on tenants. To that end, the federal modernization surcharge is to be lowered and support for landlords increased.

Old buildings are to be better insulated. Tenants should not pay more because of this. Landlords are to be allowed to add less of the cost to the rent. In return, landlords get more public funding.

The Greens want climate adaptation to be a fixed part of urban development. More green space, unsealed surfaces, and water features are meant to prepare Hamburg for flooding, heavy rain, and heat.

The weather is getting more extreme. There is more heat and more heavy rain. The Greens want to get the city ready for this. They want more green space and more water in the neighborhoods.

The Greens want major sporting events in Hamburg to be climate-neutral. Their carbon footprint is to be assessed in a uniform way, and public funding is to depend on it. Clubs are also to receive state money for energy-efficiency renovation of their facilities.

Big sports events should not harm the climate. Experts should check how much greenhouse gas an event causes. Only then should the city give money. Clubs get help to make their facilities use less energy.

The Greens want Hamburg, as a state, to sign climate protection contracts with energy-intensive industrial companies. The city would thereby offset the extra cost of climate-friendly production compared with conventional processes. This is meant to save large amounts of CO2 and kick-start industrial change.

Climate-friendly production often costs factories more. The Greens want Hamburg to pay the difference. The city signs contracts with the companies for this. That way less CO2 should be produced.

The Greens want to expand Hamburg's industry and support it in the shift to an economy without fossil fuels. The petroleum sector is to switch to fossil-free fuels, and small and mid-sized firms are to get advice. The platform names supplying industry with affordable fossil-free energy as the core task.

Hamburg's factories should be able to work without oil, gas and coal. The Greens want to help them do that. Small companies should get advice. Oil companies should make new, clean fuels.

The Greens want to press the federal government for a reform of grid fees and for several electricity price zones in Germany. In the platform's view, northern Germany is doubly disadvantaged: it pays higher grid fees and, because of the single price zone, does not benefit directly from its own new power generation. The party also calls for faster grid expansion.

A lot of electricity is produced in the north. Still, electricity is not cheaper there. The Greens want to change that. Germany should get different price zones for electricity. The costs for the power grid should be newly arranged.

The Greens want to use the planned Sustainable Energy Hub to turn the port into a European hub for hydrogen and fossil-free fuels. Suitable companies are to settle at the site of the former Moorburg coal plant and on former tank farm land.

The Greens want to build a big hydrogen site in the port. Hydrogen is an energy source without coal, oil or gas. A plant for this is being built at the old Moorburg coal power station. New companies should settle there.

The Greens want Hamburg to lead on climate-neutral shipping. This includes shore power, facilities for bunkering alternative fuels, lower port fees for low-emission ships and a city-owned fleet that sets an example.

Ships should do less harm to the climate. In the port, they should get electricity from land. They should also be able to fill up with new fuels there. Clean ships should pay lower port fees. The city's own ships should set an example.

The Greens want to create the conditions by 2030 for emission-free tourist shipping on the Elbe. They want to use regulation to push cruise companies to use shore power and introduce cleaner fuels.

Tour boats on the Elbe should no longer give off exhaust. By 2030, the Greens want to create the rules and facilities for that. Cruise ships should use electricity from land while in port. They should also use cleaner fuels.

The Greens want to set investment priorities: climate neutrality of the administration and city-owned companies, the mobility transition, the business location and social cohesion. An additional one billion euros over ten years is to go into energy retrofits of public buildings.

The Greens want to invest the city's money in a targeted way. Climate protection in city buildings and companies comes first. There is one billion euros extra over ten years for this. The city should not sell its buildings. Renovating matters more than new big projects.

The Left wants Hamburg to be climate neutral by 2035 at the latest. Climate protection is to be designed with social fairness in mind because, in the program's view, many people cannot bear further costs.

The Left wants Hamburg to be climate neutral by 2035. That means the city no longer harms the climate. Climate protection should stay affordable for poor people. The city should use less energy overall.

The Left wants the city to keep expanding into energy generation and grids and to take over the Hansewerk Natur heating networks in 2026. According to the program, consumers should not have to pay for private companies' profits.

The Left wants the city to produce more energy itself. The city should also own heating networks. A heating network brings heat to homes. People should not pay for the profits of private firms.

The SPD's long-term aim is a nearly emission-free port. Shore power for cruise and container ships is to be expanded, and by 2030 there should also be enough for inland vessels.

Ships in port often make power with diesel. The SPD wants them to get power from land. This is called shore power. The port should then produce almost no exhaust.

The SPD wants to designate a dedicated area in the port for terminals and facilities for renewable energy, the “Sustainable Energy Hub.” Imports of green hydrogen and ammonia are meant to supply industry with renewable energy.

The SPD wants a place in the port for new energy. Green hydrogen should arrive there. Hydrogen is a gas that provides energy. Industry should use this energy.

The SPD considers low energy prices the key condition for competitive industry. It wants to push at the federal level for an industrial electricity price that supports companies financially until green power becomes cheaper.

Industry needs a lot of electricity. Electricity is expensive. The SPD wants a lower power price for industry. The state should help until green power gets cheaper.

The SPD rejects tighter energy-efficiency requirements for buildings in Hamburg, at the federal level and in the EU. Instead, it wants a fast, broad switch to renewable heating, which in the party's view saves more CO2 per euro spent and keeps rents down.

The SPD does not want stricter rules for insulating buildings. It wants to change heating systems instead. Buildings should use renewable heat. The SPD says this saves more CO2 and costs less. Rents should then rise less.

The SPD wants to use the campaign "Jedes Haus kann Klimaschutz" (Every house can do climate protection) to inform private owners about suitable renovation paths and support. It also plans funding and advice for neighborhood heat networks and will push for reliable federal subsidies for rental housing.

Many homeowners are unsure about heating. The SPD wants to inform them better. Each owner should get a plan for their own house. Neighbors should get help for shared heat networks. The federal government should help pay for renovating rental homes.

The SPD wants Hamburg to be climate neutral by 2045 at the latest and to cut CO2 emissions by 70 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. It considers an earlier 2040 target feasible only under reliable conditions, and it rejects driving bans and industry moving abroad.

Hamburg should be climate neutral by 2045 at the latest. That means the city no longer harms the climate. By 2030 there should be much less CO2. The SPD does not want driving bans. Industry should stay in Hamburg.

The SPD wants to spend a combined three billion euros on climate protection in 2025 and 2026. The money is to go to the energy and transport transition, district heating, building renovation, charging infrastructure, and hydrogen, wind and solar power.

Hamburg should spend three billion euros on the climate in two years. This makes district heating cleaner. Buildings should need less energy. There should be more charging stations for electric cars. Wind, solar and hydrogen technology get support too.

The SPD wants to designate enough land for wind turbines by 2027 at the latest. Local residents are to share in the profits, for example through a citizens' energy law.

The SPD wants more wind turbines in Hamburg. By 2027 there should be enough land for them. People living nearby should get a share of the profit. A new law could make this happen.

The SPD plans a rooftop solar drive and a tenant electricity model meant to benefit all residents financially. It also wants a rollout campaign for smart meters.

The SPD wants more solar panels on roofs. Renters should also benefit from this power. More homes should get modern electricity meters. These meters help people use power better.

The SPD wants to connect at least one third of households to district heating by 2030 and replace the Wedel and Tiefstack power plants so that heating no longer relies on coal. Municipal heat planning is to provide clarity by 2026, and the heating transition is to be cushioned socially.

The SPD wants to connect more homes to district heating. By 2030 this should cover one third of households. The heat should be made without coal. By 2026 a plan should show which heating fits where. People with little money should get help.

The SPD wants to respond to the effects of global warming with a climate adaptation strategy. Plans include a heat action plan, a shift to a "sponge city" and stronger flood protection.

The climate is getting warmer. There is more heat and more heavy rain. The SPD wants to prepare Hamburg for this. It plans a heat plan and stronger dikes. Rainwater should be able to soak into the ground better.