What do the parties say on the environment and animal welfare?

The AfD commits to keeping livestock farming in Germany and wants to promote animal-appropriate housing systems. Animal transports are to last no more than six hours, and regional slaughterhouses are to be kept. Slaughter according to religious rites is to be allowed only with sufficient stunning.

The AfD wants to protect animals better. Animals should spend six hours at most in a transport. Local slaughterhouses should stay. Some religions have special rules for slaughter. This should only be allowed if the animal is stunned first.

The AfD wants to limit the wolf population by number and area and to designate wolf-free zones. It regards hunting as a form of nature conservation and holds to the principle of "forest with game." It also wants stronger action against introduced species.

The AfD wants to limit the number of wolves. Some areas should have no wolves at all. The party supports hunting. Foreign animals and plants should spread less.

The AfD wants forests to be managed professionally and sustainably and wants to promote wood as a building material and energy source. It rejects setting aside more forest land and clearing forest for wind turbines. Documentation requirements in forestry are to be reduced.

The AfD wants experts to care for and use the forest. Wood should be promoted for building and for heating. No more forest land should be taken out of use. No forest should be cut down for wind turbines.

The AfD wants water, waterworks, and pipelines to remain public property and rejects privatizing or liberalizing the water market. Germany and its federal states, rather than the EU, should be responsible for protecting bodies of water.

The AfD wants water to belong to the state and the towns. Private companies should not be able to buy the waterworks. Germany and its states should set the rules for protecting rivers and lakes, not the EU. There should be no new charges for taking water.

The AfD wants to review the rules on genetic engineering and create what it sees as a more pragmatic legal framework. It rejects blanket bans on substances, such as the PFAS group of chemicals, and instead calls for a risk assessment of each individual substance.

The AfD wants looser rules for genetic engineering. It wants to review the German law on it. The party also opposes bans on whole groups of substances. Experts should check each substance on its own.

The BSW wants to ban manufacturers from deliberately shortening the lifespan of their products. The expected lifespan of technical devices should be labeled, and repairs should become cheaper. The program views short-lived products as a burden on the environment and the climate.

Some devices are built to break quickly. The BSW wants to ban that. Makers should say how long a device will last. Repairs should cost less.

The BSW wants to end animal suffering in barns and slaughterhouses and limit transports of live animals to four hours at most. Animal testing should drop to a minimum. The party rejects genetic engineering in agriculture and patents on life.

The BSW wants to protect animals better. Live animals should travel four hours at most. There should be far fewer animal tests. The BSW rejects genetic engineering on farms.

The CDU and the CSU want to protect endangered species and their habitats, rewet peatlands, and keep seas and inland waters clean. They rely on cooperation with owners and users and on a circular economy.

The CDU and the CSU want to protect endangered animals and plants. Peatlands should become wet again, because they store CO2. Seas and rivers should stay clean. More waste should be recycled. Those who badly harm the environment should be punished.

The CDU and the CSU want to introduce nationwide mandatory insurance against natural hazard damage because extreme weather is increasing. This is meant to distribute the burden fairly in the interest of taxpayers. Coastal and flood protection are to take priority.

There are more and more storms and floods. So the CDU and the CSU want mandatory insurance. It pays for damage caused by nature. Then taxpayers do not have to cover the damage. Protection against floods should be especially important.

The CDU and the CSU reject a general ban on PFAS chemicals where the substances cannot currently be replaced. Instead, they want to assess risks case by case and invest in research on substitutes.

PFAS are chemicals that stay in the environment for a very long time. The CDU and the CSU do not want to ban all of them. Some of these substances cannot be replaced today. The parties want to check each risk on its own. Researchers should find substitutes.

The CDU and the CSU want to actively manage the wolf population and allow wolves to be hunted, with rules varying by region. To do so, the wolf's protected status would be changed. The stated goal is to better protect grazing animals.

Wolves sometimes kill sheep and other animals in the fields. So the CDU and the CSU want to allow hunting of wolves. The rules can differ from region to region. To do this, they want to change how wolves are protected.

The FDP wants species protection to focus on whole populations and habitats rather than individual animals, and wants payments to replace compensation land for construction projects. The aim is faster projects and larger-scale conservation measures.

The FDP wants to change nature protection. The whole species should be protected, not each single animal. Builders should pay money instead of finding replacement land. Experts use the money for big nature projects.

The FDP wants to manage wolf and cormorant populations through hunting and sees hunting as part of species protection. In forestry, it rejects new management rules and interference with property.

The FDP wants hunters to be allowed to hunt wolves and cormorants. This should keep their numbers down. Forest owners should not face new rules. Wood should count as climate-neutral.

The Free Voters want to reduce the wolf population and allow wolves to be hunted under uniform nationwide rules. They justify this with a growing number of attacks on grazing animals. Damage caused by wolves, bears, or lynx should be compensated without any cap.

The Free Voters want fewer wolves in Germany. Hunters should be allowed to hunt wolves under the same rules everywhere. The party says wolves kill more and more sheep and cattle. Farmers should get the full damage paid back.

The Free Voters reject the planned revision of the Federal Forest Act because they see too many detailed rules in it. The states should keep leeway for their own forest management. The existing hunting system with hunting cooperatives and hunting districts should stay unchanged.

There are plans for a new law on forests. The Free Voters are against it. They think the law has too many rules. The rules for hunting should also stay as they are today.

The Free Voters want to reduce noise and air pollution near airports, roads and rail lines. Driving bans are to be avoided through innovation, and enforcing existing rules is to take priority over tougher laws.

Near roads, rail lines and airports it is often loud and the air is bad. The Free Voters want to change that. But they want to avoid driving bans. The state should first check whether everyone follows today's rules.

The Free Voters want effective groundwater protection and want the water supply to stay in public hands. Wastewater treatment plants that cover their own energy needs would receive support.

Clean drinking water matters to everyone. The Free Voters want to protect groundwater. Private companies should not take over the water supply. Treatment plants should make their own power.

The Free Voters call for a federal funding program for basins that hold back rainwater. They also want cities to be planned with more green space and less land use so that they heat up less.

The Free Voters want federal money for rain basins. These basins collect rainwater. This should mean fewer floods. Cities should get more green areas. Then they stay cooler in summer.

The Free Voters want to ban microplastics in cosmetics, food and water and to promote sustainable alternatives. They also want to work nationally and internationally to protect the seas.

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic. The Free Voters want to ban them. This applies to cosmetics, food and water. The party also wants to protect the seas better.

The Free Voters want to quickly implement the right to repair proposed by the EU Commission and make products easier to recycle. Plastic waste, electronic scrap and scrap cars should no longer be exported but processed within Europe.

The Free Voters want a right to repair. Broken devices should be easier to fix. A label should show how well that works. Plastic waste and old devices should stay in Europe.

The Free Voters aim for a Germany without animal testing and want to further develop cell cultures as a substitute. They also want to protect native nature and biodiversity.

The Free Voters want no more tests on animals. Researchers should work with cells in the lab instead. The party also wants to protect animals and plants in Germany.

The Greens want to halve the use of newly extracted raw materials in the long run and build a circular economy. This is meant to secure supply and, according to the program, protect the climate and species and create new jobs.

The Greens want to use far fewer new raw materials. Things should last longer and be repaired. People who get an electrical device repaired should get money from the state. Cities should be allowed to tax packaging.

The Greens want to write the protection of climate and nature into the Grundgesetz (Basic Law, Germany's constitution). The Aktionsprogramm Natürlicher Klimaschutz (action program for natural climate protection) would continue permanently and receive more money after 2028.

The Greens want to protect the climate and nature better. This protection should be in the constitution. The constitution is the most important law in Germany. There should also be more money for forests and moors.

The Greens want to effectively protect thirty percent of land and sea area by 2030 and pass a biodiversity law to do so. Land for restoring nature would be secured by law.

The Greens want to protect more nature. By 2030, almost one third of the area should be protected. A new law should protect the variety of animals and plants. Rivers, forests and moors should become more natural again.

The Greens oppose placing the wolf and other protected species under hunting law. In problematic individual cases, however, shooting should become faster and simpler. EU nature conservation law is to be preserved.

The wolf is a protected animal. The Greens do not want to open it to hunting. If a wolf causes problems, shooting it should be allowed more quickly. Animal owners should easily get money for damage.

The Greens want to update the Bundeswaldgesetz (Federal Forest Act) so that forests develop as naturally as possible into resilient mixed forests. The platform cites damage from the climate crisis, conifer plantations, drought and pests.

Many forests are in bad shape. The Greens want a new forest law. It should support forests with many kinds of trees. Such forests cope better with heat and drought.

The Greens want to make the World Health Organization's recommendations on air and noise the legal standard. A new soil protection law would reduce pollutants and pesticides in the soil, including giving up glyphosate and neonicotinoids entirely.

The Greens want clean air and less noise. The rules of the World Health Organization should apply. A new law should protect the soil. Very harmful plant poisons should go away completely.

The Greens want to reduce packaging waste and make plastics producers bear more of the environmental costs. From 2045 at the latest, there should be no avoidable packaging waste. Internationally, the party seeks a plastics treaty with binding rules.

The Greens want less waste from packaging. Companies that make plastic should pay more for harm to nature. From 2045, there should be no needless packaging waste. There should also be less plastic worldwide.

The Greens want to curb private fireworks and consider a year-round ban on sales for private use appropriate. Municipalities should be able to set no-fireworks zones on a secure legal footing. The platform points to burdens on municipalities, people, animals and the environment, as well as misuse.

The Greens want fewer private fireworks. Stores should not sell them to private people all year. Cities should be able to ban fireworks in certain places. This should protect people, animals and nature.

The Greens want to gradually end the use of so-called forever chemicals, starting where they can be replaced or are not critical. Reform of the EU chemicals regulation REACH should move faster without lowering the level of protection.

Some chemicals never break down. People call them forever chemicals. The Greens want to stop using them step by step. Where a replacement exists, this should happen fast.

The Greens want producers of substances hazardous to water to pay for the consequences of water pollution. The National Water Strategy and the EU Water Framework Directive are to be implemented with sufficient money and staff.

The Greens want clean water. Whoever pollutes water should pay for the harm. Dangerous substances should no longer get into water. Old munitions should be taken out of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

The Greens want stronger protection for the oceans and real refuges for fish and marine mammals in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. At least ten percent of Germany's marine area is to remain entirely unused so that nature can recover there.

The Greens want to protect the seas better. In part of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, nobody should disturb nature. Fish and other animals can recover there. Fishing should also do less harm to nature.

The Greens want stricter animal welfare rules in Germany, Europe, and internationally. Animal transports are to last no more than four hours across Europe and be banned out of Europe; in addition, harmful breeding is to end and animal welfare groups are to be able to sue.

The Greens want to protect animals better. Animals should spend four hours at most in a transport truck. Transports out of Europe should be banned. Animal welfare groups should be able to go to court for animals. Wild animals should no longer be in circuses.

The Greens want to reduce land consumption with new tools such as tradable land-use certificates or a levy on building land. At the same time, more urban development funding should make city and town centers livelier.

More and more land in Germany is built on. The Greens want to slow this down. They want new rules for that. They also want nicer city and village centers. More money should go to this.

The Left wants to ban throwing away edible food. By 2030, the amount of food waste is to be cut in half.

The Left wants to ban throwing good food in the trash. Stores should donate the food or give it away. By 2030 there should be only half as much food waste.

The Left wants a resource protection act and to rule out mining in protected areas and the deep sea. Local people are to share in mining projects and be able to reject them. A stricter supply chain law is meant to prevent exploitation in the Global South.

The Left wants a law to protect raw materials. There should be no mining in protected areas or the deep sea. Local people should be allowed to say no. Companies should be liable if their suppliers harm people or nature.

The Left wants to make products longer-lasting and repairable, recycle more and cut waste. Single-use packaging is to be largely banned, waste exports from the EU prohibited and waste disposal returned to public ownership.

Products should last longer and be repairable. There should be more recycling and less waste. Much single-use packaging should be banned. Waste should no longer leave the EU for other countries. Waste collection should be public again.

The Left wants to spend twice as much on nature-based climate protection, expand protected areas and restore damaged ecosystems. Nature would get rights of its own, water would stay in public hands, and the oceans would be better protected.

The Left wants twice as much money to protect nature. More land should be wilderness. People should be able to go to court on behalf of nature. Water should belong to everyone. The oceans should be better protected.

The Left wants to overhaul the Animal Welfare Act, enforce it more strictly and add tougher penalties. The party sees animals as sentient beings whose protection should take priority over profit. A phaseout of animal testing and several bans are also planned.

Animals should be better protected. People who abuse animals should be punished harder. One federal official should focus only on animal welfare. Animal testing should end step by step. Fur and wild animals in circuses should be banned.

The ÖDP wants to cut the use of energy and raw materials and build a circular economy. Durable, repairable products made from renewable raw materials would get priority, and fossil-based materials would be replaced.

The ÖDP wants less waste and less consumption. Products should last long and be easy to repair. Materials should be used again and again. This is called a circular economy.

The ÖDP wants to bring the use of new land for housing and transport down to net zero within ten years and to expand nature reserves. Bavaria's species protection rules from the "Rettet die Bienen" (Save the Bees) petition would apply nationwide.

The ÖDP wants better protection for soil, animals and plants. In ten years, no new land should be built over. There should be more nature reserves. Species protection rules from Bavaria should apply in all of Germany.

The ÖDP wants the water supply to remain public and not be privatized. Groundwater would be protected through less paving, more infiltration and stricter rules on withdrawals and industrial sites.

The ÖDP wants to protect water. The water supply should belong to the state and the towns. Companies should not be able to buy it. Rainwater should be able to seep into the ground.

The ÖDP wants to give animal welfare organizations the right to sue at federal and state level and to appoint independent animal welfare officers with binding powers. It also calls for a plan to phase out animal testing and for several bans.

The ÖDP wants to protect animals better. Animal welfare groups should be able to go to court for animals. There should be animal welfare officers who check on animal keepers. Animal testing should end under a plan. Fur farming and wild animals in circuses should be banned.

The PdF wants to advance the shift to an economy that reuses raw materials and avoids waste. This includes a comprehensive right to repair, recycling quotas, minimum product lifespans and tax advantages for resource-saving businesses.

The PdF wants less to be thrown away. Raw materials should be used longer. This is called a circular economy. Customers should be able to get devices repaired. Manufacturers should offer spare parts at fair prices.

The PdF wants to link protected areas through green corridors and reduce pesticide use. Farmers are to receive incentives for biodiversity-friendly practices, and cities are to run their own programs for more nature.

Many animals and plants are under threat. The PdF wants to connect protected areas with each other. Farmers should use fewer chemicals against pests. Cities should plant wildflower meadows.

The PdF wants to support greening of roofs and facades with government grants, without rents going up. Cities are also to create connected green spaces to improve air quality, the local climate and biodiversity.

The PdF wants more plants in cities. The state should give money for green roofs and walls. Rents should not go up because of this. Cities should create larger green areas.

The PdF wants to preserve forests, reforest new areas, and promote tree species that cope better with climate change. The platform justifies this with the role of forests as carbon stores and their importance for water balance and biodiversity.

The PdF wants to protect forests. New trees should be planted. These trees should cope well with heat and dry weather. Forests store the gas CO₂ and are home to many animals.

The PdF wants to phase out environmentally harmful fishing methods such as bottom trawling in marine protected areas by 2030 at the latest. Strict monitoring is meant to ensure that fishing rules are followed.

The PdF wants to protect the seas. Some nets are dragged along the sea floor. That harms nature. In protected areas, these nets should be banned by 2030. The state should check fishing strictly.

The PdF wants to end practices such as tethering after binding transition periods and give financial support to farms with animal-friendly housing. An animal welfare label on products is meant to create transparency.

The PdF wants farm animals to live better. Bad ways of keeping animals should end after a fixed deadline. Farms that treat animals well should get money. Products should show how the animals lived.

The PdF wants to manage wildlife populations through targeted hunting to curb disease, overpopulation, and invasive species. At the same time, zoos and circuses are to face stricter rules on keeping wild animals.

The PdF wants hunters to hunt wild animals in a targeted way. This should keep diseases from spreading. There should also not be too many animals. Zoos and circuses should follow stricter rules. Animals there should live close to nature.

The PdF wants a legal ban on breeding that serves only appearance and damages the animals' health. The pet trade is to be monitored more strictly and made fully traceable.

Some animals are bred only to look a certain way. This makes them sick. The PdF wants to ban that. The pet trade should be checked strictly. People should always know where an animal comes from.

The PdF wants to push back animal testing through stricter laws and replace it entirely in the long run. To that end it calls for major investment in animal-free research methods.

The PdF wants fewer tests on animals. Later there should be none at all. The state should spend a lot of money on other methods. Examples are computer models or tests with human cells.

The PdF wants to prohibit the fur trade entirely because, in its view, it involves great animal suffering. In the leather industry, the whole animal should be used to avoid waste.

The PdF wants to ban the trade in fur. It says animals suffer a lot for fur. For leather, the whole animal should be used. That way less is wasted.

The PdF wants to base catch quotas on scientific data and set up protected areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea to prevent overfishing. Coastal fishers would receive financial help, mainly for switching to gentler fishing methods.

There are fewer and fewer fish in the seas. The PdF wants to set catch limits based on science. The North Sea and Baltic Sea should get protected areas. Coastal fishers should get money.

The SPD wants to protect nature and ecosystems in line with European and international obligations. To do so, existing protected areas are to become more effective and ecologically valuable land is to be linked together.

The SPD wants to protect nature better. Protected areas should work better. Valuable land should be connected. Money should go to forests, bogs and green spaces in cities. In the sea, there should be areas where animals are left in peace.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to permanently exempt dogs from shelters or certified animal welfare groups from the dog tax. Registration, microchipping, and liability insurance would become mandatory for all dogs. All owners would have to pass a nationwide test.

There should be no dog tax for dogs from animal shelters. All dogs should get a chip and be registered. Owners need insurance. All owners should take a test.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban bottom trawling, strictly protect ten percent of marine areas and end offshore oil and gas extraction. In the long run it aims to end fishing; until then fleets should shrink and inspections increase.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect the seas better. Nets that drag along the sea floor should be banned. No one should drill for oil and gas at sea anymore. There should be fewer fishing boats.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect and restore natural habitats such as forests, peatlands and river landscapes. Displaced native species are to be reintroduced, wolves and foxes protected, and pesticides that harm biodiversity gradually phased out.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect nature. Forests, peatlands and rivers should become more natural again. Animals that disappeared should come back. Wolves and foxes should be protected. Harmful pesticides should go away step by step.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban exports of plastic waste and reduce plastic packaging in retail. Composite packaging that is hard to recycle and plastic packaging without recycled content are to be banned immediately. It also supports a nationwide packaging tax.

The Tierschutzpartei wants less plastic waste. Germany should stop sending plastic waste abroad. Some kinds of packaging should be banned. There should be a tax on packaging. Stores that sell without packaging should get support.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban large-scale logging and protect old-growth and primeval forests. Forestry is to become ecological and close to nature. Instead of conventional reforestation, the platform relies on forests regenerating on their own.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect forests. Cutting down large areas of forest should be banned. Old forests should stay. Forests should grow back by themselves. No pesticides or chemical fertilizer should be used in forests.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to significantly enlarge the area of nature reserves and prohibit construction, resource extraction and intensive farming there. A state fund is to pay for and coordinate projects that restore ecosystems.

The Tierschutzpartei wants more nature reserves. Nobody should build or mine there. Intensive farming should also be banned there. The state should set up a fund. The money should help restore damaged nature.

The Tierschutzpartei considers the current Animal Welfare Act incomplete and poorly enforced. It wants more staff for veterinary offices, specialized prosecutors, much tougher penalties and a right for animal welfare organizations to sue.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a stricter animal welfare law. Offices should check businesses more often and without warning. People who abuse animals should be punished harder. Animal welfare groups should be allowed to sue. Inspection reports should be public.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to completely ban the sale and use of fireworks by private individuals. It cites the suffering of wild animals and pets, environmental damage and dangers to people. Public low-noise fireworks displays are to remain allowed for a transition period.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban private fireworks. Nobody should buy or set off firecrackers anymore. The party says fireworks scare animals and harm the environment. Quiet public fireworks should still be allowed. Later, drone or laser shows should replace them.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban online sales of animals and the trade in wild animals. All pets would be registered and identified, and courses would be mandatory before getting one. The aim is to prevent poor care, abandonment and neglect.

Nobody would be allowed to sell animals online. Every pet would be registered and marked. People would take a course before getting a pet. This should mean fewer abandoned animals.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a nationwide duty to neuter and identify free-roaming cats. Stray cats, city pigeons and other homeless animals would be cared for with public money.

Cats that roam freely would have to be neutered. This would be the rule in all of Germany. That way there are fewer stray cats. The state would also pay for city pigeons and homeless animals.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to secure permanent funding for animal shelters and introduce national quality standards for them. A state fund would pay for treating animals from shelters and low-income households. Incentives would ensure enough veterinary practices in rural areas.

Animal shelters would get lasting money from the state. The same rules would apply to all shelters. A fund would pay the vet for poor pet owners. There should be enough vets in the countryside too.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to abolish hunting as a pastime and, in the long run, end all hunting. It would be replaced by science-based wildlife management without killing. The platform considers hunting ethically and ecologically indefensible.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban hunting as a hobby. Later there would be no hunting at all. Experts would manage wild animal numbers in other ways. No animal should die in the process.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban the shooting of protected species such as wolves and beavers without exception. Habitats would be preserved through stricter rules for construction and clearing and through wildlife corridors. Poaching would be punished more severely.

Nobody would be allowed to hunt wolves, beavers or birds of prey. The state would stop the shooting of wolves at once. Wild animals would get safe routes to roam. People who hunt illegally would face tougher penalties.

The Tierschutzpartei demands a complete ban on animal testing in all fields and wants to write it into the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. Importing and selling products tested on animals would also be prohibited. The platform considers animal experiments ethically indefensible and scientifically questionable.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban all experiments on animals. The ban would be written into the constitution. Products tested on animals could no longer be sold. The party says there are better methods without animals.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to put far more money into research methods without animals and withdraw all public funding from research on animals. A neutral agency would oversee the transition. On the committees that decide on experiment applications, animal welfare and science would have equal representation.

Research without animals would get much more money. Experiments on animals would get no more state money. A new agency would check everything. Animal advocates would have the same say as researchers on applications.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to limit live animal transport to a maximum of two hours immediately and ban exports to non-EU countries without adequate animal welfare. In the long term, long-distance exports would end entirely. The platform cites the animals' suffering from heat, cold, crowding, hunger and thirst.

Animals would be transported for two hours at most. Germany would not send live animals to countries without animal protection. Cameras would watch the transports. Later there would be no long transports at all.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban animals in circuses and shows entirely because, in its view, they cannot be kept appropriately there. Zoos and aquariums without an essential role in species conservation would close in the long term.

There would be no more animals in circuses and shows. The party says animals cannot live well there. Many zoos would close later. Only zoos that protect endangered species would stay.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to regulate animal breeding strictly and ban Qualzucht (breeding that causes suffering) without exception. This means breeding for looks in ways that damage the animals' health. Crosses between wild and domestic animals and imports of bred animals would also be stopped.

Some animals are bred in ways that make them sick. The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban this completely. Nobody would be allowed to breed mixes of wolf and dog. Bred animals from other countries could not be brought in.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to permanently close fur farms in Germany and generally ban breeding animals for fur. Fur from countries with fur farms could be neither imported nor traded. The platform cites animal suffering, environmental damage from chemicals and the availability of animal-free alternatives.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to close all fur farms. Nobody would be allowed to breed animals for fur. Fur from countries with fur farms could no longer be sold. The party says the animals suffer greatly.

Volt wants to secure the quantity and quality of water because, in the program's view, climate change, pollution and rising demand are putting the resource under pressure. Public water supply is to take priority over other uses, and supply and wastewater networks are to be renewed.

Volt wants to protect water. Water for people should come first. Other users come after that. The state should spend more money on pipes and wastewater. Fewer harmful substances should get into the water.

Volt wants to strengthen forests and peatlands as natural carbon sinks and habitats. At least one billion trees are to be planted by 2035, clear-cutting is to be banned, and the rewetting of peatlands greatly expanded.

Volt wants to protect forests and peatlands. They store the climate gas CO₂. One billion new trees should grow by 2035. Nobody should be allowed to cut down whole areas of forest at once. Dry peatlands should become wet again.

Volt wants to expand reuse and recycling to conserve raw materials and cut waste. To this end, deposit, lending and reusable systems are to grow, quotas are to rise, and waste law is to be overhauled.

Volt wants less waste. There should be more deposit and reusable systems. More old products should be collected and recycled. For example, more old batteries should be returned. Repairing things and buying used goods should pay off more.

Volt wants to tighten animal protection outside agriculture. Plans include new duties for pet owners, a long-term phase-out of animal testing, stronger enforcement, and the transformation of zoos.

Volt wants to protect animals better. Dogs and cats should get a chip. People who keep an animal should prove their knowledge. Animal testing should become less and later end completely. Zoos should no longer show wild animals.