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

The AfD wants to give priority to maintaining parks and green spaces and to equip the districts better for this task. Every felled tree is to be replaced by a new one, and the city's forests are to be preserved for the long term.

The AfD wants better care for parks and green spaces. The districts should get more money and staff for this. A new tree should be planted for every tree cut down. Berlin's forests should also be kept.

The AfD wants to cut land consumption and protect near-natural areas. Green spaces, forests and water areas would no longer be built on, and some paved ground would be opened up again.

The AfD wants less ground to be built over. No building on green spaces, in forests or on water areas. Some paved ground should be opened again. Then rainwater can soak into the soil.

The AfD wants stronger protection for drinking water and waterways and a renewal of water infrastructure. This includes modernized treatment, sewage plants with a fourth purification stage and separate sewers for rainwater and wastewater.

The AfD wants to protect Berlin's water better. Sewage plants should remove more harmful substances. Rain and wastewater should flow in separate pipes. Old pipes should be replaced step by step.

The AfD wants to detect non-native animal and plant species early and contain their populations in order to protect native species. It also wants to strengthen volunteer monitoring of Berlin's urban nature.

Some animals and plants do not come from Berlin. They push out native species. The AfD wants to push these species back. More experts should work on this. Volunteers should also find it easier to count animals and plants.

The AfD wants to upgrade animal welfare as a public responsibility. It calls for a second, state-owned animal shelter, more staff in the veterinary offices and an end to the dog tax.

The AfD wants to do more for animal welfare. Berlin should get a second animal shelter. The offices for animal health should get more staff. The dog tax should be dropped.

The CDU wants to keep taking a hard line against illegally dumped trash, pointing to the already tougher schedule of fines. It also wants to examine whether mobile video surveillance and artificial intelligence can identify littering hotspots faster.

People who dump trash should pay high fines. The fines are already higher. The CDU now wants to look at cameras. AI should help too. This should find trash spots faster.

The CDU wants to modernize waste disposal in public spaces: by 2030 Berlin should have about 30,000 litter bins, underground containers are to be expanded, and bulky waste collection improved. This is also meant to deprive rats of food.

There should be more trash cans. About 30,000 by 2030. Some bins should be under the ground. Bulky trash should be easier to pick up. Then rats find less food.

The CDU wants to limit the number of city pigeons, especially at shopping centers, train stations and busy places, in a way consistent with animal welfare. It relies on managed pigeon lofts, feeding bans and structural deterrents.

There should be fewer pigeons in the city. Mostly at train stations and malls. The birds should not be harmed. There should be managed pigeon houses. Feeding them should be banned.

The CDU wants to capture, store and use more rainwater and secure the long-term water supply. This includes cooperation with Brandenburg and Saxony, a Berlin water summit and cleaner waterways up to bathing water quality.

Berlin should store rainwater better. This is called a sponge city. The water supply should stay safe. Rivers and lakes should get cleaner. One day people should be able to swim there.

The CDU wants to abolish Berlin's list of dangerous dog breeds. Whether a dog is dangerous should instead be judged case by case based on its behavior, since in the party's view breed categories serve neither animal welfare nor safety.

Today some dog breeds count as dangerous. This list should go. An office should check each dog on its own. What counts is how the dog behaves. Owners should know about dogs.

The CDU wants to act against the illegal pet trade, which it says causes great animal suffering. Selling pets in public squares is to be banned and online platforms more closely monitored.

Some people sell pets illegally. The animals often suffer. Selling pets in public places should be banned. Websites should be checked more. Penalties should be higher.

The CDU wants to stop invasive non-native animal and plant species from spreading further in Berlin. The goal is to protect native ecosystems and biodiversity.

Some animals and plants are not from here. They spread fast and harm nature. They are called invasive species. The CDU wants to slow their spread in Berlin. This should protect local nature.

The Greens want to bring quick relief to neighborhoods that suffer most from heat. The focus is on areas with many low-income and disadvantaged households, since the platform sees environmental policy as social policy too. Berlin's Climate Adaptation Act is to be implemented ambitiously and together with the Mobility Act.

The Greens want to protect people better from heat. This matters most in areas with little green space. People with little money often live there. There should be more shade and more drinking fountains. On hot days, cool public buildings should be open.

The Greens want to launch a program to remove paved surfaces so that, on balance, no additional land is sealed as soon as possible. The city is to become greener especially where there is little greenery today. One million new trees are to be planted, with their upkeep funded for the long term.

The Greens want to remove concrete and asphalt from many areas. This is called unsealing. Plants should grow there. Berlin should get one million new trees. There should be enough money to care for the trees.

The Greens want rainwater to be stored and allowed to seep into the ground within the city instead of being drained away. This is meant to cool the city, replenish groundwater, water urban greenery and protect waterways. The Berliner Regenwasseragentur (Berlin Rainwater Agency) is to be expanded and given more funding for this.

The Greens want rainwater to stay in the city. It should seep into the ground and not flow into the sewers. This cools the city and helps plants. There should be green roofs and rain barrels for this. The rainwater agency should get more money.

The Greens want to permanently secure existing green spaces, create new ones and preserve cold-air corridors. Tempelhofer Feld is to remain protected, and allotment gardens are to be kept and opened up more to the general public. Borough offices are to receive earmarked funds for the upkeep of greenery and trees.

The Greens want to protect parks and green spaces in Berlin. Tempelhofer Feld should stay open. Allotment gardens should stay too. The boroughs should get more money for upkeep. Trees should be better protected.

The Greens want to secure Berlin's forests through state law and expand the forested area. The forests are to become near-natural mixed woodlands that cope better with heat and drought and hold more water.

The Greens want to protect the forests in Berlin. A law should make sure the forests stay. There should also be more forest. The forest should have many kinds of trees. Then it can handle heat and dry weather better.

The Greens want to carry out Berlin's Biodiversity Strategy 2030+ and link habitats into a connected network of biotopes. In the long run, no pesticides should be used in Berlin, starting with land owned by the state.

Many animals and plants live in Berlin. The Greens want to protect their living spaces and connect them. There should be more flower meadows and hedges. Pesticides are chemicals that kill pests. The Greens want Berlin to stop using them, first on land the state owns.

The Greens want to cut water use in Berlin to keep the drinking water supply secure during the climate crisis. To that end, the "Masterplan Wasser" (water master plan) is to become binding, and groundwater extraction is to be regulated more tightly.

The Greens say Berlin must use water carefully. Otherwise drinking water could run short. People and companies who pump groundwater should face stricter rules. Rainwater should be used more often for watering. Golf courses should only get rainwater.

The Greens want to make Berlin's rivers, lakes and small water bodies more natural and implement the EU Water Framework Directive. Polluted rainwater, microplastics and PFAS are to be kept out of the water, and the city's water utility would be allowed to reinvest its own profits.

The Greens want cleaner rivers and lakes in Berlin. The banks should become greener and more natural. Dirty rainwater should no longer flow into rivers without a filter. The Greens also want to ban PFAS. These are chemicals that almost never break down.

The Greens want to lift the blanket swimming ban so that people can swim in the Spree river. To make that possible, water quality monitoring would be extended across the whole city.

Today, swimming in the Spree river is not allowed. The Greens want to end this ban. The city should check everywhere how clean the water is. Then people can cool off downtown in summer.

The Greens want to cut particulate and nitrogen oxide pollution across Berlin, guided by WHO air quality guidelines. The core measure is a zone where, step by step, only emission-free vehicles would be allowed.

The Greens want cleaner air in Berlin. For this, there should be a special zone. Step by step, only vehicles without exhaust should drive there. Construction sites and wood heaters should also make less dust.

The Greens call for a ban on selling fireworks and setting off firecrackers that applies all year and everywhere. They justify this with the protection of people, animals and the environment.

The Greens want to ban private fireworks. The ban should apply all year and everywhere. Selling fireworks should also be banned. On New Year's Eve, there should be light shows instead.

The Greens want streets and green spaces cleaned more often and want the city sanitation service BSR to take over all parks and playgrounds. Every household would be able to get rid of bulky waste for free once a year.

The Greens want a clean Berlin. The city cleaning service should clean all parks and playgrounds. Every household should be able to hand in bulky waste for free once a year. Bulky waste means large old things like furniture.

The Greens want to introduce a tax on single-use packaging, dishes and cutlery to make reusable options more attractive. Repair, swapping and reuse would be promoted, and separate collection of organic waste would become mandatory.

The Greens want less trash in Berlin. There should be a tax on throwaway packaging. Then reusable items pay off more. There should be more places to repair and swap things. Everyone should have to collect food and garden waste separately.

The Greens want to work closely with Brandenburg and neighboring municipalities on protecting water, nature and the climate. Two parks in the Barnim area are to become UNESCO biosphere reserves, and Berlin's Stadtgüter (city-owned estates) are to serve as a model for environmentally friendly land use.

Berlin and Brandenburg should protect the environment together. This applies to drinking water and to the Spree and Havel rivers, for example. Two parks in the Barnim area should get special protection. Berlin owns farm estates in Brandenburg. Farming there should be gentle on the environment.

The Greens want to anchor the office of an independent state animal welfare commissioner in law and permanently fund the animal shelter, the pet food bank and wildlife stations. The breed list for dogs would be dropped and replaced by a mandatory dog handler's license.

The Greens want to protect animals in Berlin better. There should be an independent commissioner for animal welfare. The animal shelter should get enough money for the long term. The list of dangerous dog breeds should go away. Instead, all dog owners should have to get a dog license.

The Greens want to expand protection for wildlife, urban animals and bees in Berlin. They plan a central coordination office for wildlife, revised hunting and nature conservation laws, and a return to closed seasons for raccoons and nutrias.

The Greens want to protect wild animals in Berlin better. A new office will take care of wildlife. Raccoons and nutrias will get closed seasons again. In a closed season, nobody may hunt these animals. Bees will also get more protection.

The Greens want to expand research, teaching and application without animal testing in Berlin. The goal is to phase out animal experiments in favor of other methods, and students are to have a right to learn such methods.

The Greens want fewer animal tests in research. Other methods will replace the tests step by step. Students will be allowed to learn these methods. A new center will be built for this.

The Greens want less food to be thrown away at every stage from production to consumption. They advocate legalizing dumpster diving and requiring retailers to sell food close to its expiration date at a discount or donate it.

The Greens want less food to end up in the trash. Dumpster diving should be legal. That means people take thrown-away food from store trash bins. Stores should sell food that is almost expired for less or donate it.

The Greens want a law ensuring that every residential area has accessible, connected and near-natural green spaces. Green infrastructure is to carry the same weight in urban planning as other planning tools. Residents are also to have more say in shaping their neighborhoods.

The Greens want a law on green spaces. Every residential area should have parks and greenery nearby. Crowded neighborhoods should get more plants and cooling. People in the neighborhood should be able to help decide.

The Greens reject any construction on Tempelhofer Feld and regard the referendum on it as binding. The field is to remain a place for recreation, sports, culture, nature and the urban climate. The airport building is to become a site for the cultural and creative industries.

The Greens want to keep Tempelhofer Feld open. Nobody should build there. Berliners decided this in a public vote. The old airport building should become a place for culture.

The Left wants to fundamentally revise the 1994 land-use plan in the next legislative term with broad public participation, aligning it with climate protection, climate adaptation and securing housing. From 2030 at the latest, no additional land on balance would be paved over. Tempelhofer Feld would be designated as green space.

Berlin has a plan for how its land is used. It dates from 1994. The Left wants to redo it. People should have a say. From 2030, Berlin should not pave over any more land overall. Tempelhofer Feld should stay a green space.

The Left wants to keep Tempelhofer Feld entirely free of buildings and preserve the law passed by referendum. It rejects construction and privatization. It bases this on the field's importance for recreation, the urban climate, and nature.

Tempelhofer Feld is a large open space in Berlin. The Left wants no building there. Berliners decided this in a public vote. That law should stay. The field is good for relaxing, for the air, and for animals and plants.

The Left wants a citywide open-space strategy for Berlin so that parks, playgrounds and good environmental quality are within reach regardless of income. Socially disadvantaged areas are to benefit most, because the platform says environmental burdens are often higher there.

The Left wants more parks and playgrounds close to homes. Everyone should be able to use them, rich or poor. Poorer neighborhoods should get better green space first. There should be one plan for the whole city.

The Left wants to generally permit swimming in the Spree and Havel rivers and make the banks of Berlin's waters publicly accessible. The platform provides for land purchases and, if necessary, expropriations to achieve this.

The Left wants people to be allowed to swim in the Spree and the Havel. The riverbanks should be open to everyone. Berlin should buy land for this. If needed, the city should also take land from owners by law.

The Left wants to protect parks, forests, cemeteries, allotment gardens, and bodies of water from development and create additional natural areas. Especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods, noise, poor air, and heat would be reduced and more greenery added.

The Left wants to protect parks, forests, and garden plots. Nobody should be allowed to build there. The city should have more nature. Poorer neighborhoods in particular should get more green space.

The Left regards soil as a common good and wants to ensure that, on balance, no additional land is sealed from 2030 on. Any new sealing would have to be offset by unsealing an equal area within Berlin.

Sealed means the ground is covered with concrete or asphalt. The Left wants to balance this out by 2030. Anyone who covers ground must uncover the same amount elsewhere in Berlin. Bogs should become wet again.

The Left wants to secure the quality of Berlin's water for the long term and give drinking water supply priority in all administrative decisions. Private wells and commercial water extraction would have to be reported, and companies would pay for surface water they withdraw.

The Left wants to protect Berlin's drinking water. Drinking water should always come first. People who have a well should report it. Companies should pay for water from rivers and lakes.

The Left wants to rebuild Berlin on the sponge city principle, where rainwater seeps away and is stored on site instead of flowing into the sewers. This is also meant to keep wastewater out of the Spree and other waters.

A sponge city stores rain like a sponge. The water should soak into the ground. Then less dirty water flows into the Spree river. The Left wants to rebuild Berlin this way.

The Left wants to protect allotment gardens and community gardens by law and to preserve and expand them permanently through land-use planning. The platform argues that these gardens are places for people of all generations to meet and learn and that they contribute to local food production.

The Left wants to protect small garden plots in Berlin. A law should do this. Community gardens should stay too. There should even be more of them.

The Left wants to implement the clean air plan immediately and keep it up to date. Air pollution and traffic noise are to be reduced through less car traffic, lower speeds and more trees, among other things; at BER airport the night flight ban is to be extended.

The Left wants cleaner air and less noise in Berlin. Fewer cars should be on the road. Cars should also drive more slowly. At BER airport, planes should stay on the ground longer at night. The party also wants a ban on fireworks.

The Left wants to expand the circular economy in Berlin, following the order of prevent, reuse, recycle, dispose. Repair, lending, secondhand goods and reusable packaging are to be promoted, recycling rates raised and organic waste processing expanded.

The Left wants less trash in Berlin. Broken things should be repaired more often. The city will keep paying part of the cost. Every district should get a store for used goods. Restaurants should use more reusable packaging.

To curb illegal dumping, the Left wants to expand waste disposal services and bring them closer to where people live. In the platform's view, disposal must not depend on income; the city sanitation company BSR is to get more staff.

The Left wants a cleaner city. There should be more places to drop off trash. Bulky waste means big items like old furniture. Each household should get two free pickups a year. The city sanitation company should get more workers.

The Left wants to expand environmental education for children, young people and adults. The platform sees protecting the climate and the environment as a task that cuts across every area of city life.

The Left wants more environmental education. Children should learn more about climate and nature in daycare and school. Adults should get programs too. Schoolyards should become greener. Students should have a say in this.

The Left wants to draw up a plan to end animal testing and to fund alternative methods. It also wants to reinstate a full-time state animal welfare commissioner and give financial support to the animal shelter and the pet food bank.

The Left wants to end animal testing in Berlin. There should be a plan with fixed dates. Other research methods should get funding. Berlin should again have an animal welfare officer. The animal shelter should get enough money.

The Left wants to abolish the list of dog breeds classed as dangerous and instead check whether owners are fit to keep dogs. Hunting law is to be refocused on animal and nature protection, and the platform plans separate protection and management schemes for pigeons, rats and birds in the city.

The Left wants to end the breed list for dogs. This list names dog breeds seen as dangerous. Instead, owners should show they can keep a dog. Hunting foxes and martens should stop. Pigeons should get supervised lofts.

The SPD wants better upkeep of green spaces, a new large public park in eastern Berlin, and a sharp increase in the number of street trees. Small parks, fountains and unsealed squares are to provide cooling in neighborhoods. The climate adaptation law is to be implemented without creating a new state agency.

The SPD wants more green in Berlin. A new large park is planned in the east of the city. There should be many more trees along the streets. Small parks and fountains should cool the city in summer. The city cleaning service should clean parks and playgrounds. Swimming in the Spree river should become possible.

The SPD wants to protect allotment gardens and open them to neighborhoods, implement the biodiversity strategy, and convert Berlin's forest into a climate-resilient mixed forest. Voluntary environmental work is to be recognized through the volunteer card and vouchers.

The SPD wants to protect nature in Berlin. Allotment gardens should stay and be open to neighbors. The forest should cope better with the climate. It should mainly be a place to relax. People who collect litter as volunteers get vouchers for museums or pools.

The SPD wants to strengthen the veterinary offices so they can police illegal animal trade and harmful breeding, and to secure funding for the animal shelter. The list of restricted dog breeds is to be replaced by a dog owner's license. Animals are not to be used on state-run stages.

The SPD wants to protect animals better. Offices should check illegal animal trade more closely. The animal shelter should get secure funding. Instead of a list of dangerous dog breeds, there should be a dog owner's license. Circuses with wild animals may not perform on land owned by the state.

The SPD wants to develop Berlin into a sponge city where more rainwater seeps into the ground on site instead of flowing into the sewers. At the same time, the drinking water supply is to be secured, water saved, and water bodies brought into good condition.

The SPD wants to use rainwater better. It should seep into the ground and not flow into the sewer. That helps plants and rivers. Berlin and Brandenburg should protect groundwater together. People should save water.

The SPD stands by the zero waste concept and wants a packaging tax to cut waste from food packaging. Against illegal dumping it relies on more neighborhood collection days, doorstep pickup of bulky waste, longer opening hours at recycling centers, and stronger enforcement.

The SPD wants less trash in Berlin. A tax on food packaging should help. The city cleaning service picks up bulky waste at your door twice a year. Every neighborhood gets a bulky waste day four times a year. People who dump trash on the street should be caught faster.