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Program for the 2023 Bremen state election
The BIW wants to end animal testing in the state of Bremen, above all the neurological experiments on monkeys at the University of Bremen. Research methods that do not use animals should be funded instead.
The BIW wants no animal testing in Bremen. Above all, the tests on monkeys at the university should stop. Research without animals should get money. The BIW sees animals as fellow creatures.
The BIW wants compliance with animal welfare rules checked more often and more strictly for transports, slaughterhouses, circuses, and breeders. The pigeon population downtown is to be managed through supervised pigeon lofts.
The BIW wants more checks to protect animals. This applies to animal transport and slaughterhouses. It also applies to circuses and breeders. People who break the rules should face strict penalties. Pigeons should get supervised lofts at the edge of the city.
The BIW wants to scrap the dog tax and revise Bremen's dog owner law along the lines of Lower Saxony's. The list of breeds classified as dangerous would be dropped, and dogs would get more off-leash areas.
The BIW wants to end the dog tax. It thinks this tax is unfair. The law for dog owners should be rewritten. The list of dangerous dog breeds should go. Dogs should get more areas where they can run without a leash.
Program for the 2023 Bremen state election
The CDU wants to make parks and green spaces more usable, describing them as often uninviting. The Wallanlagen park is to become an "experience world" with food and drink on offer.
The CDU wants to make Bremen's parks nicer. There should be more benches, lights, and play equipment. Drinking fountains are also planned. People should be able to buy food and drinks in the Wallanlagen park.
The CDU wants to bring the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Garden Show) to Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is meant to show how cities can adapt to climate change and what individuals can contribute.
The CDU wants to bring the Federal Garden Show to Bremen. This is a large exhibition of gardens and parks. It should show how cities deal with climate change. The CDU wants to use existing parks for it.
The CDU wants to expand dike protection and raise dikes where needed to protect Bremen and Bremerhaven from future extreme floods. The platform sees this as part of adapting to climate change.
Dikes protect the cities from floods. The CDU wants to protect the dikes better. Where needed, they should be made higher. Animals such as nutria should not damage the dikes either.
The CDU wants to maintain and reforest parks, unseal suitable paved areas and add more greenery to roofs and facades. In the platform's view, this is to improve the urban climate, cool buildings and promote biodiversity.
The CDU wants more green in the city. Parks should get more trees. Roofs and house walls should carry plants. Gravel gardens should become green again.
The CDU wants to push back invasive animal and plant species that threaten native ones. The number of city pigeons is to be controlled through pigeon lofts, and rat infestations reduced through cleaner streets.
Some foreign animals and plants push out native species. The CDU wants to act against that. There should be pigeon hotels for pigeons. There, the eggs are swapped for plaster eggs. A clean city should help against rats.
The CDU wants to cut waste volumes and extend the useful life of consumer goods in order to save CO2. To that end, resource centers offering repair services are to be set up, and technologies for closed raw-material cycles are to be supported.
The CDU wants less trash. Things like devices and clothes should last longer. There should be centers where people can get things repaired. This saves money and helps the climate.
Program for the 2023 Bremen state election
The FDP wants to raise the state of Bremen's recycling rate in order to save raw materials. For public goods, raw material use should be disclosed and kept as low as possible.
The FDP wants Bremen to recycle more waste. This saves raw materials. The state should use little material when it builds. It should also show how much it uses.
The FDP wants more greenery in both cities and plans a greening concept with medium- and long-term planning. It cites residents' well-being, better air, the urban climate and climate protection as reasons.
The FDP wants more trees and plants in Bremen and Bremerhaven. There should be a plan for this. The trees should cope well with heat. Roofs and walls of public buildings should also be able to go green. This should make the air better and cool the city.
The FDP wants more trees planted in Bremerhaven, including one for every newborn child. In both Bremen and Bremerhaven, small and densely planted mini forests, known as Tiny Forests, are to be created.
The FDP wants more trees in the city. Bremerhaven should plant one tree for every new baby. Both cities should get small forests. They are called Tiny Forests. These are very small areas with many trees.
The FDP wants a dog law that focuses on owners' responsibility rather than on banned breeds. Anyone who wants to get a dog should first provide proof of competence.
Some dog breeds are banned in Bremen. The FDP wants to change that. What matters should be the owner, not the breed. Anyone who wants a dog should first show they know how to handle one.
The FDP commits to the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and calls for a binding sustainability strategy for the state and its two cities. It is meant to implement the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals locally and link all policy areas.
The United Nations has 17 goals for a good future. The FDP wants Bremen to make a firm plan for them. The plan should cover all areas of politics. People should be able to measure whether Bremen reaches the goals.
The FDP wants to integrate green spaces better into urban planning, preserve existing ones, and designate new ones. If green space is lost to construction, it is to be replaced elsewhere; on nature conservation the party relies on voluntary action and cooperation.
The FDP wants more green in the city. Parks and meadows should stay. Anyone who builds on green space must create new green elsewhere. Bremen should get 2038 new trees.
The FDP wants to appoint a volunteer municipal animal welfare commissioner to act as a link between animal welfare groups, politicians, and the administration. In addition, the Bremerhaven animal shelter is to be paid enough to cover its costs, and more off-leash areas for dogs are to be examined.
The FDP wants to protect animals better. One person should look after animal welfare in the city as a volunteer. The animal shelter in Bremerhaven should get enough money for its tasks. Dogs should get more areas to run free.
The FDP wants to preserve biodiversity in Bremen and Bremerhaven through protection and care, and calls for more wildflower meadows for bees and other insects. It adds research and joint restoration projects with Lower Saxony.
The FDP wants to protect bees and other insects. There should be more meadows with wild flowers. Researchers should get money from the federal government. Bremen should work with Lower Saxony on nature.
The FDP wants a wildlife management system that permits hunting species such as wolves, cormorants, and nutria. It considers hunting necessary to prevent disease, limit damage caused by wildlife, and obtain game meat.
The FDP wants hunters to be allowed to hunt more kinds of animals. These include wolves, cormorants, and nutria. The FDP says hunting protects against disease and damage. To the FDP, hunters are also protectors of nature.
The FDP wants to continue conservation projects in the Fehrmoor while opening the bog for recreation and education. It also wants to prioritize measures that automate water management and improve water quality in the drainage ditches.
The Fehrmoor is the last raised bog in the state of Bremen. The FDP wants to protect it. People should still be able to visit it. The water in the ditches should also get cleaner.
Program for the 2023 Bremen state election
The Greens want more trash cans, more frequent emptying, public information and more staff to tackle litter on streets and squares. Those responsible should be penalized consistently; temporary video surveillance would be examined at badly affected spots.
The Greens want clean streets and squares. There should be more trash cans. More staff should clear illegal dumps. People who dump trash should pay a higher fine. Cameras should be considered in some places.
The Greens want to adapt dikes and barriers to the effects of climate change and turn Bremen and Bremerhaven into sponge cities. Rainwater is to be held in the cities so it can seep away and evaporate. A heat protection plan is also planned.
The Greens want to protect Bremen from floods. Dikes should become stronger. Rainwater should soak into the ground in the city. For this, less ground should be covered with asphalt. There should be a protection plan for hot summers.
The Greens want to give public green spaces more weight in urban planning and gear their upkeep more toward biodiversity. The platform justifies this with the importance of green space for health and well-being, especially in poorer districts with few parks and gardens.
The Greens want to protect parks and green spaces in the city. The upkeep should help animals and plants. The city's green space agency should get more money and staff. Districts with little green space should get fixed minimum amounts.
The Greens want to issue a new tree protection ordinance and raise the number of street trees in Bremen to 100,000 by 2040. The platform sees trees as highly valuable in the climate crisis because they provide shade and shape the cityscape.
The Greens want to protect city trees better. There should be a new tree protection rule. Anyone who cuts down a tree must plant more than one new tree. By 2040, Bremen should have 100,000 street trees.
Because of longer dry spells, the Greens want to use water more sparingly and set up water cycles within Bremen. The city would in future obtain a third of its drinking water itself, up from 15 percent today.
Climate change brings more dry periods. So the Greens want to save water. Rainwater should be used more often. Bremen should get more drinking water from its own land.
The Greens want to use the upcoming re-tendering of the water concessions to gain more say at the utility hanseWasser. This is meant to let the public sector keep an eye on prices and respond better to water crises.
The Greens want more influence over the company hanseWasser. The water contracts will soon be awarded again. The Greens want to use this chance. The city should then control prices. Money from the contracts should pay for cleaner water.
The Greens want the city of Bremen to stop paving over additional land on balance by 2030. Anyone who seals new ground would pay into a fund that finances unsealing elsewhere.
Sealing means building or paving over soil. The Greens want to limit this. Anyone who seals soil should pay into a fund. That money frees up soil somewhere else. From 2030, Bremen should seal no extra soil on balance.
The Greens want to raise the Weser dike on the Neustadt side as a top priority and revise all flood protection plans in both cities. The platform points out that about 90 percent of the state's area is at risk of flooding and that climate change is making the danger worse.
Bremen is at high risk of flooding. The Greens want to make the dike in the Neustadt district higher. Other flood plans should also get better. Nobody should build in flood protection areas.
The Greens reject new deepening and straightening of waterways, including deepening the Lower Weser. According to the platform, deeper and straighter rivers make floods more dangerous and cause groundwater to drop. Instead, waterways would be restored to a more natural state and made more accessible to people.
The Greens do not want to make the Lower Weser deeper. Deep, straight rivers make floods more dangerous. Rivers should become more natural again. People should get better access to the riverbanks.
The Greens want to enlarge protected areas so that they meet European requirements and build a habitat network in both cities by 2030. The reason given is endangered meadow birds, ditch fish, insects and plants in the grassland-and-ditch landscapes.
Rare birds, fish, insects and plants live in Bremen. The Greens want to protect more areas for nature. By 2030, the protected areas should be linked. Such a link is called a habitat network.
The Greens want to improve urban air quality and are pushing at the federal level to turn low-emission zones into zero-emission zones. In the next legislative term, the technical and legal groundwork is to be laid. The platform points to the EU limits for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter as binding health protection.
City air should get cleaner. The Greens want zero-emission zones. These are areas where vehicles may not give off exhaust. Electric vehicles drive there. Companies should also give off fewer pollutants and smells.
The Greens want to make microchipping and registration mandatory for dogs and cats and introduce a competence certificate for dog owners. The Bremen animal shelter is to get secure funding, and the right of animal welfare groups to sue is to be widened. More pigeon lofts are planned for city pigeons.
Dogs and cats should get a chip. Owners then have to register their animals. People who keep a dog should take a test. The Bremen animal shelter should get steady money. Every district should have houses for pigeons.
The Greens want to tighten hunting law: fewer species that may be hunted and a ban on driven hunts and trapping. A rescue station for wild animals is also to be set up in the state of Bremen. At the federal level too, they back a ban on wild animals in circuses.
The Greens want to protect wild animals better. Hunters should be allowed to hunt fewer kinds of animals. Some ways of hunting should be banned. Hurt wild animals should get help at a station. Circuses should no longer have wild animals.
The Greens want to end animal experiments at research institutions in the state of Bremen and use every legal option to do so. The platform points above all to experiments on monkeys at the University of Bremen. They also want animal welfare strengthened at the federal level.
In Bremen, researchers do tests on animals. For example on monkeys at the university. The Greens want to end these tests. They want to use every law they can for this.
The Greens want to restructure the economy so that materials stay in circulation and less waste is produced. Bremen's organic waste is to be turned into biogas within the city, and more recycled materials are to be used in construction.
The Greens want less trash and less use of raw materials. Things should last longer and be used again. Organic waste should become biogas in Bremen. Building should use more recycled materials.
The Greens consider the planned deepening of the outer Weser unnecessary and want to avoid it; they reject deepening the lower Weser. The platform cites the intended port cooperation with Wilhelmshaven and ecological concerns. For material dredged from rivers, they call for a joint strategy of the northern German states.
There are plans to make the Weser river deeper for big ships. The Greens want to avoid this. They say it harms nature and is not needed. They also want a shared plan for the mud dug out of rivers. The northern states should make this plan together.
Program for the 2023 Bremen state election
The Left wants a circular economy in which more than 99 percent of raw materials are recycled in the future. The program cites scarce raw materials for the energy transition as well as environmental damage and human rights violations in mining.
Wind turbines and solar panels need raw materials. Mining them often harms nature and people. The Left wants to reuse almost all raw materials. Bremen should build the facilities needed for this.
The Left wants to protect the green belt around Bremen and allow no further development in undeveloped outlying areas. Parks, trees and allotment gardens are to be preserved and expanded, paved surfaces unsealed and the municipal environmental service given more funding.
A green belt of nature surrounds Bremen. The Left does not want any more building there. The city should have more parks, trees and allotment gardens. Allotment gardens should not become commercial land. The city's environmental service should get more money.
The Left wants Bremen's biodiversity strategy to be continually updated and carried out. Pesticides should no longer be used in Bremen, gravel gardens should disappear, and paved surfaces should be opened up and planted.
The Left wants to protect more animals and plants in the city. Bremen should stop using pesticides. Gravel gardens should stay banned. More areas should become green.
The Left rejects deepening the Lower Weser, arguing that the expansion harms the river and its tributaries ecologically. The deepening of the Outer Weser now applied for is to be the final stage.
The Left does not want to make the Lower Weser deeper. It says this harms the river and its wildlife. The Outer Weser should be deepened one last time only. Smaller rivers should become more natural again.
The Left wants Bremen to become a city built around the circular economy by 2038. At the same time, noise limits should not be loosened and illegal dumping should be stopped.
By 2038, Bremen should throw away less and reuse more. Broken devices should be repaired more often. Noise rules should stay strict. Illegally dumped trash should be removed quickly.
The Left wants to end experiments on primates at the University of Bremen and push at the federal level for stricter animal welfare law. Animal testing is to be handled far more restrictively.
The Left wants no more experiments on monkeys at the University of Bremen. Laws that protect animals should become stricter. Selling animals online should be banned. Animals should be kept and transported in better conditions.
The Left wants to introduce a mandatory certificate of competence, including dog training, for dog owners. Bremen's animal shelter should get reliable, sufficient funding, and public dovecotes are to be set up for city pigeons.
People who keep a dog should show they know how. This includes dog training classes. The animal shelter in Bremen should get more money. Pigeons should get their own shelters in the city.
The Left opposes expanding the Grauer Wall landfill in Bremerhaven and wants to plan a replacement site. It sees dangers to groundwater and residents and demands that less waste from outside be accepted.
Bremerhaven has a landfill. It is supposed to get bigger. The Left is against this. It sees dangers for groundwater and for neighbors. The party wants to look for another place for the waste.
Program for the 2023 Bremen state election
The SPD wants to develop both cities into "Circular Cities" that use resources sparingly and keep them in circulation. Waste reports, pilot projects and better collection of organic waste are meant to contribute.
The SPD wants less trash. Things should be repaired and reused more often. The cities should report regularly on what happens to the trash. Large apartment buildings should also get organic waste bins.
The SPD wants to preserve and expand green and water areas in both cities, unseal paved land and protect trees better. This is meant to serve climate protection, adaptation to heat and heavy rain, and biodiversity, and to secure recreation areas for everyone.
The SPD wants more green space in the city. Trees should be better protected. Paved areas should be opened up so rain can soak in. Roofs and walls should get plants. All neighborhoods should have green space equally.
The SPD wants to protect the peatlands in the state of Bremen because they store CO2 and matter for nature and species protection. It wants to examine which areas can be rewetted and to involve farmers from the start.
Peatlands store a lot of CO2. The SPD wants to protect Bremen's peatlands. It wants to check where dried peatlands can be made wet again. Farmers should have a say from the start.
The SPD wants to fight litter in public spaces with education, more checks and fines. The Ordnungsdienst (municipal enforcement service) is to grow in all districts, and cameras are to be used for limited periods at individual dumping hotspots.
Some streets in Bremen have a lot of trash. The SPD wants to change that. It wants to inform people and check more often. People who dump trash illegally should pay a fine. Cameras will hang in some places for a while. There will also be more trash cans and public toilets.