The focus on climate protection: Greens warn short -sighted savings!

The focus on climate protection: Greens warn short -sighted savings!

In the current political landscape, there are clear tensions in the coalition negotiations between the ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS. Leonore Gewessler, the Minister of Climate Protection, is critical of the priorities of the talks and emphasizes that climate protection does not have the importance of which he required. "There are three sitting at the table, for which climate protection is not so important," she said at a press conference on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the occupation of the Hainburg Au, which is seen as a turning point in the history of the Greens. In their eyes, it is alarming that climate protection is only treated in the negotiations under further persons and the ÖVP even plans to "smash" the Ministry of Climate, as the vienna.at .

Gewessler sees the challenges clear: "It is extremely short -sighted that the first thing that comes up with when it comes to saving is climate protection". There is a risk that the previous progress will be endangered in terms of EU energy and environmental policy. The former focus on the Ministry of Climate could risk Receding in the new government. "We must not allow this," concludes Bewesler, finding that the Greens have to work more strongly to position their fundamental concerns in the political arena.