Baden-Württemberg

Germany

Thüringen

Niedersachsen

Berlin

Saarland

Hessen

Nordrhein-Westfalen

Sachsen

Hamburg

Rheinland-Pfalz

Bayern

Sachsen-Anhalt

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Brandenburg

Schleswig-Holstein

Bremen

In November 2022, Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe), submitted a complaint to the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg. The environmental organization argues that in accordance with the Federal Climate Protection Act, the German government is required to draw up a climate protection program for the land use, land use change and forestry sector (LULUCF). It submitted that the current measures were insufficient to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality. 

On November 8, 2021, environmental organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH; Environmental Action Germany) brought a claim against the state of Baden-Württemberg (BaWü) asking the Higher Administrative Court of BaWü to order the BaWü government to adopt an integrated energy and climate protection plan to: (i) reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 65% by 2030 (as compared to 1990 levels) and (ii) reach carbon neutrality by 2040. 

The state’s climate protection law (KSG BW), adopted in 2013 and amended in 2021, stipulates that in 2020 and every five years thereafter, the state government shall decide an integrated energy and climate protection concept, which sets out essential objectives, strategies and measures for meeting the overall climate protection goals. This concept is to be decided on the basis of legally mandated monitoring reports and following consultations with civil society associations and federations. Plaintiff complaints that to date, no such integrated energy and climate protection concept exists, even though the KSG BW was amended in 2021. As a result, plaintiff argues, the state is in violation of its own Climate Protection Act. 


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