As of: 09/16/2022 5:56 p.m
Several municipal climate protection projects have won the federal “Blue Compass” award. Environment Minister Lemke showed up tagesschau24 delighted. It is important to involve many social groups on the topic.
This year, for the first time, the “Blue Compass” federal prize goes to several initiatives for climate adaptation in the municipalities. According to the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), a total of five projects from Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia have received the award, which is endowed with 25,000 euros. 240 projects and initiatives had applied.
The winners were the Bocholter Aa flood alliance project in the Borken district, the Hof Tolle farm near Kassel, the EnergieBauZentrum craftsmen support initiative in Hamburg and the Miya association in Brandenburg, which uses small green spaces for educational opportunities on climate change adaptation. In addition, an audience award went to the Association of Friends of the Technical Monument Briquette Factory Louise e. V. in Brandenburg, which develops adaptation projects in rural areas.
Lemke: The climate crisis moves people
Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke showed up in an interview tagesschau24 very pleased about the great response in civil society to climate protection. Many projects have been submitted to protect water and also to cool cities. Protection against the climate crisis is something that particularly moves people after this summer.
“I was very happy about the great response,” said Steffi Lemke, Federal Minister for the Environment, about the projects to combat climate change
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According to Lemke, the decisive point is “that we get into the area and into practice, that we take many with us and in many places – in construction, in mobility and in agriculture – think that the climate crisis is here”. Now it’s about “expanding renewable energies, bringing down the CO2 and taking precautions”. Adaptation measures should be promoted especially in social institutions and in hospitals, where older people and children are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of the climate crisis.
Four billion euros for natural climate protection
In the next four years, four billion euros are to be made available for natural climate protection, Lemke said. The money is intended to be used as a precautionary measure, renaturing areas and protecting moors and creating more space for floodplains.