We are experiencing a time of change. What about the future of the country? What innovative ideas are there? That is the theme of the major SZ focus “Future Germany”. All articles as well as further analyzes and reports can be found on this page.
The goals that the federal government has set for itself in terms of climate protection are ambitious. In the transport sector alone, CO₂ emissions should fall by 48 percent by 2030, and Germany should be climate-neutral in this area by 2045. How ambitious these goals are becomes particularly clear when you consider that carbon dioxide emissions in traffic have hardly decreased since 1990 – apart from the effect of the corona pandemic. “The traffic is and will remain the big problem child in the climate targets for the Federal Republic”, says Philipp Kosok of the Berlin think tank Agora Verkehrswende. Especially in rural areas, the car continues to determine people’s mobility behavior. But how can that be changed? Away from the car and towards other means of transport? In fact, there are numerous possible solutions. An overview.