The expectations were high, in the summer Söder had asked for a “climate change”. However, the draft that has now been adopted will not be sufficient to meet the 1.5 degree target of the Paris climate protection agreement, criticize the opposition and environmental groups.
If you ignore the corona pandemic, the fight against global warming is the political mega-topic of Prime Minister and CSU boss Markus Söder. A symbol for this is a photo from the hot summer of 2019. It comes from the Hofgarten in Munich and shows Söder hugging a tree. In terms of rhetoric, Söder is now also taking on every green when it comes to climate change. In view of the flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, he called for a “climate change” this summer. And in his government declaration on climate protection at the end of July, he named Bavaria “Climate State Number One”. The expectations of the new Bavarian Climate Protection Act were very high. Especially since Söder announced it more than half a year ago.