“Greens want exit commission”

The German Green Party is calling for a cross-party commission to prepare the shift to emissions-free transportation akin to the commission that brokered Germany’s nuclear exit and the transition to renewable energy sources, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten reports. Green frontrunner Cem Özdemir said former conservative CDU environment minister Klaus Töpfer was ready to head the body, dubbed the Future Commission for Environmentally Friendly Mobility, the newspaper says. The Secure Energy Supply ethics commission negotiated a societal consensus after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and laid out the principles of the Energiewende, it explains. Özdemir said the commission should be set up by the current government and provide ideas for a transport transition after September’s elections.

See a video on the Greens’ proposal on faz.net in German here.

See the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector and CLEW article The Green Party’s federal election programme for more information.