The Green Party's top candidate calls for climate neutrality in Saxony-Anhalt by 2035

Before the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, Green Party lead candidate Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz reiterated her party's goal of the country becoming climate neutral as early as 2035. This is simply necessary, she said in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”. In every single heat phase last summer, the hottest place was in Saxony-Anhalt. In some cases the farmers' rapeseed crops had fallen out of the pods in the fields.

She concluded: “We have a problem with the climate crisis in Saxony-Anhalt. And I haven’t talked about the heat in the cities and the health consequences of heat.”

The MP, who previously worked as a nurse, said Saxony-Anhalt is already a pioneer in renewable energies with 60 percent of them in the energy mix. “There is more that can be done and more can be done especially because we have the resources here. We have wind, we have sun, we have the land and we also have farmers, for example, who say: I can accommodate this on my land too.”

In view of high energy costs, Sziborra-Seidlitz also sees the federal government as having a duty to save the chemical industry in Saxony-Anhalt from its current difficult situation. It is important that the federal government also considers Saxony-Anhalt's locations in its gas strategy. “In many places” this didn’t happen, said the Green Party’s top candidate.