Environment Minister under pressure: irregularities in climate protection projects in China

Environment Minister under pressure: irregularities in climate protection projects in China
Weisgerber/Hirte: Union calls for further information on climate protection projects in China
The recently uncovered irregularities in climate protection projects in China raise many questions. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group is therefore again calling for information from Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke. At a meeting of the environmental committee, the minister today faced the questions of the faction.
Anja Weisgerber , the environmental spokeswoman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, emphasizes: "It is alarming that the Federal Environment Ministry itself gives 40 of the 69 climate protection projects in China. During the committee meeting, responsibility and device did not say unanswered.
Christian Hirte , the responsible rapporteur of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, added: "The session has shown that Minister Lemke has only a limited interest in extensive information. Minister for your own Person, instead of explaining the fraud. nobody. "
The current revelations throw a light on the control weaknesses in the area of climate protection. It is important that those responsible are held accountable and further measures are taken to prevent such incidents in the future. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group is committed to transparent and effective climate policy and will continue to work for comprehensive information and measures to improve.
Background: The CDU/CSU parliamentary group represents the People's Parties of the middle in parliament and feels committed to freedom, cohesion and personal responsibility. On the basis of the Christian image of man, the Union faction is committed to a strong freedom-democratic constitutional state, the social and ecological market economy, the integration into the western community of values and for the unification of Europe. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag is Friedrich Merz.