Germany: SPD seek rengotiation of climate deal with CDU and CSU

W/S SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans poses with delegates with the SPD letters, Berlin
M/S Walter-Borjans poses with SPD letters
W/S Newly elected board members of the SPD pose for photos
M/S Newly elected board members of the SPD pose for photos
C/U Newly elected board members of the SPD pose for photos
M/S Delegates
W/S Delegates
M/S Screen saying 'consultation over motion environment and climate'.'
SOT, Kai Niebert, President of the German Nature Conservation Union (German): "It is also the truth that the decided measures of the climate deal are not enough to reach our climate goals of 2030. A maximum of a third is addressed there. And even with the decided measures, we do not steer into a world of 1.5 or 2 [degrees], but of 3.5 to 4 degrees.''
M/S Delegates applaud
SOT, Kai Niebert, President of the German Nature Conservation Union (German): "Therefore it is not only necessary but vital and demanded that the board members of the party will renegotiate [with the coalition partner CDU/CSU], not only homeopathically but substantially.''
M/S Delegates applaud
SOT, Kai Niebert, President of the German Nature Conservation Union (German): "I tell you, the Chancellor [Angela Merkel] was wrong last summer. She was wrong, when she said there is nothing else possible but this tiny climate deal. More than 80 percent of the citizens in this country have your backs, have your backs when you fight for an effective climate protection.''
W/S Delegates applaud
C/U Booklet with motions to be discussed during three day convention
SOT Svenja Schulze, German Minister for Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety (German): "The protection of climate is a chance at the same time, a chance for a better, more liveable future. Climate protection is a task of conformation.''
M/S Delegates
SOT, Svenja Schulze, German Minister for Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety (German): "The climate protection program - all the measures - that the government has decided now, will not be enough. You can already see that.''
M/S Delegates
SOT, Svenja Schulze, German Minister for Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety (German): "We have to oppose Altmaier [Minister for Economy and Energy Peter] and his entourage more strongly. We have to design the energy change in a way that it really moves forward.''
W/S Delegates vote on changes in SPD climate requests
M/S Delegates vote on changes in SPD climate requests
W/S Delegates
M/S SPD letters
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Germany's newly elected Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership announced plans to renegotiate a climate deal agreed with coalition partners the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) on the second-day of a three-day conference in Berlin on Saturday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel secured a deal in the summer after six months of negotiations. Svenja Schulze, the German Minister for Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety , argued that the current "climate protection programme - all the measures - that the government has decided now, will not be enough."
Kai Niebert, President of the German Nature Conservation Union criticised the current climate deal for being unlikely to manage the impact of 1.5 or 2 [degrees], saying it was more likely to be 3.5 to 4 degrees. He also said that renegotiating with CDU and CSU was "not only necessary but vital."
The first day of the convention saw the official announcement of Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans as the new leaders of the SPD party. They also disclosed their plans to continue the government coalition with CDU and CSU, despite previous threats to destabilise the coalition.