{"id":27440,"date":"2024-06-26T14:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protect-the-planet.de\/?p=27440"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:53:21","slug":"new-climate-lawsuit-climate-protection-act-unconstitutional-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protect-the-planet.de\/en\/new-climate-lawsuit-climate-protection-act-unconstitutional-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"New climate lawsuit: climate protection act unconstitutional in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27440\" class=\"elementor elementor-27440 elementor-27439\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f7ba5a5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f7ba5a5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-368c5612 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"368c5612\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"paragraph\" align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Lawsuit announced to correct misguided climate policy &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><br><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><strong>Protect the Planet supports class action lawsuit<\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, it was called a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-the-planet.de\/en\/german-constitutional-complaint\/\">historic judgement<\/a>\u2019 &#8211; also in the reactions of politicians &#8211; but unfortunately it didn&#8217;t help: \u2018After the last coalition in Germany, the current traffic light coalition is now also facing the realisation before the Constitutional Court that the increasingly serious consequences of climate change and the associated impairment of fundamental rights cannot be imposed on future generations alone. Unfortunately, politicians seem to need a massive correction through the courts,\u2019 explains <strong>Dorothea Sick-Thies<\/strong> on the new climate action before the Federal Constitutional Court, which is supported by Protect the Planet and sponsored by the Sick Environmental Foundation.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.germanwatch.org\/de\/91153\">Five German environmental organisations<\/a> will jointly file three new constitutional complaints in a major class action against current climate policy and the <strong>gutting of the Climate Protection Act (German: Klimaschutzgesetz, KSG)<\/strong> if Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier signs the amendment to the Climate Protection Act.<br>Some of the plaintiffs were already involved in the 2021 lawsuit and, in a landmark judgement, succeeded in having the Federal Constitutional Court grant climate protection constitutional status.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17314 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.protect-the-planet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Roda-Verheyen-Anwaeltin-Hamburg-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Roda Verheyen, lawyer Hamburg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr Roda Verheyen, lawyer for the complaint <\/strong>on behalf of the associations Germanwatch and Greenpeace, explained at the Federal Press Conference on the constitutional complaint 2.0: \u2018The task for the future has not been solved, the German budget will be used up by 2037 at the latest with the current policy. The overall reduction path is at risk. We are filing these complaints to defend fundamental rights, as the amendment to the Federal Climate Protection Act is unconstitutional.\u2019<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c200576 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c200576\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b782f2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5b782f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0223b84 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"0223b84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-the-planet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Zus.fassungVB.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Text of the lawsuit (PDF) (German)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6c8201 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c6c8201\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d5748e elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"7d5748e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.germanwatch.org\/de\/zukunftsklage\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Join here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c18f3b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2c18f3b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e7a4c45 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e7a4c45\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018<strong>All people with children and a sense of responsibility for future generations can and should join this action <\/strong>&#8211; the freedoms of tomorrow must not be limited by today&#8217;s emissions mania. All sectors &#8211; including the transport sector &#8211; must make their contribution, also in order to keep Germany as a business location fit for the future,\u2019 urges entrepreneur <strong>Dorothea Sick-Thies from Protect the Planet<\/strong> to join in. <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018We will support this legal action project to the best of our ability. It is regrettable that we have to go to court first for human rights that are taken for granted. We hope that the parties will start a catch-up process in order to fulfil their responsibility with regard to climate protection and actually drive it forward effectively,\u2019 adds<\/span> <b>Markus Raschke,<\/b> <strong>CEO of Protect the Planet.<\/strong> <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protect the Planet (founded in 2015) initiated the first climate action before the European Court of Justice <em>People&#8217;s Climate Case<\/em> in 2018, which also resulted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de\/SharedDocs\/Entscheidungen\/DE\/2021\/03\/rs20210324_1bvr265618.html\">constitutional complaint with the historic climate protection judgement of 2021<\/a>. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Links and forms for free participation can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.germanwatch.org\/de\/zukunftsklage\">here<\/a>. Donations are welcome.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46b181a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"46b181a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb6fa7b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cb6fa7b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96fe4eb elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"96fe4eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" 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