“Disaster is looming”
Emission reduction targets for the building sector laid out in Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050 combined with a planned limit to passing on modernising costs to tenants could “end in disaster” if landlords had to foot the bill, writes Michael Fuchs, Vice-Chairman of the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. “We have a conflict of objectives between the wish for affordable housing and highly ambitious climate targets. It is the task of a responsible government to make such conflicts of objectives transparent and find passable compromises together with the affected actors,” writes Fuchs.
For background read the 鶹 factsheet Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050.