The SPÖ threat to abolish the CO2 price including the climate bonus is a declaration of bankruptcy
Vienna (OTS) – “Unfortunately, the SPÖ is still on the wrong side of history when it comes to climate protection,” says the Green Party’s climate protection spokesman, Lukas Hammer, and continues: “It no longer surprises anyone that the SPÖ still wants to use all its might to build the Lobau motorway. But the threat published today to abolish the CO2 price including the climate bonus is finally a declaration of bankruptcy by the social democrats in terms of climate policy and distribution policy.”
“The SPÖ should actually know that rich people cause significantly more CO2 than poorer people and therefore pay a higher CO2 price. And because the much-quoted ‘little man’ also has a smaller CO2 footprint, he ultimately receives more of a climate bonus than he pays in. For low incomes, the climate bonus is important support. Only the richest ten percent of the population pay more CO2 price than they receive climate bonus – that’s not what we Greens say, but the parliament’s budget service,” explains Hammer and states: “This is socially fair climate protection and it is disappointing that the SPÖ here follows the dull slogans of the populists instead of the scientific facts. Anyone who wants to abolish the climate bonus and the CO2 price is taking urgently needed money away from people with low incomes just to protect the profits of fossil companies.”
It is almost embarrassing that the SPÖ environmental spokeswoman, Julia Herr, defends the old ineffective red-black climate protection law. “We don’t need toothless paper tigers with nice headlines, but rather consistent climate protection measures in every single sector, many of which we Greens have already implemented in the last four years,” says Hammer.
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