Overview
- The Bavarian Landtag is set to approve the revised climate law on Thursday with the CSU and Freie Wähler majority making passage a formality.
- The law removes a specific climate‑neutrality date and binding sector CO₂ targets and replaces them with orientation to the federal 2045 goal and average per‑capita emissions.
- Greenpeace announced it will file a constitutional complaint this year and has hired lawyer Roda Verheyen, citing a model that says the law could nearly double Bavaria’s allowable emissions.
- State ministers defend the change by pointing to 50 measures in the new law and the primacy of federal and EU rules, while experts and opposition figures say the law will weaken protection for people and the environment.
- The planned lawsuit draws on the 2021 Federal Constitutional Court climate ruling and could force judges to decide how far a state may relax targets as farmers and residents already feel heat and drought impacts.