Overview

• Provisional returns show the climate initiative at 52.6% yes, meeting the 20% approval quorum and making the measure binding under Hamburg’s direct-democracy rules.
• Turnout was 43.6% of roughly 1.3 million eligible voters, with 80.8% of ballots cast by mail, according to the statistics office.
• The new law mandates annual CO2 caps, regular monitoring and automatic corrective programs if targets are missed, and it includes tenant protections and other social safeguards.
• The universal basic income model vote trails decisively in partial counts, with opponents roughly two-to-one ahead and supporters well short of the required quorum.
• The UBI proposal sought a three-year, city-funded trial for 2,000 residents paying €1,346 per month plus health insurance at a cost near €50 million, with payments adjusted for recipients’ own income.