Baden-Württemberg must be climate-neutral by 2040 in order to achieve the goals set in the fight against global warming.Winfried Hermann (Greens) is convinced that efforts must not only be increased in the transport sector.In Oslo he got inspiration.For 35 (!) years, mobility experts have been meeting at the EVS, one of the largest trade fairs on the subject of electronics.Stuttgart was the venue in 2017, this time the minister is traveling to Oslo with a small delegation, also to present the southwest after eleven years with green-led state governments as a regional model.In his keynote speech, he puts the cards on the table for his third and last legislative period and underpins the central, but very flowery climate protection formulations from the coalition agreement of spring 2021 with facts.Greens and CDU promised to achieve zero emissions "as soon as possible" and "by 2040 at the latest"."If we really want to succeed," says Hermann a good year later, "we have to do more quickly".For the transport sector, this means that by 2030, emissions will not have to be reduced by 40 percent, as previously planned, but by 55 percent - "and we won't be able to do that just because every second car on the road is electric."Because the almost 70-year-old has been drilling at the very thick board for a long time, he knows about the resistance.For example, from Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU).He wanted to convince them - not for the first time - to join forces in autumn 2020 and to drive forward the mobility revolution together.In a letter he demanded, always with the Paris Agreement in mind, that inner-city individual traffic be reduced by a third and that every third car be driven in a climate-neutral manner.The cabinet colleague dismissed him coolly and a spokeswoman explained that the ideas were too sweeping "in view of the potential for climate-friendly drive systems and fuels, because a car that no longer emits pollutants is not part of the problem, but part of the solution".It would be nice, the Norwegian hosts know."It's great," says Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygård, "that people are using electric cars."But it's less great "when people get in their cars and drive into busy urban areas instead of walking, cycling or using public transport".All Norwegian governments, regardless of political orientation, have gradually created new incentives since the 1990s to phase out fossil fuels for all vehicles, including trucks and ships, in such a sparsely populated country of all places.In 2020, at 54 percent, more than half of all new cars in Norway were pure electric cars for the first time, with the plug-in hybrids even three out of four.One comparison particularly impresses Hermann: More e-Porsche Taycans are currently registered in Oslo than diesel vehicles.The coalition of the Center Party and the Workers' Party therefore wants to restructure the subsidies.The well-occupied lanes reserved for emission-free vehicles in Oslo's morning traffic show the need for action.The experts from Baden-Württemberg would like to grapple with such worries.In fact, the lead in transformation is one of the many topics discussed intensively over these four days.According to one of the experts from Herman's ministry, the Norwegians are ten years ahead.It doesn't have to take ten years to catch up, however, because numerous approaches have long been tried and proven.Having your own lanes past the traffic jam of the combustion engines is one of the many privileges.On the blue square in Oslo, taxis can fill up with electricity without contact and free of charge.Photo: Johanna Henkel-WaidhoferHermann had already campaigned for a similar idea - based on the Californian model at the time: car pools use bus lanes, a project that Prime Minister Lothar Späth was interested in in the 1980s and later CDU man Thomas Schäuble.All plans came to nothing and when the Greens wanted to revive the idea after the change of power, he had to let himself be denigrated: Today’s Minister for Housing, Nicole Razavi, imagined – rogues just think like that – that commuters would buy mannequins would continue to sit alone in the car, but at the same time be able to use the preferred carpool lanes.This time, the FDP parliamentary group is once again reacting particularly simply to the recent push in terms of transport policy.Friedrich Haag, the new Stuttgart member of parliament, complains about "sensationalism and fixation on one's image" and doubts that "it will achieve anything at all".The view over the valley basin is always worthwhile.If catching up in fast motion were really the goal of the state government and if the CDU were willing to get through conflicts with stakeholders and/or on site together, the knowledge gained in Oslo would offer a rich field of activity.For example – watch out, mayor Frank Nopper and chief strategist Martin Körner!– with the radical reduction of parking spaces in the city center, which ensures free, punctual travel for surface trams and buses.Or how emission-free 44-ton trucks can hit the road.How contactless taxis charge while waiting in the queue.Or that the topic of charging infrastructure, which is hotly debated in Germany and deliberately thrown at the feet of politicians by the automotive industry, would first have to be tapped when asked how many home builders actually use their sockets at home in everyday life anyway.Fascination with high-tech: Minister of Transport Hermann, Green, is allowed to monitor autonomous ships in Norway.Photo: Johanna Henkel-WaidhoferA major theme of the trip is shipping.In Horten - around 60 kilometers south of Oslo - two brave captains in uniform are standing at a desk with 13 screens, which is supposed to be their future.Because electrification with autonomous control brings the greatest gain in efficiency.In concrete terms, this means: container ships sail the world's oceans without a crew.If the expansion of self-learning, artificially intelligent systems does not conjure up deep lines of concern on your forehead, you can easily rattle off the advantages: better navigation, faster relief, fewer accidents and the elimination of human error."Here is the future," says one of the two captains, who sit at the large desk in everyday life and without guests from Baden-Württemberg in jeans and knowing that they will see their family every evening - in the immediate vicinity of the Oslo Fjord, but this should by no means be taken for granted in the all too distant future for reasons of cost reduction.There are much cheaper locations for the new type of bridge all over the world.On the return trip by ferry, the transferability is discussed among experts.On the Neckar and Rhine, inland vessels could travel emission-free downstream and hybrid-assisted upstream.The Green Minister of Transport has big plans for Lake Constance, the Swabian Sea, and he also has the corresponding order for the experts in his house.In the next twelve months, they should develop plans for how Lake Constance could become climate-neutral by 2025 on the road, on the rails and especially on the water.More than 40,000 motor boats are registered there.And of course, everyone agrees, electric ferries could also operate between Konstanz and Meersburg.At least if an investor could be found.And the debt brake would finally give the public authorities the leeway that is necessary to initiate the many climate-relevant projects that are not or not yet marketable.The catamaran is reminiscent of the impressive Oslo Opera, offers 400 passengers barrier-free space and costs the equivalent of 14 million euros.One of the officers smiles when the passengers from Stuttgart ask about the price: "We have to do it, but we can do it too."The billions from the sale of oil are piling up for the benefit of future generations, year after year three percent can be taken from the fund for the present.Greens and blacks in Stuttgart can only dream of such an investment volume.In the upcoming negotiations for the 2023/2024 budget, Hermann hopes for a plus, of course, in the millions, as he did in 2022.For example, to keep the new department five in his house (department 5 "Mobility Center, Connected and Digital Mobility") busy.During a visit to the Oslo transport administration, one of the digitization experts from Stuttgart shakes a short presentation of his own projects out of his sleeve.Now it's up to the Norwegians to be impressed.Collected traffic data is passed on in real time, not as a pilot project, but is already freely accessible to everyone and nationwide.The next step is to record all traffic signs.The host knows what that's good for, because his Tesla sometimes makes a mistake with the speed limit.The EVS shows that the Southwest is recognized as a "regional frontrunner".The reception for multipliers is so well attended that the minister tries to be a commercial poet and praises the "Ständ of the Länd".The guests from Baden-Württemberg are seriously in demand as conversation partners: inside from New Zealand to California.Next year the "Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition" (EVS) will take place in Sacramento.The Green already has an invitation in his pocket, and in Sacramento he would like to have some facts with him: namely the country's new CO2 savings targets for the individual areas.In the next few days, the Ministry of the Environment will present these guidelines for all houses and they will cause a lot of excitement in and outside the coalition.Above all, Hermann hopes that the state government will finally pull together.As it says in the exploratory paper, which the CDU used a year ago as a door opener for their continued government participation in the Kretschmann III cabinet: "Ambitious reduction targets are set."And further: "The negotiating parties will continue to promote and implement climate-friendly mobility and traffic change."Time is pressing more than ever.Science has been warning of global warming and its consequences for decades.What can still be done, what must finally be done?The state's Ministry of Transport has set the course: As one of five model municipalities, Stuttgart will develop a concept by the end of the year to reduce CO2 emissions in transport by 40 percent by 2030.Winfried Hermann is angry.About the fact that the Greens did not get the transport department in the new federal government, and he also finds many gaps in the new coalition agreement.Where is the departure, asks the Baden-Württemberg…The minister becomes an author: Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Transport, Winfried Hermann, has written a book about mobility and the turnaround in traffic, linked to his life story.It is, of course, about Stuttgart 21, but also about…The head of the German Environmental Aid does not believe in the German auto industry going green.He finds the "city tanks" from Porsche and Daimler particularly scandalous.One of them doesn't even fit in the car wash.The electric car saves the climate.This impression could arise if one believed the promises of industry and politics.Far too short, writes our author.The car itself is the problem.The State Statistical Office is moving in Stuttgart-Heslach.6,000 square meters will be free and would have…Where the climate is spiraling out of control, technocratic ideology continues to believe in the…In times of fake news, CONTEXT is more important than ever.Help us to do critical journalism.Donate!Be the first to comment!With this registration, you will regularly receive our latest issue by e-mail every Wednesday morning.The KONTEXT:Wochenzeitung has been around since April 2011 and is currently financed by around 1,500 supporters.You too can support KONTEXT – for quality journalism that is independent, critical and profound.with the solos |with a donation |as a memberKONTEXT is an advertising-free and independent newspaper from Stuttgart, which is supported by donations.Every Wednesday online from 12:00 a.m., every Saturday as a print supplement to the nationwide taz.am weekend.Spread the idea of ​​journalism as it should be with us.On the following channels you will find news and information that are independent of our weekly issue.Our website uses cookies.These have two functions: On the one hand, they are required for the basic functionality of our website.On the other hand, we can use cookies to continuously improve our content for you.Since context is free of advertising, the data collected in this way is only used by us and cannot be misused.Revoke consent: privacy policyThese cookies are required for the smooth functioning of our website.With the help of these cookies we try to improve our offer for you.The user flow can be analyzed and assessed using pseudonymised data from website users.Since context is free of advertising, the data collected in this way is only used by us and cannot be misused.