PRESS STATEMENT Climate protection agreements are an important tool for protecting jobs in industry

“It is high time that energy-intensive industries, in particular, are supported with measures that ensure planning certainty at stable and competitive prices. The federal government must make greater efforts to preserve at-risk industrial jobs. The back-and-forth over the still-unresolved bridge electricity price continues to create uncertainty in investment decisions. 

This makes it all the more important that the first round of bidding for climate protection contracts is now getting underway. It is also important that the minister has already announced today that further bidding processes will take place this year and next.

We expressly welcome the conditions that companies must meet in order to receive funding. This form of social conditioning for public funds is a new development in the energy transition and can serve as a blueprint for future funding programs. Taxpayer money must no longer be distributed unconditionally; instead, works councils and collective bargaining partners must be mandatorily involved in location decisions and have a say in the future.”

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