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Climate Neutrality

The University of Oldenburg is legally obliged to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. However, the university has set itself the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2030. In setting a more ambitious target, the university is joining the majority of German universities.

Country level

In 2021, the German government passed the Federal Climate Protection Act (Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz, KSG) with the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Following a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court in April 2021, this law was revised once again so that Germany is to achieve climate neutrality in 2045. The KSG sets an interim target of a GHG reduction of 65% by 2030 and provides for a reduction of 88% of GHG emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2040. The requirements of the municipal guideline for this project are also based on these targets.

Federal state level

The state of Lower Saxony also passed a climate protection law (NKlimaG). In 2021, the state parliament decided that Lower Saxony should become climate neutral by 2050. In June 2022, this law was revised in analogy to the federal government, so that the state would also like to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. With this, the state links the target for its own state administration to also achieve climate neutrality by 2045. The interim targets for 2030 and 2040 are largely in line with the KSG at federal level (reduction of GHG emissions by 86% by 2040 in the NKlimaG). Since the University of Oldenburg is in the state enterprise and is therefore part of the state administration, these climate protection goals apply accordingly to the university. A corresponding strategy paper is available from the state of Lower Saxony.

Municipal level (Oldenburg and Wilhemshaven)

Initiated by a strong climate protection movement in Oldenburg and in Germany in general, the so-called "FFF process" was started in 2020, in which the city administration developed a catalogue of measures together with the parliamentary groups and the climate activists invited to participate. The year 2035 was set as the target year for climate neutrality. Since most of the university is located on Oldenburg's municipal territory, the target year of 2035 is actually also transferable for the university.

The city of Wilhelmshaven has not yet adopted a climate neutrality target.

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