| Climate neutrality | ≈no explicit target; focus on an “efficient and affordable” climate policy, decarbonizing district heating and energy grids, but oppose strict obligations and shutting down the gas network | ✓climate-neutral Berlin by 2045; implement the Berlin Energy Transition Act; “Out of oil and gas. Into sun, wind, and other renewables” | ✓goal: climate-neutral Berlin by 2040; climate check for laws and measures; implement the Berlin Climate Protection Act, with mandatory action programs if targets are missed | ✓climate-neutral Berlin no later than 2040; anchor a CO₂ budget and climate safeguard; sector budgets for energy, transport, buildings, and the economy |
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| A100 construction | ✓support planning the 17th section; keep cars as a necessary part of mobility | ✗instead of continuing A100 — repair streets and bridges, sustainable transport; A100 should end at Treptower Park | ✗against continuing A100; demand removing 17th section from federal planning | ✗A100 should end at Treptower Park; remove the 17th section from the land-use plan and push for removal from federal law |
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| Road construction | ✓significantly increase investment in road construction; Tempo 50 as the rule on main roads; 200+ million € for bridges in 2026/27; build TVO | ≈the road network is important for buses, emergency services, BSR, and business; repair streets and bridges, but without continuing A100; build TVO as a road | ≈streets safer and fairer in how space is distributed; more Tempo 30, traffic calming, safe school zones; focus on repair and transformation, not on new motorways | ≈against new motorways; focus on repairing roads and bridges, coordinating construction sites, in conflicts, priority for the environmental transport network; new road plans only where they serve the public good |
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| New U-Bahn construction / line extensions | ✓extensions U2, U3, U6, U7, U8, U9; U10 include in planning; CBTC/partial automation, S‑Bahn more frequent and better service in outer districts, i2030 | ✓continue U3 to Mexikoplatz, U7 to BER and Heerstraße, U8 to Märkisches Viertel; start planning U‑Bahn Alexanderplatz—Hohenschönhausen; tram projects and i2030 | ✓public transport without cuts; 1,500 new U-Bahn cars, more electric buses; S-Bahn/tram expansion, i2030, cancel the tram stop; check U-Bahn extensions by cost-benefit ratio and passenger impact | ✓U‑Bahn as backbone of public transport: modernize and preserve the network, 1,500 cars, more frequent service, automation toward 90-second headways; extensions primarily to close network gaps; expand S-Bahn/tram/bus |
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| Cycling infrastructure | ✓renovate existing bike lanes, close gaps, develop cycle highways; new bike lanes only where needed; bike parking at S/U-Bahn stations | ✓cycling plan and priority cycling network, cycle highways, more bike racks, bike parking garages and Bike&Ride with lighting and weather protection; support for bike-sharing system | ✓cancel the bike-lane construction stop; comfortable protected bike lanes, bike streets, cycle highways Ost/West/Wannsee, winter maintenance, more bike parking at stations | ✓safe connected cycling network, bike streets and cycle highways according to the cycling network plan; protected bike lanes, closing gaps, Bike‑and‑Ride and bike parking at stations; 30 minutes on a rental bike free with a public-transport ticket |
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| Parking | ✓preserve parking spaces in public space; simplify managed paid parking; affordable resident parking; neighborhood garages; P+R in outer districts; Bike&Ride | ≈separate car-parking policy was not found in the reviewed excerpts; there is Bike&Ride/bike parking and charging in store parking lots; overall focus — public transport, cycling and street repair | ≈expand paid/managed parking zones and reduce parking spaces over the long term; Scan‑Cars; short-term business parking and loading zones; neighborhood garages and car-sharing spaces | ≈expand managed paid parking and enforcement through Scan Cars; SUV parking more expensive following the Paris model; redistribute parts of streets/parking areas for walking/cycling, trees and quality of public space; delivery and service-vehicle parking zones for necessary traffic |
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| EV charging | ✓continue expanding charging infrastructure; reliable public charging points; charging points in P+R/Bike&Ride‑hubs; hydrogen as a supplement for heavy transport, buses, and ships | ✓continue expanding public charging; additional charging points in store parking lots, fast charging while shopping; better charging infrastructure for passenger shipping | ✓accelerate electromobility: zero-emission zone in the center, starting with BVG buses; charging as part of the transport transition | ✓public charging infrastructure run by municipal utility, also accessible to tenants without their own parking space; electric commercial/service transport, small electric vans and cargo bikes |
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| Tempelhofer Feld development / “edge development” | ✓for housing around the field’s edges — “20 000 new apartments” | ✗preserve the field; “apartments along the edge of the field are not being considered…”, around the building — land owned by the city/cooperatives | ✗against development; “the referendum is binding”, the field is “irreplaceable” | ✗preserve Tempelhofer Feld entirely as open land; keep the referendum law; against development and privatization; develop the airport building as a social, ecological, and cultural future-oriented district |
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| Large-scale tree planting and/or tree care | ✓increase the number of street trees to 1 million by 2040; realistic goals, district involvement and reliable funding | ✓increase the number of trees by 2040; plant empty tree pits by 2027; new locations for trees, ideally every 15 m; priority for preserving trees in planning | ✓goal: one million trees; Trees Plus Act, planting in heat hotspots, on sealed/asphalted surfaces and in dense neighborhoods; reliable care and rainwater use | ✓number of street trees to 1 million by 2040; funding for planting and care; implementation of the Tree Referendum, use parking spaces where there is no other room; strengthen green-space offices and watering with non-potable water |
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| Heat protection | ✓implement Climate Adaptation Act; heat protection take into account in planning; more street trees; drinking water and fountains | ✓Berlin Climate Adaptation Act; more greenery and cool spaces, Mini‑Parks, water and drinking fountains; act in hot spots, where heat, noise, pollution, and social burden overlap | ✓climate islands with shade, water, and seating; open public air-conditioned buildings during heat; more drinking fountains and drinking points for pets and wild animals; develop annually heat action plan | ✓socially differentiated heat-protection plan with binding measures and funding; cool rooms in every neighborhood, shade on playgrounds/splash pools; Tempelhofer Feld as cool-air area do not build on |
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| “Sponge city” / rainwater retention / unsealing surfaces | ✓decentralized rainwater management, storage and fewer discharges; green roofs/facades; clean water bodies | ✓“sponge city” with Berlin Waterworks and rainwater agency; disconnect more rainwater from the sewer system, infiltrate it on site and use it for greenery | ✓“sponge city” concept: water stays in the city; unsealing, preserving cool-air corridors, using rainwater, new green corridors between parks and natural areas; from 2030 — zero increase in sealed surfaces | ✓“sponge city”: unsealing surfaces, local infiltration and storage of rainwater, disconnection from the combined sewer system, strengthen the rainwater agency; net-zero increase in sealed surfaces by 2030 and compensatory unsealing |
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| Zero waste / waste prevention | ✓waste prevention, repair bonus, NochMall, redistribution of clothing, organic-waste bins, wood-waste recycling; more sorting and recycling BSR in Berlin | ✓Zero‑Waste, tax on single-use packaging/dishes/cutlery; Repair‑Cafés, Re‑Use‑shops, more old-wood recycling; multilingual communication | ✓Zero Waste: avoid–reuse–recycle; repair bonus, repair networks, second-hand department store in every district, circular-economy center in every district; strengthen the Zero Waste Agency, reusable-packaging support | ≈no separate Zero Waste strategy; focus on public waste management “from a single source”, cheap/low-threshold disposal and mobile recycling stations |
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| BSR / waste collection and infrastructure | ✓BSR expands cleaning in parks, playgrounds, and forests; paid service BSR bulky-waste collection from home; more separate containers | ✓BSR should clean all parks and playgrounds; cleaning cycles should adapt to district needs, BSR staff allocation by amounts of waste, not by district borders; free bulky-waste pickup from home twice a year (financed through household-waste fees), BSR neighborhood collection days more often. | ✓BSR should clean all parks and playgrounds; BSR neighborhood collection days more often and more convenient, more weekend dates; free disposal once a year bulky waste for every household; neighborhood bulky-waste days | ✓more recycling centers and nearby drop-off points, bulky-waste drop-off points in large housing estates, underground containers in new neighborhoods; expand BSR neighborhood collection days; bulky-waste pickup free twice a year; structurally strengthen BSR |
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| Cleanliness / enforcement / litter | ✓fines; +3000 bins by 2030; underground containers; AI/video surveillance against waste hotspots | ✓volunteer card/vouchers for cleanups, Kehrenbürger volunteer-cleanup program continue and expand; waste prevention, recycling, more sorting and recycling BSR in Berlin | ✓Zero‑Waste, tax on single-use packaging/dishes, Repair‑Cafés and Re‑Use; oblige BSR to accept all types of waste at recycling centers; more old-wood recycling; multilingual communication | ✓more bins and cleaning in polluted areas; cleanup actions; park rangers into permanent funding; public-order offices systematically enforce mandatory offer of reusable packaging; involve neighborhood councils in cleanliness |
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| Solar energy / photovoltaics | ✓Berlin is already a solar leader; develop PV on large and public roofs, at municipal housing companies; against mandatory solar panel installation, repeal the Berlin Solar Act | ✓master plan Solarcity to obtain 25% energy from solar, expansion of PV systems and electricity storage, serving the grid, including through the SolarPlus program | ✓all technically suitable public buildings with solar installations by 2030; strengthen SolarPLUS and Solar Center; tenant electricity from local solar installations, community PV, balcony PV with batteries; PV in parking lots and other sealed areas | ✓Masterplan Solarcity: 4.4 GW potential; solar installations on all suitable public-building roofs by 2030 with monitoring and consequences for non-compliance; support for balcony solar panels and tenant electricity from local solar installations |
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| Wind energy | ✗against large wind turbines in Berlin, especially in forests and recreation areas; at federal level reform area requirements for city-states | ✓“Raus aus Öl und Gas. Rein in Sonne, Wind und andere Erneuerbare” | ✓designate areas for wind; preferably commercial and industrial areas, not forests; round tables, local residents’ participation in revenues; pilots for small wind turbines on high-rises | ✓expansion of wind energy with participation of residents and districts; implementation of the Wind-on-Land Act; preferably industrial areas, without harming nature; districts share in profits |
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| Gas / gas network | ✓gas and the gas network remain important for reliable and affordable heat; against shutting down the gas network; competition between gas, district heating and heat pumps | ✗“Raus aus Öl und Gas”; replace fossil heating; gas for individual apartments is limited, GASAG could be bought back for transformation | ✗gas distribution network largely not decarbonizable and in the medium/long term largely unnecessary; partial conversion to green hydrogen only for industry/commerce without alternatives; socially fair phase-out of unnecessary network sections through negotiations with GASAG | ✗fossil gas phase-out socially and infrastructurally coordinated; replace gas heating as quickly as possible, no longer install it in public buildings; at an appropriate price — remunicipalization/socialization of GASAG |
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| Hydrogen | ✓hydrogen for industry and power plants; research cluster; infrastructure along transport axes, logistics centers and industrial zones; hydrogen regional trains | ≈build a hydrogen economy; hydrogen in individual apartments technically limited, there will be less climate-neutral gas | ✗green hydrogen not for heating in the foreseeable future; only for industry and commercial buildings, where direct electrification is impossible | ≈only green hydrogen and only where there is no direct electric alternative: ships/aviation, industry, peaks in district heating; not as mass heating |
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| Heat pumps | ✓heat pumps as part of competition between energy systems; use where sensible and economical; shallow and deep geothermal energy | ✓through heating planning replace fossil heating; support heat pumps, neighborhood heating, geothermal energy, solar thermal energy | ✓additional support for heat pumps, especially in single-/two-family houses and suitable apartment buildings; large heat pumps, deep geothermal energy and waste heat from data centers/wastewater | ✓outside heating grids, electrification is usually the most efficient; large heat pumps using river and wastewater for heating supply; geothermal energy and waste heat |
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| Heating supply / networks: decarbonization and/or transformation | ✓decarbonization of district heating; climate pact more than €0.5 billion for district heating and the electricity grid; municipal heating planning, but security of supply and affordability — main criterion | ✓expansion of district heating through state-owned provider; buying back networks enables decarbonization; BSR should make greater use of energy from waste and wastewater | ✓priority — decarbonization of district heating, not just network expansion; Berlin Energy and Heat utility should invest in genuinely climate-neutral technologies: large heat pumps, deep geothermal energy, waste heat from data centers and wastewater; against wood-fired CHP plants and new waste-incineration capacity Klingenberg | ✓expansion of district heating and local heating grids; goal — decarbonizing heat with security of supply and affordability; heating agency, neighborhood concepts, power-to-heat, storage; do not count waste incineration as decarbonization |
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| Nuclear energy | ✓for returning to nuclear energy; Berlin as a center of nuclear research | ≈no direct position on nuclear energy in the reviewed Berlin excerpts; general course — technology openness and affordable energy | —— | —— |
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| Animal protection | ✓ban the sale of pets in public places; stronger control of online platforms | ✓strengthen veterinary services against illegal animal trade; ban animals on state stages and circuses with wild animals; public spaces as habitat for urban nature and animals | ✓biodiversity strategy through 2030 and beyond, help for wild animals, bird protection and measures against light pollution; against illegal puppy trade through mandatory proof of origin; long-term funding animal shelters / “food banks/help tables” with food / wildlife aid stations; emergency aid fund; animal-free research and gradual replacement of experiments | ✓strengthen animal rights: independent state animal-welfare commissioner, law giving organizations standing to sue; plan to phase out animal testing, funding for the Berlin animal shelter and animal food/help bank, neutering street cats; abolish the list of “dangerous” dog breeds |
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