The environmental network GRÜNE LIGA is today publishing a background paper on the planned “Net Zero Valley Lusatia”, which summarizes the main points of criticism of the proposed designation of the whole of Lausitz region in Germany as a so-called “acceleration valley”.

„In the name of climate protection, trees and participation rights are to be cut down, in some cases for fossil fuel projects. This is not what the EU wants to promote with the Net Zero Industry Act,” says René Schuster from the Cottbus environmental group.