They received national and international attention by participating in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in March 2021.
[6] Among other things, it demands a CO2 tax of 195 euros per tonne[7] and social compensation via "climate money" paid out to everyone.
[10] The federal Klimaliste political party participated in the 2024 European Parliament election and had a membership of 234 as of the same year.
The Klimaliste Berlin does not see itself as a single-issue party, because the climate issue extends to many areas.
The general vision is based on the concepts of climate justice and the donut economy.
[36] In Lower Saxony, climate activists independent of each other stood for the local elections in September: In June 2020, the association Klimaliste RLP e. V. was founded.
In September 2020, the Klimaliste Baden-Württemberg, the first climate list to give itself the status of a party, was founded in order to be able to run in state elections.
[54] Through these two state elections in March 2021, the movement achieved nationwide to international attention for the first time.
[2][3] In parallel, the Klimaliste Hessen, the first association for local elections at the state level, was formed.
[22] Climate activists criticise Bündnis 90/Die Grünen for not being climate-consistent enough, especially in terms of the 1.5 degree target.
In general, the top candidate for Rhineland-Palatinate saw "no programmatic and content expertise" for the "vision of a sustainable future."
[58] One example of concrete dissatisfaction is the continued construction of the A 49 motorway through Dannenröder Forst despite Green government participation in Hesse.
[61] On the very evening of the election, a public debate began about the extent to which this would have prevented a Green-Red coalition.
[62][63] Annalena Baerbock and Cornelia Lüddemann independently expressed themselves thus: on the one hand, the climate issue would be brought more into focus by the Klimalisten.
This was compared with the presidential election in the United States in 2000 in which Ralph Nader (Green Party) stood.