LÜTZERATH (dpa-AFX) - Climate activist Luisa Neubauer has sharply criticized the Greens for the decision to evict the village of Lützerath, which they supported. "The Greens are making a big mistake with this," she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. She accused the Greens of a "calculated undermining of the Paris climate goals." They even supported the "subterranean narrative" that the climate movement in Luetzerath endangers social peace.

The Greens form the state government in North Rhine-Westphalia together with the CDU. The Green Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Mona Neubaur, defends the decision to mine Lützerath by saying that the coal phase-out has been brought forward by eight years, from 2038 to 2030, and that five other villages in the Rhenish lignite mining region will be saved from destruction.

Neubauer reproached the Greens, however, saying that the coal lying under Lützerath was in fact not needed at all. He said that the Greens had fallen for false figures from the "notoriously untrustworthy coal company" RWE. "The deal between the Greens and RWE (coal phase-out comes earlier, but a village goes) is supposed to be a fair "compromise" that the climate movement must like." But that is a completely distorted portrayal, he said, because the basic compromise to which the government must adhere, even according to the Federal Constitutional Court, is the Paris climate agreement. Studies show, however, that Germany can only comply with the Paris climate agreement if the coal lying under Lützerath is not used. Neubauer's conclusion: "The deal is less a compromise than a break with Paris."

He said the earlier coal phase-out was being taken ad absurdum by "cramming the period to 2030 with coal burning in such a way that more CO2 is produced than without a deal." He said the Greens were trying to "take the broad alliances that understand the importance of Lützerath for fools."

Neubauer called for defending the site near Erkelenz in the Rhineland "with all our might." "Whoever wants social peace and climate protection, politically advocates a moratorium on the eviction of Lützerath - or joins us in defending the village."/cd/DP/ngu