A climate-resilient city needs living ecosystems. Buildings, streets and squares offer enormous potential as a location for plants. We want old trees to be preserved and, if necessary, replaced immediately, new trees to be planted and green islands to be created to provide cooling and shading. In urban areas, only insect-friendly, heat- and drought-tolerant plants are to be grown. Together with the citizens, we want to make gravel gardens and sealed front gardens bloom again. In this way, we want to create liveable meeting places for all city dwellers.

Instead of grey walls, we want green lungs that enliven the cityscape. Greening buildings reduces energy consumption, cools rooms and is part of the sponge city concept. Too many roofs and facades in our city are still unused areas. They can store rainwater, improve air quality and provide habitat for animals. We are committed to ensuring that new buildings in the future consistently use roof greening combined with photovoltaics. A funding programme for green roofs, facades and courtyards is intended to help homeowners unbureaucratically and provide financial support.

A city can host more than just people. Together we make Wiesbaden a place where we can live well with animals. We are committed to the targeted integration of nesting opportunities for birds such as falcons and walled sailors as well as quarters for bats in new buildings and renovations. Bees and other insects also need habitat in the city. Nest boxes, wildflower meadows and waterholes provide valuable help for ‘animal life’ and protect the local fauna and flora. We want to launch model projects for animal-friendly construction and support builders and garden owners in receiving low-threshold advice on how to create habitats with simple means.

Net-zero is our goal. In the outdoor area, unsealed areas are the basis for food production, biodiversity, fresh air generation and natural landscape. In the city, open soils serve the much-needed protection against heat and flooding.

When developing and building new residential and commercial areas, the greatest possible avoidance of ecological risks is our top priority, and we compensate for negative effects on ecosystems. For every additional square meter of inner-city built-up area, we want the city of Wiesbaden to create vertical greenery to compensate for the climate function.

In the past, the hot springs ensured Wiesbaden's reputation as a world spa town, today the water in its diversity serves all of our well-being, because water protection is life protection. The necessary conversion to a sponge city not only improves climate resilience, but also promotes the preservation of local drinking water supplies and ensures the use of rainwater in our city.

We want to preserve the Schiersteiner Hafen as intact still waters and that the numerous ‘streams’ be brought to light in the city and that they be renaturalised where possible.

We are committed to ensuring that the city acquires land in order to give space to the natural rivers. Drinking water fountains and water playgrounds offer young and old a refreshing city break. The quality of our water is very important to us. We are strongly committed to the construction of further cleaning stages in the main and Biebrich wastewater treatment plant for the clarification of wastewater from residues from pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and industrial chemicals as well as microplastics.

Unnecessary lighting is not only a waste of energy, it also harms the flora and fauna. Insects, birds and bats suffer massively from artificial light. We therefore want to provide animal-friendly lighting for public areas and buildings. Energy-efficient and demand-oriented use of light ensures naturally dark habitats. By using, for example, warm white light, time-controlled luminaires and light switch-offs, people's need for safety is also taken into account.

We want the city to inform citizens about the effects of light pollution on wildlife, people and the environment through its public relations work, thus giving them a new view of the nightlife of wildlife and its significance.

Wiesbaden and its typical surroundings on the edge of the Taunus offer an unmistakable landscape. Orchards, forests, open valleys, brook meadows and the lively banks of the Rhine offer a variety of different habitats.

Significant traces from Celtic and Roman times as well as from the Middle Ages and the Nassauian period of the 19th century can be found in our landscape. Awareness and commitment to their preservation promote the bond with our beautiful home.

Wiesbaden's protected landscape areas are green oases and ecological treasures of our city. They not only provide a recreational space for us humans, but are also indispensable habitats for numerous animal and plant species. The ecological balance of these valuable areas is increasingly threatened – by illegal development and commercial use, as well as other interventions in nature and landscape. We are committed to a healthy balance between use and preservation and show citizens our green wealth. That's why we want the city of Wiesbaden to buy land and restore the livelihoods of our native animal and plant species.

We continue to support the establishment of a UNESCO biosphere region in the districts of Rheingau-Taunus and Main-Taunus as well as in the entire city of Wiesbaden.

Our city has grown, so the space for nature and recreation must also grow. Following the successful model of the Frankfurt Green Belt, we want to create and legally secure a coherent Green Ring around Wiesbaden's city centre. Areas are networked with each other so that a protected biotope network is created. Flowering urban oases and migratory corridors for wildlife – instead of former industrial areas and abandoned land – are practiced species protection. But the Green Ring should not only serve nature. A continuous cycle and footpath offers new recreational opportunities for everyone. Particularly important to us is the involvement of citizens: Sponsorships, urban gardening projects and school rooms are to be created. In this way, the Green Ring connects our urban society and at the same time promotes environmental education.

The already developed Rhine-Main-Ufer concept is to be included in the green belt concept, so that we revive the old blue-green veins between the Rhine and Taunus. For a successful implementation of the concept, we also plan to bring the Bundesgartenschau to Wiesbaden. The city of Wiesbaden can use the associated funding as a great opportunity to make Wiesbaden more lively together with the citizens and thus place the city at the centre of national and international attention.

Securing our protected landscape areas is a task for society as a whole. We want to increase awareness of the value of these areas and actively involve the people of Wiesbaden. Through information and nature experiences as well as civil society projects, joie de vivre and a new understanding of our environment worth protecting can arise.

In particular, we want to counteract the littering of the city and nature and make Wiesbaden a clean, livable city together.

We Greens are consistently committed to protecting against aircraft and road noise. This includes in particular the noise caused by Frankfurt Airport and the US Airfield Erbenheim. Aircraft and road noise make people sick and impair their quality of life.

With the development of a soil management concept, we have an effective tool to protect, sustainably develop and manage land. Green areas and climate protection areas will be preserved. Optimized land use and recycling is the guarantee for the net-0 land consumption defined at federal level by 2050 at the latest. After reaching net 0, the city enters a land-use circular economy. The use of open spaces and valuable soils is reduced by a proactive, active soil policy.

Much has already been done with great commitment for sustainable education, especially for children and young people, and want the city of Wiesbaden to further expand this successful program. One example is the Wiesbaden GNI Network as a voluntary association of associations, foundations, institutions and initiatives.

In 2027, we want a new in-house operation from the waste disposal companies ELW and the Grünflächenamt to start in Wiesbaden, creating many synergies – we have already set the course for this in 2025.

The ‘Bäche ans Licht’ programme has already started and is being implemented at Sedanplatz. Likewise, the Wellritz Valley and other Bachauen were networked and designed close to nature and made accessible to citizens for recreation.

60 refill drinking water stations have already been installed in the city centre and we want to push this further. Construction of the water playground has started on the Reisinger site and the ‘Play-Fountain’ on Luisenplatz has been a great success. Currently, Alsace Square is being transformed into a green, cool and shady place to stay.

With various projects, the city of Wiesbaden promotes the richness of species in the city. The ‘Gießbaden’ project supports neighbourhoods in the care of tree discs. Other projects include the Wild Meadows, the Biodiversity Week, the Biodiversity Concept and the Sustainability Dialogue.

The urban programme ÖKOPROFIT combines sustainable, resource-conserving economy and operational success with an ecological sense of responsibility.

Cemeteries are gaining in importance as green spaces. They are not only places for mourning and remembrance, but also oases for recreation and important habitats for plants and animals. They are also of outstanding importance in climate adaptation as natural refuges.

Together with the support program of the state of Hesse, the city of Wiesbaden supports private real estate owners financially and with know-how in house and yard greening.