Overview
- The citizen group BaumEntscheid, which issued its warning Tuesday, said missing budget releases and staff threaten the law’s timeline in what it called a false start.
- Environment Senator Ute Bonde said Berlin has appointed a five-member Scientific Advisory Board and plans to send a delayed concept to the state parliament in June.
- Bonde acknowledged the law’s May 21 deadline will not be met, though she rejected claims of a broader slowdown and said the Senate will act shortly.
- The law requires Berlin to reach more than one million trees by 2040, with planting costs reported at about €3.2 billion.
- The first six months were supposed to reform the city’s tree-protection rules and stand up an implementation project and advisory-board office, steps that enable planting schedules, street cooling, and rainwater work that residents would feel in daily life.