Climate-just policy can also promote integration and would have a multiplier effect in communities. To achieve this, existing barriers would first need to be removed. "Protecting borders and the climate" — this was the slogan adopted by the turquoise-green federal government at the start of its term in office, expressing its political goals: progressive climate policy combined with repressive migration policy. In combining the "best of both worlds", it aimed to crack down on climate sins just as hard as on "illegal migrants".

Until now, despite this discursive convergence, both areas have been kept strictly separate: asylum and border policy for the turquoise side, ecological issues for the Greens on the other...

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