This law's goal is to guarantee that both national and European targets for climate protection are satisfied. Additionally, it is meant to help Germany's pledge to work toward greenhouse gas neutrality as a long-term objective by 2050 at the UN climate summit in New York on September 23, 2019. After the federal government submitted its climate program for 2030, it was adopted.Notably, the law establishes a national carbon tax with a starting rate of 25 euros per tonne of CO2 in 2021.The Bundestag adopted a change on June 24th, 2021, moving the carbon neutrality target from 2050 to 2045.