Lisa Badum | |
|---|---|
 Lisa Badum in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1983-10-02)2 October 1983 (age 42) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Bamberg |
Lisa Hildegard Badum (born 2 October 1983) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens. She has been amember of theBundestag since the2017 German federal election, after two failed attempts.[1]
From 2003 to 2010, Badum studiedpolitical science at theUniversity of Bamberg.[2]
From 1990 to 1994, Badum attended the Anna primary school in Forchheim.[3] After graduating from the local Ehrenbürg-Gymnasium in 2003, she began studyingpolitical science at theOtto Friedrich University of Bamberg in the same year, which she successfully completed in 2010.[3][4][5] She spent two semesters of her studies inThessaloniki,Greece.[3][4]Badum is aRoman Catholic.[6]
Badum joinedBündnis 90/Die Grünen in 2005[7] via the Green University Group and Ursula Sowa, a member of the Bundestag. She has been a district councillor for thedistrict of Forchheim since May 2008.[8] She has been a member of the extended state executive committee since 2012 and a spokesperson for the state working group for women since 2014.[6]From 2010 to autumn 2013, Badum worked as a research assistant in the constituency office of MPUwe Kekeritz inFürth.[6] From 2012 until her election to the Bundestag in 2017, she worked in citizen energy at the green energy supplier Naturstrom.[4]From 2016 to 2018, she was district chairwoman of the Greens in Upper Franconia.[9]In December 2008, she was nominated as a Green direct candidate for the2009 Bundestag election forconstituency 236 (Bamberg-Forchheim). She was elected 15th on the Bavarianstate list but failed to enter the Bundestag.[6][10] She failed to do so in the 2013 federal election, coming 13th on the state list.[6] Badum has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2017 elections. She stood for election in theBamberg constituency and was elected via her party's statewide list.[10]
In parliament, Badum has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. She is a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy.[6][8] She is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on climate policy.[11][12]
In the2021 Bundestag elections, she re-entered theGerman Bundestag in 8th place on the state list.[13] She is chairwoman of the Committee on Climate Action and Energy[14] and a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[6] Since April, Badum has been chairwoman of the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy.[15] Since October 2021, Badum has been President of the Association of German-Greek Societies.[16] She is also the founder and Chair of the Parliamentary Group for Brewing Culture.[17][18][19] Since 2022, she has been chairing the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy.[20]
For Badum, the fight against theclimate crisis is a global and intergenerational challenge.[5] Her particular focus is on the socially just implementation of theParis climate targets, whereby she sees an ambitiouscoal phase-out plan and the promotion of renewable energies as decisive steps.[5] She criticised the coal phase-out decided by thegrand coalition and called for more transparency and a more timely phase-out.[21] Badum is also involved in gender equality,[22]climate money,[23] and theClimate Protection Act issues.[24]
In addition to her work at the federal level, Badum is committed to a fair energy transition at the local level and emphasises the close connection between climate protection and local design.[5] One of her main focuses here was on the abolition of the 10-H rule inBavaria, as she believes that this makes the expansion of wind energy more difficult.[25] Badum is also committed to the conversion of part of theSteigerwald Nature Park into a national park.[26][27] At European level, Badum is in favour of the most ambitious climate protection package possible to meet the 1.5-degree target and a comprehensiveCO2 border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).[28] She spoke out against the inclusion of nuclear energy and gas in theEU taxonomy.[29]In a global context, Badum warns of the consequences of the climate crisis,[30] which exacerbates existing crises and social injustice[31] and calls for more climate justice.[31] Badum criticises the offer byGerman ChancellorOlaf Scholz to supportSenegal in the planned exploitation ofgas fields off its coast.[32]
She is a member and on the board of the Steigerwald National Park Association.[27] 2014, she has been a member of the board of the association ‘Bürgerenergie Bayern e. V.’, which campaigns for the expansion ofrenewable energies through a citizen-centred energy transition[6][7] and for the decoupling ofeconomic growth and greenhouse gases as well as for aCO2 price.[33]
