page_title: Barbara Hendricks (politician)
section_title: Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, 2013–2018
hierarchical_section_title: Barbara Hendricks (politician) / Political career / Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, 2013–2018
caption_attribution_description: Germany:German Federal Minister for the Environment, Barbara Hendricks with Conclusions to the Paris Agreement and the World Climate Conference
context_page_description: Barbara Anne Hendricks is a German politician and member of the SPD party.
  From 2013 until 2018, Hendrick served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. From 2007 to 2013, she was Federal Treasurer of the SPD, and from 1998 to 2007 she was Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of Finance.
context_section_description: From 17 December 2013, Hendricks served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in the third cabinet of Angela Merkel.
  Hendricks led the German delegations to the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima and the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. In August 2015, she was part of Chancellor Merkel’s delegation to the first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and Brazil in Brasília.
  In early 2015, Hendricks proposed a new draft law that imposes an outright ban on fracking for shale gas in the following years and only allow scientific test drilling under strict conditions to assess the risks and environmental impact. The resulting legislation that passed the cabinet in April 2015 softened her line somewhat, restricting fracking until 2019, after which commercial fracking could only go forward after passing various tough regulatory hurdles. The legislation, however, allows fracking for deep-lying or "tight" gas, a technology that has been used for decades in Germany.
  By early 2016, Hendricks entered in talks with various stakeholders on drawing up a plan over how to exit coal-fired power generation in Germany, later named 'Climate Action Plan 2050'.
caption: at 2016 UNFCCC Conference COP22 in Marrakech (Africa)
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