Lisa Badum

From 2003 to 2010, Badum studied political science at the University 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 studying political science at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg in the same year, which she successfully completed in 2010.^[3][4][5] She spent two semesters of her studies in Thessaloniki, Greece.^[3][4] Badum is a Roman Catholic.^[6]

Badum joined Bündnis 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 the district 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 MP Uwe Kekeritz in Fürth.^[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 the 2009 Bundestag election for constituency 236 (Bamberg-Forchheim). She was elected 15th on the Bavarian state 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 German Bundestag since the 2017 elections. She stood for election in the Bamberg 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 the 2021 Bundestag elections, she re-entered the German 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 the climate crisis is a global and intergenerational challenge.^[5] Her particular focus is on the socially just implementation of the Paris climate targets, whereby she sees an ambitious coal phase-out plan and the promotion of renewable energies as decisive steps.^[5] She criticised the coal phase-out decided by the grand 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 the Climate 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 in Bavaria, as she believes that this makes the expansion of wind energy more difficult.^[25] Badum is also committed to the conversion of part of the Steigerwald 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 comprehensive CO2 border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).^[28] She spoke out against the inclusion of nuclear energy and gas in the EU 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 by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to support Senegal in the planned exploitation of gas 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 of renewable energies through a citizen-centred energy transition^[6][7] and for the decoupling of economic growth and greenhouse gases as well as for a CO2 price.^[33]

• 2015: Helene Weber Prize for her commitment to local and equal opportunities policy.^[34]

• German-Israeli Society, Member of the Board (since 2022)^[35]
• German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), Member
• Terre des Femmes, Member