predetermining public budgets. The measures set out in the Climate Action Plan 2050 will be funded from the individual budgets when the relevant federal budget is drawn up. It is also crucial that electricity and other forms of energy remain affordable to avoid compromising economic development and social participation. With this in mind, we have a particular responsibility when implementing the Energiewende to create a regulatory framework for our energy and climate policy which guarantees affordability and a fair distribution of costs. The success of climate action depends crucially on the acceptance of necessary measures and on broad-scale public participation. The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) therefore set up a comprehensive ex ante dialogue and participation process in order to give representatives of the Länder (federal states) and local authorities, business and industry and civil society associations, and the general public the opportunity to play an active role in developing the Climate Action Plan 2050 and make suggestions for specific measures. We will continue the dialogue with the affected sectors and their businesses, the trade unions their workforces belongs to, associations and civil society on the basis of the Climate Action Plan 2050 as it now stands. The Climate Action Plan 2050 implements this modernisation strategy on three levels: