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To be more ambitious. 0ur berlin correspondent, damien mcguinness, explains more. just over 400,000 people voted no but slightly more than that voted yes. so what that means is more people voted yes than no, saying they wanted a climate neutral berlin by 2030, but not enough to make this law, and that's because of the things about this referendum is, you needed 25% of the entire berlin electorate in order for this referendum to be valid and binding and to go straight into berlin law. that did not happen, so they missed the target. campaigners say they're disappointed but they say this is just ...

If you're a car driver living on the edge of the city and you need that car, it's not what you want. so, it was quite a divisive campaign and a divisive issue, really dividing the city in two between green voting young people in the centre and a lot of conservative, sometimes older people on the city edges or in the outer boroughs who really didn't agree with the referendum at all and don't agree with the entire issue. so it's, on one hand, a big cultural divide within berlin, but also a matter of money, and berlin's political leaders said achieving this target so quickly and so soon would hav...