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Greta Thunberg shortly before the federal election in Berlin: Huge “Fridays for Future” protests all over Germany

2021-09-24T04:14:48.013Z


Shortly before the general election, Fridays for Future mobilized. The climate strike is taking place in more than 350 German locations. And worldwide.


Shortly before the general election, Fridays for Future mobilized.

The climate strike is taking place in more than 350 German locations.

And worldwide.

  • Shortly before the general election, the climate strike is taking place in more than 350 locations in Germany.

  • The climate movement Fridays for Future has called for demonstrations and rallies around the world.

  • The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will take part in the demonstration in Berlin.

  • All information about the climate strike in our news ticker.

Germany - The general election is coming up - and the climate crisis is the sword of Damocles that hovers over it. Two days before the cut-off date on Sunday (September 26th), “Fridays for Future” creates a good atmosphere again. In more than 350 locations in Germany, people are called to take part in demonstrations and rallies and to mobilize against the climate crisis.

The demonstrations in Germany are part of a global climate strike in more than a thousand cities.

According to a report by the

Tagesspiegel

, Greta Thunberg will take part in a demonstration in Berlin.

According to the newspaper, the Swedish activist stressed that the protest was not intended as an advertisement for any particular party.

“We are not lobbyists for the Greens.” In Germany, “no politician, no politician, no party treats the climate crisis like an emergency”.

For example, a coal phase-out in 2038 will come too late.

Climate strike shortly before the federal election: Greta Thunberg comes to Berlin

According to Fridays for Future, it is the eighth global climate strike.

Their central demand is to limit global warming to a maximum of one and a half degrees Celsius, which corresponds to the goal of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

For this purpose, the emission of greenhouse gases should be reduced as quickly as possible and in a "socially acceptable way".

The German climate activist Luisa Neubauer also complained in the

Tagesspiegel

that there was too little commitment to climate protection from all German parties.

However, the topic is playing a significantly larger role in the current election campaign than it was two years ago.

"So we can already see where we as the climate movement have brought the parties and what has changed," she told the newspaper.

The United Nations had only warned in a new report on Thursday that the 1.5 degree target could only be achieved with drastic measures.

This was published by UN organizations together with scientific partners and states that climate change and its effects are accelerating.

The short-term decrease in CO2 emissions due to the corona pandemic in the past year has not changed that.

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Source: merkur

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