In mehr als 180 Ländern wurde am 24.10. - dem Globalen Klimaaktionstag von 350.org - für ein faires und gerechtes Abkommen in Kopenhagen demonstriert
Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009
Kiel und die ganze Welt für mehr Klimaschutz
In mehr als 180 Ländern wurde am 24.10. - dem Globalen Klimaaktionstag von 350.org - für ein faires und gerechtes Abkommen in Kopenhagen demonstriert
Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2009
Kabinett unter Wasser
Obwohl der Präsident der Malediven bereits durch den Aufkauf von Ländern in Indien für seine Bevölkerung Schlagzeilen gemacht hat, schafft er es, auch dies wieder zu toppen:
Die letzte Kabinettssitzung ist sprichwörtlich ins Wasser gefallen, um die Welt auf die Problematik des Klimawandels aufmerksam zu machen. Das Kabinett tagte kurzerhand unter Wasser und unterzeichnete dort einen Aufruf an die UN-Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen.
Die Taucheranzüge wurden im Anschluss signiert und sollen zum Schutz der Korallenriffe versteigert werden...
Die letzte Kabinettssitzung ist sprichwörtlich ins Wasser gefallen, um die Welt auf die Problematik des Klimawandels aufmerksam zu machen. Das Kabinett tagte kurzerhand unter Wasser und unterzeichnete dort einen Aufruf an die UN-Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen.
Die Taucheranzüge wurden im Anschluss signiert und sollen zum Schutz der Korallenriffe versteigert werden...
Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009
ACT NOW - empower yourself
During the UNFCCC intersessional in Bonn in June 50 young activists came together for a "train the trainer” seminar by Young Friends of the Earth. In different groups (media, action and policy) they were trained to train other young people. In regional groups they organized their own conferences for October 8th to 11th.
In Berlin 55 young people from Germany and central and eastern Europe gathered to share their experience and visions. In talks they got the basics of climate change politics and worked in workgroups on policy, media and action. On Friday they were joined by politicians from the EU parliament, the german Ministry of Environment and the UK embassy to discuss with them. They young activists got the chance to lobby the politicians and get an insight impression on how politics is working to tackle climate change.
But only talking doesn’t change anything. So the action group started to plan their own little action to go onto the streets and wake up the people.
So we have been out on the streets of Berlin on Saturday. A big ticking clock symbolized time running out. Different subjects and dangerous effects of climate change were announced while politicians in suits and lobbyist groups like the industry just stood around the giant clock just doing useless BlaBlaBla-talk. They just watched time ticking away securing their cut and doing nothing. At 5 minutes to high noon all people on the street were asked to ACT NOW and take action.
On the crowded streets this action draw a lot of attention and a lot of flyers were given out to inform on the upcoming negotiations in Copenhagen. The people were very interested and a lot of discussions were started.
The conference ended with a lot of newly engaged activists spreading the word in their towns and countries. The goal is clear – we demand a strong, fair and binding treaty in Copenhagen.
No more time for useless talk – Time is up to ACT NOW!
Action during the Act now regional conference in Berlin (if you have problems with the HD-video just turn off the HD)
Cheat neutral - offsetting saves the world
Cheat neutral – without additional pain and suffering
Cheating on your partner usually causes grief and suffering. But it doesn’t have to be like this. Now you can offset the pain by paying someone else to be faithful. This way the amount of cheating on the world is limited to the current level and the total balance is even. We can make this world a better place. Register at www.cheatneutral.com and find someone to be faithful for you so you don’t have to be. Or even better – if you are faithful already let others pay you for that.
Cheating neutral – 12 minutes that are worth the time.
A simple solution that is already working today
This is not a new solution. We already do it with our carbon emissions. Europe for example wants to reduce its emissions by 20-30% until 2020. But reducing carbon emissions means you have to invest into expensive clean technologies or even worse – change our precious lifestyle.
Since this would reduce our wealth and the money we can make here, politicians figured out a way to limit the efforts that have to be undertaken by our companies (and us as consumers) – we can go on like nothing happens. Companies just give money to developing countries and reduce emissions there. That is much cheaper than develop new technologies and reduce the carbon at home. This is called carbon offsetting.
Offsetting means cheating on developing countries
While offsetting might work for reduction targets of 20-30%, it won’t work if we take into account that we will have to reduce our emissions globally by 85% until 2050. To reach that goal we have to reduce our global emissions dramatically and also the developing countries have to reduce their emissions. If the wealthy industrialized countries use all cheap possibilities in the global south today, the developing countries won’t have chance to reduce their emissions later because all the cheaper and easier ways are all ready used to brighten our statistics. Once again we pretend to help them and instead we only ensure our way of living and our markets to expand.
For the fight against global warming we need new and green technologies. If the companies have the possibility to get the carbon reduction by paying a little bit of money they won’t invest into new technologies. We just buy some time (which we don’t have) and don’t solve the problem itself. That is everything but not sustainable.
The industrialized countries lived for decades off the cheap and dirty energy we produce. We already used up more than our fair share of the worlds resources. The only reason the world didn’t collapse before is, that there are still billions of people living under poorest and simplest conditions.
Instead of using backdoors for our responsibilities we have to invent new and clean technologies, reduce our own carbon emissions and pay for our climate debts by giving poor countries knowledge, money and technology to hold them from making the same mistakes we did.
Cheating on your partner usually causes grief and suffering. But it doesn’t have to be like this. Now you can offset the pain by paying someone else to be faithful. This way the amount of cheating on the world is limited to the current level and the total balance is even. We can make this world a better place. Register at www.cheatneutral.com and find someone to be faithful for you so you don’t have to be. Or even better – if you are faithful already let others pay you for that.
Cheating neutral – 12 minutes that are worth the time.
A simple solution that is already working today
This is not a new solution. We already do it with our carbon emissions. Europe for example wants to reduce its emissions by 20-30% until 2020. But reducing carbon emissions means you have to invest into expensive clean technologies or even worse – change our precious lifestyle.
Since this would reduce our wealth and the money we can make here, politicians figured out a way to limit the efforts that have to be undertaken by our companies (and us as consumers) – we can go on like nothing happens. Companies just give money to developing countries and reduce emissions there. That is much cheaper than develop new technologies and reduce the carbon at home. This is called carbon offsetting.
Offsetting means cheating on developing countries
While offsetting might work for reduction targets of 20-30%, it won’t work if we take into account that we will have to reduce our emissions globally by 85% until 2050. To reach that goal we have to reduce our global emissions dramatically and also the developing countries have to reduce their emissions. If the wealthy industrialized countries use all cheap possibilities in the global south today, the developing countries won’t have chance to reduce their emissions later because all the cheaper and easier ways are all ready used to brighten our statistics. Once again we pretend to help them and instead we only ensure our way of living and our markets to expand.
For the fight against global warming we need new and green technologies. If the companies have the possibility to get the carbon reduction by paying a little bit of money they won’t invest into new technologies. We just buy some time (which we don’t have) and don’t solve the problem itself. That is everything but not sustainable.
The industrialized countries lived for decades off the cheap and dirty energy we produce. We already used up more than our fair share of the worlds resources. The only reason the world didn’t collapse before is, that there are still billions of people living under poorest and simplest conditions.
Instead of using backdoors for our responsibilities we have to invent new and clean technologies, reduce our own carbon emissions and pay for our climate debts by giving poor countries knowledge, money and technology to hold them from making the same mistakes we did.
Freitag, 4. September 2009
Bis 10. September Anmeldung für "Act Now!"-Konferenz
Ihr interessiert euch für das Thema Klima, seid zwischen 18 und 29 Jahre alt und würdet gerne mehr dazu wissen und Mobilisierungs-Aktionen durchführen?
Dann bewerbt euch für die Jugend-Regionalkonferenz des "Act Now!"-Teams! Diese finden in Malmö, Toulouse, Dublin und natürlich auch in Berlin statt.
Die Teilnehmer werden in den Bereichen Medien, Aktionen und Politik geschult, um zurück zuhause Aktionen zur Mobilisierung für Kopenhagen durchzuführen und die Bevölkerung für das Thema Klimawandel zu sensibilisieren.
Bewerben könnt ihr euch HIER.
Dann bewerbt euch für die Jugend-Regionalkonferenz des "Act Now!"-Teams! Diese finden in Malmö, Toulouse, Dublin und natürlich auch in Berlin statt.
Die Teilnehmer werden in den Bereichen Medien, Aktionen und Politik geschult, um zurück zuhause Aktionen zur Mobilisierung für Kopenhagen durchzuführen und die Bevölkerung für das Thema Klimawandel zu sensibilisieren.
Bewerben könnt ihr euch HIER.
Freitag, 31. Juli 2009
YOUR SIGNATURE for climate refugees
hey everybody in the world: finally we've got the webpage of a.wohlstands-merkel in english!
please sign and ask angela merkel that way to ensure that environmental refugees are covered by the geneva refugee convention, that industrialised countries reduce their carbon emissions domesticly by 40% by 2020 (and 100% by 2050) and that rich countries pay their climate debts!
at the act now-regional conference in berlin (october 8th to 11th) we want to hand over the signatures to the ministry for economic co-operation and delevopement and until then we need a whole bunch of signatures... so please sign and forward this mail to every mailing list you know!
please sign and ask angela merkel that way to ensure that environmental refugees are covered by the geneva refugee convention, that industrialised countries reduce their carbon emissions domesticly by 40% by 2020 (and 100% by 2050) and that rich countries pay their climate debts!
at the act now-regional conference in berlin (october 8th to 11th) we want to hand over the signatures to the ministry for economic co-operation and delevopement and until then we need a whole bunch of signatures... so please sign and forward this mail to every mailing list you know!
Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009
Montag, 27. Juli 2009
Chaos in Kiel: neue Atomaufsicht
Am Montag letzter Woche wollte der Ministerpräsident Schleswig-Holsteins - Peter-Harry Carstensen (CDU) - den Landtag nach Streitigkeiten mit dem Koalitionspartner SPD auflösen. Eine Zweidrittelmehrheit ist aufgrund einer Ablehnung seitens der SPD dafür allerdings nicht zusammengekommen.
Daraufhin wurde auch der Antrag der SPD auf sofortige Stilllegung des Atomkraftwerkes Krümmel vertagt - mit Zustimmung der Grünen. Noch am selbigen Tag kündigte Carstensen allen sozialdemokratischen Ministern und ersetze diese durch Christdemokraten, wie zum Beispiel Frau Trauernicht (SPD, Sozialministerin, ebenfalls zuständig für Atomaufsicht) durch unseren Landwirtschafts- und Umweltminister Christian von Boetticher (CDU). Dieser zeigte sich selbst sehr überrascht, kenne er sich doch besser in europapolitischen Fragen aus, als in Fragen der nuklearen Sicherheit.
Doch am Donnerstag, nachdem die Mehrheit des Landtages sich bei der Vertrauensfrage enthalten bzw. Carstensen das Vertrauen abgesprochen hat, verhielt sich der neue Sozialminister Schleswig-Holsteins sehr christdemokratisch: er sprach sich leider - anders als Frau Trauernicht dies getan hätte - gegen die sofortige Stilllegung des AKWs Krümmel aus. Nur zu einer Tat konnte er die komissarische Regierung verpflichten: einstimmig forderten sie Carstensen (!!!!) auf, dem AKW-Betreiber Vattenfall eine Rüge auszusprechen... Nur kann man auf diese Weise leider keine wirksamen politischen Entscheidungen treffen.
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