Germany

Stop CO ² NOW

 Small organizations federate against climate change

“Climate Alliance” A German confederation that is concerned with  their climate changes and current energy politics.

Climate change. The environmental topic number one. About one first step of an oppositional acting to ecological politics in Germany and possibilities all citizens have.

Climate change is nowadays a topic we cannot conceal anymore. Every country is forced to develop an effective concept in responsibility to our society and nature.

Of course, there are some ideas and plans for the following years, but international governments are still not willing enough to create concepts, which faces the facts and which would cost all people a little effort, including our politicians.

Everybody has to make a contribution for a successful climate change and consequently for a lasting healthy ecosystem. Especially big industrial countries like Germany need to react.

A German confederation called the “Climate Alliance” made a first step into the right direction. Hundred organisations confederated and work with expressed written ambitions concerning climate change.

The main aspect of this company is to act in a practical way to build therefore an opposition to many theoretical but not realistic convertible intentions of the government.

The framework of member organisations is wide-area. Organisations from churches, development- and environmental organisations to trade unions, consumer protection organisations and youth associations to the point of anti-globalisation organisations and other groupings are willing to act for climate change.

One main problem in Germany is the CO² emission, which counts at present twice as much in relation to the worldwide average per capita. The political intention to build new coal-fired power stations does not support these plans.Far from it! It prevents the ambitions German politicians should have.

Establishing global climate activity day  in Germany

Regarding this background the “Climate Alliance” points out several deficiencies concerning German climate and energy politics. It is one first aim to establish one global climate activity day in Germany to advocate oneself in climate protection.

This kind of climate day takes place since 2005, mostly contemporaneous to the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Another focus are activities against the development of new coal-fired power stations.

In contrast to alternative energy sources coal- fired power stations eject much more CO². Even a latest brown coal power station ejects twice as much as a gas- fired power plant. It is truly not easy to be successful in this complex and challenging aim.

But organisations like “Climate Alliance” can only exist if enough companies and organisations and even single persons become active and sustain it together.

This in turn paves  a way for an effective and lasting route of  tackling climate change.  Hence German politics that the aim for successful  climate change policies at present ask for more dedication.

Katja Möhl is 25 years old and grew up in Darmstadt, a city in Germany close to Frankfurt. After finishing school she studied cultural, theatre, film- and media sciences at the university in Klagenfurt and at the university in Vienna, Austria. The last year she graduated at the “school of photography” in Vienna and worked for several internships, like for example for the austrian television ORF or the bavarian radiostation “BR Klassik.” Since August 2009 Katja started the Erasmus Mundus Master programme in “Journalism and Media within Globalisation” in Aarhus, Denmark.