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Status: 09/25/2020 4:12 pm – Hello Lower Saxony
“Fridays for Future” required numerous campaigns in many places, including Hannover.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Lower Saxony on Friday for the weather: the “Fridays for Future” movement called the first global climate strike since the start of the corona pandemic. The largest protest event had been announced for Hannover, but there were significantly fewer people than expected. About 20,000 protesters were expected, according to the police, about 3,000 gathered. In a total of eight places they paralyzed the city ring in the city center, according to NDR 1 Lower Saxony. Speakers and music groups performed on stage. With the lockdown, the young activists wanted to remind Mayor Belit Onay (Greens) of his campaign promise to make Hannover city center car-free by 2022, according to organizers. “We are on strike under the sign of changing traffic and mobility,” said Zora Altensinger, local spokeswoman for “Fridays for Future.”
VIDEO: “Fridays for Future” setzt Klimaproteste fort (4 min)
Demos, human chains, bike strikes
“Fridays for Future” had announced campaigns for today at more than 60 locations in Lower Saxony and Bremen. According to the police, the organizers’ specifications were observed everywhere. According to the police, around 2,700 people gathered in Bremen. In Göttingen, therefore, there were about 2,500, in Osnabrück about 800. There were other demonstrations in, among other places Oldenburg and Braunschweig, as well as in smaller towns such as Visselhövede in the Rotenburg district, Sulingen (Diepholz district) and Stadthagen (Schaumburg district). In addition to the demonstrations, human chains, bicycle strikes and artistic activities were planned. In March, the movement moved its protests over the corona pandemic online.
VIDEO: Fridays for Future: Demos in Oldenburg (1 min)
Regional Bishop Meister Support
A prominent speaker encouraged climate protection activists at the rally in Hannover: Hannover Regional Bishop Ralf Meister. “You are signs of hope for a world that needs you so much,” said the evangelical theologian. The movement has to assert itself against the deniers and the ideologues of the conspiracy: “You have to keep getting in the way of the people so that the ignorant cannot help but recognize what you have recognized.” The bishop had already accompanied the climate strike last year. Two spokesmen for the movement were also invited to the synod of the Protestant regional church.
Demands of “Fridays for Future”
Climate activists at “Fridays for Future” advocate meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement and the 1.5 degree Celsius target. Specifically, they request on their website:
- Achieve “net zero” by 2035
- Carbon phase out by 2030
- 100% renewable energy supply by 2035
The “net zero” of greenhouse gases in this context means that the country should not produce more CO2 than nature or storage systems can compensate. To reach the 1.5 degree target, it is crucial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible, climate activists write. Therefore, the following measures should be taken immediately:
- The end of fossil fuel subsidies
- Turn off a quarter of coal power
- A CO2 tax on all greenhouse gas emissions. The price of greenhouse gas emissions should correspond to the costs that future generations will incur as a result. That is around 180 euros per ton of CO2.
Campaign of “ignorance of climate policy” for street demonstrations
The decision to protest during the corona pandemic was not easy, said activist Luisa Neubauer. But: “In view of the persistent ignorance of climate policy, we obviously want and have to take to the streets again.
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