Future Energy Youth Alliance

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The Youth Alliance Future Energy (JBZE) was an inter-association, open, self-administered network of youth organizations and individuals that existed from 2003 to 2019. The youth alliance for future energy was represented at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety with a youth committee and acted as a representative of the interests of the young generation with regard to the topic: “Climate and sustainable energy supply” on various political levels with a national and international orientation.

founding

The youth alliance for future energy was founded in 2003 in the context of the preparation for the Youth Energy Summit 2004 from May 28th to 31st, 2004, which took place in Bonn in the run-up to the International Conference for Renewable Energies Renewables 2004 .

organization

The organization of the network was the sole responsibility of the youth. BUNDjugend , the Federal Working Group Evangelical Youth in Rural Areas (BAG ejl), the Catholic rural youth movement in Germany (KLJB), the Friends of Nature Youth in Germany (NFJD) and the Nature Conservation Youth (NAJU) acted as supporting associations .

aims

According to its own description, the aim of the youth alliance was to ensure a "sustainable and generational" energy supply through 100% renewable energies . The JBZE called for a complete abandonment of fossil fuels , the end of the use of atomic energy and a rapid expansion of renewable energies. In addition, the youth alliance for future energy emphasized the importance of education for children and young people with regard to the sustainable use of energy and advocated the treatment of the topic of renewable energies, energy saving and energy efficiency as an important topic in schools and universities. The education of the young generation in questions of sustainable climate protection was also a central concern.

Projects

Representation of interests nationally

The youth committee, which was set up from the JZBE as a separate delegation in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, was a regular meeting of young people that took place in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . The aim was to present the positions and visions of the young people to politicians from the Federal Environment Ministry and to work with them on their implementation, but also to provide the opportunity to critically influence daily politics. The committee was established after the Youth Energy Summit 2004 in Bonn together with the then parliamentary state secretary Margareta Wolf and met for the first time on October 25, 2004. On April 24, 2005, State Secretary Wolf signed a cooperation agreement with the alliance. In this, young people were asked to campaign for an energy transition. The phrase "Bright future without atom" was created as the motto.

Wolf pointed out that the energy policy of the time affected the younger generation in particular and that it was therefore necessary to integrate young people into debates and decision-making processes. The task of the youth alliance in the context of the agreement was to convey the positions and projects of the young people, while Wolf promised to present government initiatives on the one hand and to convey the results of discussions to decision-makers in politics and business on the other. Educational measures on the subject of “renewable energies” are also to be stepped up. The youth alliance Zukunftsenergie was one of the organizers of the youth climate summit in Berlin in 2011 and issued a press release together with the Climate Alliance Germany . The youth alliance was also represented as an expert at the ethics council on the energy transition, which was appointed by Angela Merkel on the occasion of the reactor disaster in Fukushima. This took place on April 28, 2011 in the context of a televised and internet-broadcast public hearing. Representative Christian Schwarzer called for a quick shutdown of all nuclear power plants.

In the context of the energy transition, the alliance campaigned for a socially and environmentally compatible implementation in a project with the Naturefriends Youth. A wide range of conflict areas such as landscaping through new power lines, bird loss through wind turbines, rapeseed monocultures or high electricity prices were dealt with. A nationwide three-day youth conference in October 2013 in Berlin marked the end of the project. The exchange between young people, political decision-makers and experts should be the central theme.

Representation of interests internationally

The Youth Alliance for Future Energy was represented by a delegation at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen . The head of the delegation, Christian Schwarzer, saw the task of the alliance there in a contribution to the joint, internationally-oriented representation of interests of the young generation in the UN negotiations. Contacting delegates from numerous governments and non-governmental organizations in order to convey one's own “demands for a future worth living” was also named as a focus, as was contact with demonstrators of the Global Day of Action . A youth delegation from the JZBE was also present at the international climate negotiations in Bonn in 2012. The task of the youth delegation of the alliance was, on the one hand, to improve the internal networking of the young people in the climate negotiations, and on the other hand to contribute to preparing the complex events in the context of the negotiations for young people in a way that is suitable for the target group and communicating it to the outside world in an understandable manner. The alliance also intended to put the special position of young people on the scales and use unusual forms of protest to draw media attention to the climate problem and to present their own views “loud and honest” regardless of status or employer. The alliance saw itself here as the ones who would have to bear the consequences of a failed climate policy. A climate delegation that emerged from the Future Energy Youth Alliance was also represented at the climate conference in Marrakech. Representative Julius Schlumberger stated that the issue of intergenerational justice was the focus of the delegation. She wanted to work towards creating awareness of climate change among the young generation through education at an early stage and to make it clear that young people should be included in the negotiation process on climate change. The climate delegation supported a holistic approach to climate change. The interfaces between climate protection and human rights were a central point, which was expressed in the establishment of a task force on the subject, in the context of which the subject of climate refugees is dealt with.

Educational projects

The youth alliance offered information events in schools. For example, experiences from the climate summit in Copenhagen were communicated by Jutta Wiedding in the school area with other young people. The youth alliance acted as a point of contact for actors who wanted to work on topics related to climate protection with the younger generation, and as such was included in a collection of materials on the topic of climate protection under the logo: "Environmental Education in Bavaria", funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health explicitly mentioned.

Other important projects

The other important projects of the future energy youth alliance include a .:

  • the Global Village at the 2005 World Youth Day in Bonn
  • the Youth Energy Summit YES2004 and YES2006
  • the green electricity campaign "SHOW WHAT YOU HAVE"
  • the European Youth Conference for Energy and Climate YouPEC 2007 in Berlin
  • the Energiemaerchen poster campaign, with a one-sided advertisement in Der Spiegel 2008 and the new homepage www.energiemaerchen.de .

Web links

Supporting associations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The youth alliance for future energy - entry in the Lexicon of Sustainability, accessed on December 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c The JBZE on the NABU website ( Memento of December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ Klimadelegation eV July 21, 2019, accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Aims of the JBZE ( memento of September 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ Press release in the context of energy fairy tales ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The JKEE on the JBZE website ( memento from September 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ YES2004 from May 28 - 31, 2004 in Bonn: "When, if not now! Who, if not us!" ( Memento of April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 5, 2011.
  8. ↑ BMU - Youth Campaign Radiant Future Without Atom of April 24, 2005
  9. ↑ [1] (PDF; 105 kB) Press release on the youth climate summit 2011 in Berlin, accessed on December 19, 2011
  10. ↑ [2] in Thüringer Allgemeine from April 29, 2011: Ethics Council for the Energy Transition invited experts to Berlin , accessed on December 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ Youth relies on future energy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.energiezukunft.eu  
  12. ↑ It is important to be there. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger online. December 16, 2009, accessed June 6, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten (PDF; 1.2 MB) of December 12, 2009: Without professorship for the climate summit , accessed on December 20, 2011.
  14. ↑ The youth delegation on the JBZE website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 19, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zukunftsenergie.org  
  15. ↑ Self-presentation of the youth alliance for future energy on the climate negotiations in Bonn ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  16. ^ Aachner student at the Climate Summit in Aachener Zeitung on November 17, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2017.
  17. ↑ Christian Franke - Leine-Zeitung (PDF; 135 kB) in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Presse (Hanover) : Wiedding returns disaffected from December 22, 2009, page 5, accessed on December 22, 2011.
  18. ↑ Mobile game (PDF; 202 kB) - Eco-project research climate , accessed on December 19, 2011.
  19. ↑ Poster campaign  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 19, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zukunftsenergie.org  
  20. ↑ Imprint of the poster campaign in the Spiegel