Climate Alliance Germany

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Climate Alliance Germany
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founding April 24, 2007
Seat Berlin ( ⊙ coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 50.7 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 0.4 ″  E )
main emphasis Climate and energy policy
Managing directors Christiane Averbeck
sales 675,000 euros (2017)
Employees 12 (2017)
Members 130 (2019)
Website klima-allianz.de

The Climate Alliance Germany is an alliance of civil society organizations for climate protection in Germany . With over 120 member organizations (as of December 2018) from the fields of environment, development, church, education, culture, youth, consumer protection, health and trade unions, it advocates an ambitious climate policy and an energy transition at local, national, European and international level a. Member organizations include, among others, the WWF , the BUND , Misereor , Bread for the World , a number of country churches and ver.di . The Climate Alliance Germany was founded on April 24, 2007, and has been a member of the Climate Action Network Europe since October 2013 . Its legal entity has been the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum since 2014 .

goals and tasks

The Climate Alliance Germany stands for a sustainable and ambitious climate policy and wants to provide food for thought. Her work focuses on initiating and organizing debates on current climate and energy policy , representing the interests of her members in relation to politics, as well as joint events and activities with people from different social groups. According to paper of the Climate Alliance Germany puts mainly for coal withdrawal, the expansion of renewable energy , reducing greenhouse gas emissions at national and international level and for climate justice one. The goals and intentions were recorded in 2016 in the Climate Manifesto of the Climate Alliance Germany.

The organizational alliance wants to create a counterweight to the forces in business and politics from different social groups, which it sees as “blockers” in terms of climate policy. After the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, which was viewed as a failure by the Climate Alliance Germany, the focus shifted to the energy transition in Germany. Renewable energy and a "sustainable energy policy" should be encouraged to CO 2 - emissions to reduce. Climate Alliance Germany is also committed to curbing the growth in emissions from transport and promoting ecological agriculture .

At the EU level, the Climate Alliance Germany aims to raise the binding greenhouse gas emission reduction target from 20 to at least 30 percent by 2020 and from 40 to at least 55 percent by 2030 (compared to 1990). On a global scale, she advocates more climate justice. In terms of per capita greenhouse gas emissions, Germany is 2.5 times higher than the global average and is thus one of the main causes of climate change . In the view of the alliance, Germany as an industrialized nation must therefore politically and financially support developing countries and the population groups particularly affected in climate protection (through renewable energies, energy efficiency and forest protection ) and in adapting to the consequences of climate change , and must also promote poverty reduction.

requirements

The Climate Alliance Germany makes the following main demands on the German federal government (as of November 2018):

at the federal political level

  • Adoption of a climate protection law with a binding reduction path of at least 95 percent less greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
  • Legal anchoring of a socially acceptable coal exit with a quick entry and an ambitious exit path based on the Paris climate goals. Adoption of a moratorium on the construction of new coal-fired power plants . Prohibition of new opencast mines and mine extensions to save villages and protect people from forced relocation. With a view to the 2020 climate target, the short-term shutdown of half of the coal-fired power plants
  • Active structuring and financial security of structural change in the lignite regions
  • A consistent, socially just and nature-friendly energy transition with the involvement of the citizenry, which is shaped in the interests of the global common good and financed as fairly as possible
  • Significantly increased expansion and cross-sector expansion of renewable energies
  • Reduction of climate and environmentally harmful subsidies gradually by 2025, e.g. B. Diesel privilege or tax exemptions for air traffic
  • Introduction of an effective and predictable rising minimum CO 2 price for all sectors
  • Adoption of an energy efficiency law with mandatory requirements for industry
  • Ecological change in the sectors of transport , agriculture, buildings, industry and commerce, trade, services in line with the Paris climate goals

on international level

  • Increase of the EU climate protection targets from 20 to 30 percent by 2020, from at least 40 to at least 55 percent by 2030 and at least 95 percent emission reduction by 2050 (in each case compared to 1990)
  • Corresponding increase in the targets for energy efficiency and expansion of renewable energies
  • The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) should be in line with these objectives
  • Targeted initiative for CO 2 pricing in all sectors
  • Concretization and ambitious implementation of the global sustainability goals in accordance with the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement
  • Provision of funds for adaptation measures to climate change, including the provision of insurance and compensation payments
  • Gender-equitable and poverty-reducing climate policy and financing

organization

Fundamental political decisions are made in plenary sessions, which meet at least twice a year. The office is responsible for the implementation of the resolutions in coordination with a "spokesperson's council" made up of up to nine representatives from member organizations, which is elected by the plenary. He takes over the content control between the plenaries and determines the annual plan.

The legal entity of the Climate Alliance Germany is the Forum Ecological-Social Market Economy (FÖS). The budget (2016: almost 460,000 euros) is covered by income from project funds and membership fees. Projects are currently (2018) funded by the European Climate Foundation, the Mercator Foundation, the National Climate Initiative of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the North Rhine-Westphalia Environment and Development Foundation. Around a third is achieved through membership fees, plus small donations. Past projects were also financed by the Children's Investment Fund , the DBU , the federal project management agency Jülich and other foundations.

activities

Coordination of climate protection plan 2050 and program of measures 2030

Coordinated by the Climate Alliance Germany, more than 50 organizations published the “Climate Protection Plan 2050 of German Civil Society” in November 2016 as the result of a broad participation process. In it they call for more ambitious climate protection goals and legal binding force. The German government had previously published its Climate Protection Plan 2050 as a national response to the Paris Climate Agreement , which the Climate Alliance Germany criticized as insufficient.

The Climate Alliance Germany then coordinated the “Climate Protection Action Program 2030 of German Civil Society”. More than sixty organizations from across the board of civil society describe in the comprehensive statement the measures that they consider necessary in all areas of climate policy so that Germany can achieve its climate target for 2030. Central demands are an early coal phase-out, the rapid implementation of the traffic and agricultural turnaround and an ambitious CO 2 price. Both projects were funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

Berlin climate talks

Since November 2015, the Climate Alliance Germany has hosted the Berlin climate talks on changing topics several times a year. The events take place in cooperation with their member organizations. Several federal ministers, state secretaries and party leaders were among the podium guests. The kick-off event was devoted to civil society proposals for a more climate-friendly air transport concept for Germany.

Anti-coal campaign

The Climate Alliance Germany is committed to an ambitious coal exit . The reduction of coal-fired power generation and mining is a key element in order to meet the German and international climate targets and to achieve the necessary decarbonization in terms of effective climate protection. The alliance therefore demands that no new open-cast mines be approved. Existing opencast mines in the Rhenish lignite district , in Lusatia and in Central Germany are not to be expanded, but rather reduced.

The structural change in the lignite regions should be actively shaped politically and financially secured, for example through a structural change fund. In cooperation with local and regional groups, Climate Alliance Germany also works to preserve villages and landscapes that are threatened by open-cast mines . In order to achieve these goals, the alliance made the legal, economic and social discussion of the commercial use of coal a priority. In political discussions, claim papers, reports and studies, the Climate Alliance Germany draws attention to the dangers of coal-based power generation for the climate , the environment and health. It also creates public awareness through media reports, events, actions and participation in demonstrations.

From 2008 to 2013, the Climate Alliance Germany organized an anti-coal campaign to prevent new coal-fired power plants in Germany. The alliance coordinated and supported civil society activities . Through the campaign of the Climate Alliance Germany in cooperation with citizens' initiatives, environmental associations and activists from different areas of society, 17 climate-damaging coal-fired power plant projects could be stopped during the period.

Climate Manifesto

The Climate Manifesto is a manifesto initiated by the Climate Alliance Germany from 2016 that describes a vision of the climate movement. Politics and society are called in the text to work for a world that is based on the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and the global goals for sustainable development . The member organizations of the Climate Alliance Germany were involved in its creation.

In the manifesto, climate change and the high consumption of natural resources are identified as global and pressing challenges that can only be met through joint efforts. It is pointed out that the problems of a globalized world with extreme injustice and inequality can only be solved through global cooperation and solidarity. The industrialized countries, which built their prosperity on the basis of fossil fuels and thus largely caused climate change, have a special responsibility.

The climate manifesto was presented in September 2016 at a festive event on the meadow in front of the Berlin Reichstag building . With a view to the Bundestag election in the following year, the leaders of the parties represented in the Bundestag were invited.

The Climate Manifesto was initially only published in German. In 2017 it was translated into Polish and Turkish.

Alternative energy summit

Between 2010 and 2015, the Climate Alliance Germany organized the Alternative Energy Summit. Energy and climate policy issues were discussed at this congress.

International Climate Action Day

From 2007 to 2015, the Climate Alliance Germany organized nationwide actions and demonstrations for the general public as part of the annual international climate action day in order to protest against a lack of environmental awareness in politics and business and to encourage climate protection on a broad social basis.

Networking and training

In addition to the activist activities, the Climate Alliance Germany also mediates and maintains content-related and tactical networking among its member organizations and with other civil society actors. It also offers its members the opportunity to take part in further training, for example through specially organized seminars.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Climate Alliance Germany: Our members. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  2. ^ Climate Alliance Germany: Members of the Climate Alliance Germany. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  3. ^ "Climate Alliance" founded: Churches, environmental associations and development organizations call on the federal government to act. WWF Germany, April 24, 2007, accessed July 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ The Alliance for Climate Protection. Retrieved June 15, 2018 .
  5. ^ Forum Ecological-Social Market Economy, right column. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Climate Alliance Germany: Political principles of the Climate Alliance Germany. Climate Alliance Germany, accessed on December 10, 2018 .
  7. ^ Climate Alliance Germany: The Climate Manifesto. September 8, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Review: Events of climate policy over the past 10 years and the role of the Climate Alliance Germany. In: Anniversary Report 2007–2017. Climate Alliance Germany, April 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b Climate Alliance Germany: Acting at last. Implement climate protection pledge nationally. Climate Alliance Germany, accessed on December 10, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b How does the Climate Alliance Germany work? In: Anniversary Report 2007–2017. Climate Alliance Germany, April 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Our structure - financing. Climate Alliance Germany, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ German civil society's climate protection plan 2050. Climate Alliance Germany, April 20, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  13. ↑ When, if not now. The Climate Protection 2030 program of German civil society. Climate Alliance Germany, November 15, 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b The Climate Alliance Germany in action. In: Anniversary Report 2007–2017. Climate Alliance Germany, April 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Climate Alliance Germany: Factsheet: Downsizing of lignite opencast mines necessary. July 2017, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Climate Alliance Germany: Continuously cut back coal power and opencast mines. Position paper for politics and decision-makers. December 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  17. Jump to the coal! The Climate Alliance Germany and the coal phase-out. In: Anniversary Report 2007–2017. Climate Alliance Germany, April 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 (At the end of the 2013 anti-coal campaign: page 27 in the same volume.).
  18. ^ Climate Alliance Germany: The anti-coal campaign of the Climate Alliance Germany 2008-2013. Retrieved December 12, 2018 .
  19. ↑ a b Climate Alliance Germany: Anniversary Report 2007-2017. April 2017, Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  20. ↑ a b Climate Alliance Germany: The Climate Manifesto. September 2016, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Climate Alliance Germany: Anniversary Report 2007-2017. April 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .