Climate Alliance Hamm

The Hamm Climate Alliance is an information and action platform that deals with topics from the fields of nature conservation , environmental protection , climate protection , the energy transition , the transport transition and the agricultural transition.

The Hamm Climate Alliance achieved supraregional importance for the climate protection movement through the campaign “NRW explains the climate emergency”. As part of the “#Klimanotstand in every town hall” campaign, the Hamm Climate Alliance maintains a comprehensive overview of all local initiatives and activities in Germany that are intended to bring about the declaration of a climate emergency at the municipal level. In addition, the Climate Alliance Hamm provides templates for the formulation of climate emergency applications through local initiatives.

history

The Hamm Climate Alliance was founded on October 18, 2014 at a meeting of members and representatives of several environmental initiatives and associations in the Forum for Environment and Just Development (FUgE) in Hamm . The portal klimabuendnis-hamm.de went online in the same month.

The aim of the foundation was to improve the cooperation between environmental groups, associations and initiatives in Hamm. The main focus should be the observation and documentation of the Hammer city policy with regard to climate-effective and climate-damaging measures. The Hamm Climate Alliance wants to encourage citizens to adopt a climate-friendly lifestyle.

From autumn 2014, the Hamm Climate Alliance and other groups took part in regional campaigns against gas drilling in the Münsterland.

Campaign #Klimanotstand in every town hall

On March 10, 2019, the Hamm Climate Alliance launched the “NRW explains the climate emergency” with the aim of getting 50 cities and municipalities in NRW to deal with climate protection and climate emergency in local political bodies (city councils, etc.). To this end, the Climate Alliance provides country-specific templates that local initiatives can use to submit the relevant applications.

Due to the unexpected success of the “clever political communication”, the action was transferred to the nationwide campaign “#Klimanotstand in every town hall”. Since then, the Climate Alliance has kept a list of cities and municipalities in which initiatives to explain the climate emergency are active. According to the company, this is updated several times a day.

As of December 19, 2019, the list names 173 entries for North Rhine-Westphalia alone, it now covers the entire federal territory with another 88 additional entries.

See also : Climate emergency  and list of German places and communities that have declared a climate emergency

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities declare a climate emergency. In: Current hour . WDR , May 16, 2019, accessed on May 16, 2019 (WDR report on the climate emergency, including on the Hamm climate alliance and its list of “climate emergency” initiatives). 
2. ↑ Elisa de Oliveira Brinkhoff: Seven months after the climate emergency, something is happening. In: welt.de. Retrieved May 17, 2019 . 
3. ^ Ulrich Mandel: Initial meeting for the Hamm climate alliance. In: Stadtspiegel . October 24, 2014, accessed May 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Climate Alliance Hamm. Retrieved on May 16, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ New procedure is to prevent major clear-cutting at the "Isenbecker Hof". October 8, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Against gas drilling: press release from “Energiewende now” and “Climate Alliance Hamm”. June 13, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ Green Dinslaken: Resistance to gas drilling - Green Dinslaken Green Dinslaken. May 2, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ January Hüttemann: Gasbohr opponents form human chain in Nordick. In: Ruhr news . May 22, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Jürgen Kinscher: NRW explains the climate emergency. Climate Alliance Hamm, March 10, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2020 . 
10. ↑ BVKS in the media. Federal Association for Climate Protection (BVKS), accessed on May 19, 2019 . 
11. ↑ RiffReporter: Climate Emergency! Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
12. ↑ As of July 2019, templates are provided for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Schleswig-Holstein , Thuringia and Saxony (all accessed on July 8, 2019).
13. ↑ Climate emergency in municipalities: a movement is growing. In: bizz energy. May 8, 2019, accessed May 19, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Jürgen Kinschner: #KLIMANOTSTAND - here and elsewhere. Climate Alliance Hamm, March 25, 2019, accessed on May 19, 2019 (link to Schleswig-Holstein application form on this page). 
15. ↑ Application form for Schleswig-Holstein: Suggestion according to §16e municipality code of Schleswig-Holstein. (DOC) Climate Alliance Hamm, accessed on May 19, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Climate emergency in municipalities: a movement is growing | bizz-energy.com. Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Jürgen Kinscher: #Klimanotstand in every town hall. Climate Alliance Hamm, March 14, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2020 . 
18. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Climate emergency: Real optimism or just symbolic politics? | DW | 07/09/2019. Accessed December 19, 2019 (German).