Climate camp

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Climate camps are tent camps at the site of carbon extraction (oil, gas, coal) or at the site of its combustion ( power plants ).

Goals and Organization

Climate camps serve to draw the public's attention to climate damage caused by the use of hydrocarbons and to draw attention to the need and possibility of reducing and avoiding CO 2 emissions. The camps are organized on a grassroots and non-commercial basis. They are made possible through voluntary work and donations.

History and Development

The climate camps began in Great Britain at the Drax coal-fired power station , Heathrow Airport , the Kingsnorth power station in Kent, in London and at the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland . During 2009, camps were also held in Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland, Wales and Australia.

The Camp for Climate Action was launched in 2006 after activists discussed the idea at the 2005 G8 conference in Stirling, Scotland .

In Germany there was a climate camp in the Lausitz from 2011 to 2016 , the Lausitzcamp. Since 2010 there has been an annual climate camp in the Rhineland, the Rhineland Camp.

In 2019, numerous climate camps took place, such as the Camp for Future in the Rhenish lignite mining district for the third time in a row, as well as international camps in Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Great Britain, France and Italy, in some cases combined with various protests and days of action.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cine rebelde: Documentary film: Reclaim Power - Klimacamp 2006. April 9, 2008, accessed on April 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Hanno Böck: Climate camp in Edinburgh: Protest against Schotten-Bank . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 23, 2010, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 16, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Klimacamp Lausitz announces a demonstration against opencast mining. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Climate camp in Lausitz !!! In: www.attac.de/Cottbus. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Activists pitch tents at the 5th Lausitz climate camp. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ With climate camps against lignite. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Erkelenz: "Climate Camp" in North Rhine-Westphalia: With thousands of bodies against lignite mining . August 24, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed April 16, 2019]).
  8. ^ WDR: Klimacamp: Youth protest in Kerpen-Buir. August 2, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Climate camps and protests in summer 2019. In: Youth in the Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany eV ( BUND youth). Retrieved February 21, 2020 .