New economic miracle

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Initiative New Economic
Miracle (NWW)
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founding April 2, 2020

place Berlin / Munich / Potsdam
Organization type initiative
Website new-wirtschaftswunder.de

The New Economic Miracle is a civil society initiative that demands that economic development and economic stimulus programs launched in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 are primarily geared towards the goal of a socio-ecological transformation towards a sustainable world. The core of the demand is that the exit strategy from the measures to combat the Covid 19 pandemic must result in a fundamental reorganization of the economy.

Origin and background

The New Economic Miracle initiative goes back to the nationwide #WirVsVirus hackathon held on March 20-21, 2020 under the patronage of Chancellery Chief Helge Braun . This had set itself the task of bringing people together to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to work out solutions together from home. This hackathon was initiated by the organizers Code for Germany , Impact Hub Berlin, Initiative D21 , ProjectTogether , Prototype Fund , Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany and Tech4Germany .

Over 40,000 participants took part in the hackathon. The projects submitted included, among other things, the draft submitted by the current New Economic Miracle initiative on social issues, e.g. B. how the financial aid generated as part of the Covid-19 pandemic can be used to achieve the 1.5 ° C target of the Paris Climate Agreement . After the hackathon came to an end, several hackathon teams came together and founded the joint initiative New Economic Miracle.

Goals and tools

The New Economic Miracle initiative is primarily devoted to the question of how future economic policy measures can be used to achieve a socio-ecological transformation of the economy and to carry on the social rethinking that established itself during the corona crisis.

The initiative went public in an open letter dated April 21, 2020 to German Chancellor Angela Merkel , the federal ministers and the members of the German Bundestag . The first to sign the open letter are BAUM , Federal Association for Sustainability , Deutscher Naturschutzring , Energy Watch Group , Forum Sustainable Economy , Common Good Economy , GermanZero , GLS Community Bank , myclimate , Parents for Future , Social Impact , Triodos Bank and UnternehmensGrün .

In the open letter, the initiative to cope with the Covid 19 crisis of 2020 primarily calls for a transformation package that must focus on seven core strategies. these are

  1. Drastic reduction of CO 2 emissions ,
  2. Introduction of alternative target indicators for measuring prosperity ,
  3. Climate-friendly alignment of public finances,
  4. Provision of public infrastructure spending primarily for public, sustainable projects,
  5. Linking subsidies, transfers and lending to the private sector to the implementation of climate and social criteria,
  6. Social justice and balance as an overarching task,
  7. Consistent establishment and expansion of a 100% renewable energy system as a central climate protection measure.

The need for a new economic miracle and its key messages found a resonance even before the open letter was published.

Further instruments of the New Economic Miracle initiative are a petition to the German Bundestag, a dedicated website and a video clip that allows several people to speak and explain the position of the New Economic Miracle.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ #WirVsVirus. In: wirvsvirushackathon.org. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Viktoria Esker, Max Hauser, Stephan Köster, Marc Liebscher, Hannah Liya, Claudine Perlet, Kerstin Podere, Bartosz Przybylek, Hannah Meyer zu Tittingdorf, Martin Wittau: From economic to transformation package: Open letter for a new economic miracle. In: Initiative Neues Wirtschaftswunder. April 21, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Katharina Wiechers: Economic stimulus package with climate orientation required. In: Potsdam's latest news . April 21, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Appeal from business and environmentalists: The economic stimulus package should protect the climate. In: wallstreet: online . April 20, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Markus Balser, Michael Bauchmüller, Mike Szymanski: The dispute over economic aid flares up - "It is important to understand the reconstruction of the economy as a unique opportunity to modernize it and to transform it socially and ecologically". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 20, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Alfons Frese: We need an economic and transformation package. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 22, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Maja Göpel, Achim Truger: An economic miracle 2.0 is possible. Politicians just have to want it. In: The world . April 16, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Frans Timmermans, Bertrand Piccard: "What world do we want after Covid-19?" In: Der Spiegel. April 16, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 .
  9. ^ Economy after Corona Danone and Co. for green reconstruction. In: tagesschau.de . April 14, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Frédéric Simon: France, Germany join group of 10 EU countries calling for green recovery. In: Euractiv . April 11, 2020, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Consistent orientation of a future economic stimulus package based on socio-ecological guidelines. In: Deutscher Bundestag Petition 110043. April 21, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020 .