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Ende Gelände 2017
Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out. - environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines: * From 24 to 29 August 2017, about persons blocked a mine owned by RWE in the Rhineland coalfields.Molly Flening"Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany" ''The Independent'', 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018). * On 5 November 2017 (for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference), around persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.Jonathan Watts"Germany's dirty coalmines become the focus for a new wave of direct action" ''The Guardian'', 8 November 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018). Context On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ende may refer to Places *Ende Regency, a regency (second level subdivision) of Indonesia *Ende, East Nusa Tenggara, the seat (capital) of Ende Regency People *Ende (artist), 10th-century Spanish manuscript illuminator *Erik Ende, a leader of Scouting in Sweden *Edgar Ende (1901–1965), German surrealist painter *Hans am Ende (1864–1918), German Impressionist painter *Harald Ende (born 1929), German musician *Hermann Ende (1829–1907), German architect *Joop van den Ende (born 1942), Dutch media tycoon and theatrical producer *Karl Friedrich am Ende (1756-1810), Austrian general in the War of the Fourth Coalition *Michael Ende (1929–1995), German fantasy writer, son of Edgar Ende *Tan Ende (born 1971), Chinese footballer and coach Other uses *''Ende: A Diary Of The Third World War'', a post-apocalyptic novel by Anton-Andreas Guha *Ende language (Indonesia) of Flores Island, Indonesia *Ende language, a variety of the Agob language of Papua New Guinea *Ende or H. Hasan Aroeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Swedish State. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company's name is Swedish for "waterfall", and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board (''Kungliga Vattenfallstyrelsen''). History Vattenfall (then called ''Kungliga Vattenfallsstyrelsen'' or Royal Waterfall Board) was founded in 1909 as a state-owned enterprise in Sweden. From its founding until the mid-1970s, Vattenfall's business was largely restricted to Sweden, with a focus on hydroelectric power generation. Only in 1974 did the company begin to build nuclear reactors in Sweden (the Ringhals 1 and 2 reactors), eventually owning seven of Sweden's 12 reactors. In 1992, Vattenfall was reformed as the limited liability company Vattenfall AB. At the same time, the transmission grid (220 kV and 400 kV lines) was transferred to the newly formed state agency Svens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupations (protest)
Occupation commonly refers to: *Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment *Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, the martial control of a territory *Occupancy, use of a building Occupation or The Occupation may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Occupation'' (2018 film), an Australian film * Occupation (2021 film), a Czech comedy drama film * ''Occupation'' (TV series), a 2009 British drama about the Iraq War * "Occupation" (''Battlestar Galactica''), a 2006 television episode * "The Occupation" (''Star Wars Rebels''), a 2017 television episode *''The Occupation'', a 2019 video game *''The Occupation'', a 2019 novel by Deborah Swift See also *Career, a course through life * Employment, a relationship wherein a person serves of another by hire *Job (other) *Occupy (other) *Position (other) *Profession, a vocation *Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Protests
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In The Environment
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Germany
This list details notable events occurring in 2017 in Germany. Major events included the death of Helmut Kohl and the legalization of same-sex marriage. Incumbents * President: **Joachim Gauck (until 18 March 2017) **Frank-Walter Steinmeier (from 18 March 2017) * Chancellor: Angela Merkel Events January * January – 2016–2017 Tour de Ski * January – 2016–2017 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 4 * January – 2016–2017 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 5 * 11 January – Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg opened. * 20 January – Museum Barberini in Potsdam opened. February * 1–5 February – 2017 German Masters * 9–18 February – 67th Berlin International Film Festival * 9 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 * 12 February – 2017 German presidential election March * CeBIT in Hanover * ITB Berlin in Berlin * Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig * Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 * In March 2017, French company Groupe PSA agreed to buy German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hambach Forest
Hambach Forest (german: Hambacher Wald, Hambacher Forst (), Bürgewald, Die Bürge) is an ancient forest located near in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, between Cologne and Aachen. It was planned to be cleared as part of the Hambach surface mine by owner RWE AG. There were protests and occupations from 2012 against this, and in 2020 a law was passed to preserve it. The forest Hambach Forest is rich in biodiversity and home to 142 species regarded as important for conservation. The forest has been called ''"the last remnant of a sylvan ecosystem that has occupied this part of the Rhine River plain between Aachen and Cologne since the end of the last ice age"''. Only ten percent of Hambach Forest still remains, and the remaining forest is severely threatened by mining for brown coal. Of special interest is the rare Bechstein's bat population, which is strictly protected according to annex II and annex IV of the European Habitats Directive. An Environmental Impact A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fossil Fuel Divestment
Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure for the institutional divestment of assets including stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments connected to companies involved in extracting fossil fuels. Fossil fuel divestment campaigns emerged on campuses in the United States in 2011 with students urging their administrations to turn endowment investments in the fossil fuel industry into investments in clean energy and communities most impacted by climate change. In 2012, Unity College in Maine became the first institution of higher learning to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. By 2015, fossil fuel divestment was reportedly the fastest growing divestment movement in history. In October 2021, a total of 1,485 institutions representing $39.2 trillion in assets worldwide had begun or committed to a divestment from fossil fuels. Motivati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ende Gelände 2018
Ende Gelände 2018 were a series of events of a mass movement for climate justice in the in Germany. The non-violent direct action civil disobedience events were targeted against coal-based power generation through RWE Power AG and demanded the "immediate fossil fuel phase-out" based on climate justice and climate change mitigation. Some smaller activities happened on the in the Hambach Forest, whereas the main activities were concentrated around the . On the , a bucket-wheel excavator near the village of as well as the rails of the belonging to the Hambach surface mine were occupied by several thousand activists for 22 hours in order to symbolically block the transfer of lignite to the power plants. More than people took part in the protests. In the aftermath to the activities, the public prosecutor's office Aachen investigates for breach of the peace against some 400 participants of the protests, who also tried to enter the . See also * Ende Gelände * Ende Geländ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ende Gelände
(EG) (German saying for "here and no further"; literally "end terrain" or "end of terrain") is a civil disobedience movement occupying coal mines in Germany to raise awareness for climate justice. Ende Gelände has been organizing mass civil disobedience actions against coal mines in Rhineland, Lusatia and Leipzig since 2015. Since 2017, it has participated in civil disobedience protests against coal mining and fracking in Poland, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. It supports Venice's movement against big cruising ships. Annual protests in Germany have been attended by between and participants. It regularly supports anti-racist rallies in Germany and has hosted a range of smaller local protests since 2018. Organization Ende Gelände was founded by a broad alliance of anti-coal groups, grassroots climate action groups, large environmental organizations, left-wing groups and others. Big organizations like Fridays For Future, Greenpeace and Bund für Umwelt und Naturschut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energiewende In Germany
The ''Energiewende'' (; ) is the ongoing transition by Germany to a low carbon, environmentally sound, reliable, and affordable energy supply. The new system intends to rely heavily on renewable energy (particularly wind, photovoltaics, and hydroelectricity), energy efficiency, and energy demand management. The last nuclear power plant will shut down in 2022; all existing coal-fired generation will be retired by 2038. Legislative support for the ''Energiewende'' was passed in late 2010 and included greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions of 80–95% by 2050 (relative to 1990) and a renewable energy target of 60% by 2050. Germany has already made significant progress on its GHG emissions reduction target prior to the introduction of the program, achieving a 27% decrease between 1990 and 2014. However the country would need to maintain an average GHG emissions abatement rate of 3.5% per year to reach its ''Energiewende'' goal, equal to the maximum historical value thus far. A contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy Transition
The energy transition is the process of downshifting fossil fuels and re-developing whole systems to operate on low carbon energy sources. More generally, an energy transition is a significant structural change in an energy system regarding supply and consumption. The current transition to sustainable energy is largely driven by a recognition that global greenhouse-gas emissions must be brought to zero. Since fossil fuels are the largest single source of carbon emissions, the quantity that can be produced is limited by the Paris Agreement of 2015 to keep global warming below 1.5 °C. Over 70% of our global greenhouse gas emissions result from the energy sector, for transport, heating, and industrial use. Wind power and solar photovoltaic systems (PV) have the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. Since the late 2010s, the renewable energy transition is also driven by the rapidly increasing competitiveness of both. Another motivation for the transition is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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