Ende
Gelände
2017

Stop Coal. Protect the Climate!

  • 24th to 29th of August 2017Rhineland Open Pit mines
  • 3rd to 5th November 2017during the UN-Climate Conference

Perspectives-Meeting in early February 2018

News

Lignite world champion hosts
climate conference

The international climate negotiations on the implementation of the Paris climate conference will take place in Bonn in autumn 2017. But right next door in the Rhineland coal mining area, Europe’s largest CO2 emitter, the fuel most disastrous for the climate continues to be extracted and burnt. Germany is the world’s
largest producer of lignite, a catastrophe for the climate.

Coal must stay in the ground if we want to avoid catastrophic effects on the climate! In 2017 we have the opportunity to make people aware of the enormous failures of German and international climate policy and enable an immediate end to coal.

Front line for fighting climate change

Government officials have been egotiating for 23 years and haven’t managed to limit global temperature rise. And we hardly have any time to avoid crossing the 1.5 degree threshold. Germany will miss its 2020 climate targets. And climate change won’t wait. The climate movement needs to embrace direct action more than ever.

System Change not Climate Change!

We can’t tackle climate change or ensure global social justice without moving away from capitalism fuelled by fossil fuels. Deep socio-economic changes are needed to enable everyone to lead a good life.

We say
ENDE GELÄNDE

Last year 4000 people occupied the coal diggers in Lausitz (Lusatia) and blocked the coal mining infrastructure for over 48 hours. In 2017 we will show that neither we nor the climate will follow the snail’s pace of the negotiations. We need to take action on climate every day.

Coal phase out is hands work

Together we will show the strength of our commitment to climate justice through civil disobedience in the rhineland lignite mining area on the second occasion in 2017: on 03rd to 05th November during the UN climate conference.

We’ll keep our promise: we’ll keep
coming until extraction stops!

Climate change doesn’t wait!