Activist -climate of France suppresses?: Three most important climatic news of the week

Berlin pelvis | Europe wants to be a climate -neutral by 2050, but has not yet had an intermediate goal for 2040. Now it should change. Compared to 1990, emissions are expected to be reduced by 90 percent at the end of the next decade, the EU commission has currently proposed. But: She wants to resolve all kinds of arithmetic tricks. Suzanne Schwartz and Verena Kern speak in updating the climate about how much climate protection brings the target.

The effect is reduced, among other things, due to the fact that the EU wants to allow its member countries to buy climate protection in neuropeous countries according to the certificate. This is known: such projects are prone to breakdown, and sometimes even fraudulent. Less CO2 was regularly preserved in such constellations than on paper.

In addition: the federal government wants to sign a contract with the Netherlands, which will allow the drilling gas in the North Sea, which affect the area of ​​both countries. On the Dutch side, One-Dya group even began promoting the energy source, an amazing climate. The protest mixes in Germany and especially on the struck by Borkum.

According to the group, they can get gas from the field from 4.5 to 13 billion cubic meters for several years. This corresponds to almost 6-16 percent of about 80 billion cubic meters, which Germany consumed only last year. This is bad for climate. Ecologists are also worried about the well of the sea of ​​Wadden.

Amnesty International has set up serious charges of France: climate and ecologists are deliberately suppressed in the country. Rich from a rude tone in public discourse, in which politics activists sometimes call environmental terrorists, restrictions on actions regarding disproportionate violence in the police.

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