Fridays for Future
Climate activists demonstrate for the phase-out of coal and gas
Participants in the Fridays for Future climate strike at Invalidenpark in Berlin. According to the police, around ten thousand people took to the streets in the capital. Photo: Paul Zinken/dpa
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The climate activists from Fridays for Future took to the streets again – in Germany alone there were actions in more than 300 cities.
Concerned about climate change, many people around the world and also in German cities demonstrated again and called on governments to phase out fossil fuels.
In the capital Berlin, the police spoke at noon of around ten thousand demonstrators who first gathered near the main train station and then wanted to run to the Brandenburg Gate. A rally was planned there, at which the well-known climate activist Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Future wanted to speak.
The predominantly young people responded to an appeal by the organization and called for an end to dependence on fossil fuels “as a response to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine”. They demand “an end to the war and a ban on imports of coal, oil and gas from Russia,” according to the movement on the Internet. According to this information, more than 1000 events should take place worldwide – in Germany alone actions in more than 300 cities.
«As the climate crisis escalates, the traffic light is financing Putin’s attack on Ukraine with its fossil energy imports. With her decisions on energy supply, she is further aggravating the war and the climate crisis,” said Carla Reemtsma from Fridays for Future of the German Press Agency. The traffic light must now implement the import ban and set an end date for oil and gas. “This is the only way it can end existing dependencies on autocrats, while at the same time, like in Qatar, it must not enter into any new ones.”