representatives of the climate protection movement “Fridays for Future” turned for the first time, with concrete demands to the German policy. In it they call for the end of coal subsidies this year.

For the first Time the student has and the student movement “Fridays for Future” presented a claim paper. Containing only aware of the goals, said climate activist Linus Steinmetz. The policy measures for the implementation of the objectives are now the object of the policy.

In the paper calling for the representatives of the “Fridays for Future” a “at the end of the subsidies for fossil fuels” such as coal, Oil and Gas up to the end of the year. A quarter of the coal-fired power plants had to be shut down by the end of the year and the CO2 emissions will be made more expensive through taxation.

groups and in consultation with scientists. The aim was to urge with the increased influence of the movement, the policy of the Act.

“We have social and political influence,” said Steinmetz. The movement had reached an unimaginable size. The goal is to influence policy “up to the highest level”.

for the First time, the climate activists of the “Fridays for the Future,” a catalogue of demands.

students boycott since weeks in Germany and several other countries around the world once per week to the teaching, to protest against a lack of climate protection measures. created by Greta Thunberg

in life Fridays for the Future, has been called “” of the 16-year-old Swede, Greta Thunberg, which began in the summer of 2018 with your school to strike for the protection of the climate. Since then, there are those Friday demonstrations all over the world.

Steinmetz announced that the climate strikes will continue until was apparent that the objectives of the Paris climate agreement will actually be sought. The agreement sets the goal of global warming below two degrees, to limit and if possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era.

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