Ende Gelände 2019

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Neurath power station
(in background) off from its supply of lignite from 21 June 2019 to 23 June 2019.

Ende Gelände 2019 was a series of large-scale events of a movement for climate justice in Germany.

As a continuation of the

RWE Power AG and demanded the "immediate fossil fuel phase-out" based on climate justice and climate change mitigation.[1]

Between 21 and 23 June 2019, protests centered on the

Garzweiler open pit mine of the Rhenish lignite mining area [de].[2][3][4]

Protests also took place in the Lusatian lignite mining area [de] between 29 November and 1 December 2019.[5]

In the Rhenish lignite mining area

Background

In January 2019, the German

global warming from reaching an irreversible tipping point.[6] In February 2019, the climate protection report 2018 was published, according to which Germany was forecast to miss the self-imposed climate protection targets for 2020.[7]

On 20 June 2019, the then-heads of state and government of the

EU could not agree on CO2 neutrality by 2050, because Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic objected to it.[8]

The youth climate movement

legal side.[14][15][12]

Activities

Garzweiler II open pit mine near Keyenberg [de
] on 22 June 2019.
Garzweiler open-pit lignite mine
on 22 June 2019.
The "red finger" moving forward on the 22 June 2019.

On Friday, 21 June 2019 the Ende Gelände 2019 activities began with a blockade of the North-South (

Neurath power station.[16][12] On Saturday, 22 June 2019, blockades of the Hambach track and occupations of the open pit mine took place,[12]
causing RWE to power down four of six power plants.

Meanwhile, a

Fridays for Future (FFF) demonstration was held on 22 June 2019 on the edge of the open pit mine and near Keyenberg, a village scheduled for dredging for open pit mining in the near future.[17]
According to the organizers, this event drew some 8000 people.

Garzweiler II open pit mine at noon. The railway line to the Neurath power plant was not cleared at this time.[18] Mid-day, Ende Gelände 2019 issued a press release stating that the blockade had ended. More than 6000 activists participated in the protests.[19]

Police violence was reported in connection with the protests.

Hochneukirch and Viersen, for up to 13 hours, due to what the police called "capacity issues".[19][23] The police reported eight injured police officers,[20] probably due to falls while trying to stop protesters.[24]

After Ende Gelände had already stopped its activities at the Garzweiler open-pit mine, at 5 am (CET) on Monday, 24 June 2019, another group blocked the Hambach industrial spur and seven women occupied an excavator at the

Hambach open-pit lignite mine until midday.[25][26]

In the Lusatian lignite mining area

Background

About 1.4 million Germans joined the

third global climate strike on 20 September 2019.[27][28] On the same day, the fourth Merkel cabinet proposed its climate package, which was criticized as being insufficient by scientists, environmental organizations and the opposition. Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, described it as "document of political dispiritedness" with which the set goals for 2030 could not be reached.[29] During the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit on the 23 September 2019, the most important countries also did not bring forward any measures that were ambitious enough.[30]

Activities

Finger of the Anti-Kohle-Kidz shortly before a blockade near Koppatz [de].

On Friday, the 29 November 2019, protesters again demanded more climate protection during the

fourth global climate strike. In Germany, about 630000 people participated in this event.[31] On Saturday, several thousand activists from Brandenburg and Saxony started blockades in the open pit mines South Welzow [de], Jänschwalde [de] and United Schleenhain.[32] Fridays for Future and the initiative Alle Dörfer bleiben supported the activities.[33] As planned, after several hours the activists stopped the blockades in the afternoon. According to the police, three policemen were lightly injured, otherwise the protests remained peaceful despite threats of violence from right-wing extremists in the days before the event.[34]

See also

References

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