Posts Tagged ‘Angela Merkel’

• Heavy anti-nuclear protests in Germany

  These past days there have been heavy protests and blockades in Germany against a train carrying nuclear waste from France. Der Spiegel writes: "A train loaded with radioactive waste ended its controversial journey through Germany on Monday. Its path had …

• World leaders apologizes for climate failure in Copenhagen ads

  Our world leaders haven’t yet apologized for their climate failure in Copenhagen so Greenpeace and the global tcktcktck campaign have done it for them in these advertisements at the Copenhagen airport: “I’m sorry,” the text of the ad reads. “We …

• Atomkraft? Nein danke! 50.000 people protest against nuclear energy in Germany

  This past weekend around 50 000 people from around Germany protested in Berlin against nuclear energy. The demonstrators protested against threats from the current right wing government to extend a deadline for the country’s 17 nuclear reactors. “In Berlin an …

• Top German scientist warns that climate change is accelerating

  Photo credit: azrainman Top German scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber warns that climate change is now happening much more quickly than anyone thought was possible. In an interview with Saarbruecker Zeitung newspaper Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on …

• George Monbiot: The new European climate deal is carbon colonialism

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum George Monbiot writes today on the Guardian that the new EU emissions agreement is a disaster and calls it carbon colonialism. So much for the Europeans leading the way on climate change. Even as our …

• Embarrassment: EU leaders fail to agree on a strong climate deal

  Photo credit: rockcohen Leaders from the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a new watered-down climate deal to tackle global warming. The actual emissions cuts could amount to as little as 4% by 2020. Yesterday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …

• Germany, Poland and Italy blocks strong European leadership on climate

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum Avaaz, an independent and not-for-profit global campaigning organization, says that European leadership on climate is “essential to secure us all a global deal” in the UN climate conference in Poznań, Poland. Unfortunately have Germany, Poland …