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A court in Berlin handed down suspended sentences for three climate activists responsible for a paint attack on the German capital's famous Brandenburg Gate in September last year. The district court found the members of the Last Generation climate group guilty of causing damage to property and gave each of them an eight-month suspended sentence. The 22, 28 and 64-year-old defendants had previously confessed to having spray orange paint on the landmark on September 17, 2023. They had argued that the action was an "appropriate and necessary protest" in view of the climate crisis. The court disa...
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A new report has warned that climate change is creating a "cocktail of hazards" likely to affect more than 70% of the global workforce. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 2.4 billion of the world's 3.4 billion workers will be exposed to excessive heat during their working lives. Workers in agriculture and other sectors involving open-air activities are particularly affected by extreme heat and UV radiation, which can cause health conditions such as skin cancer and cardiovascular diseases. An estimated 19,000 people die every year across the globe as a result of excessiv...
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The Fridays for Future movement is looking to raise awareness for climate protection with an unspecified art action in Berlin on Friday next week. At the same time, there will also be actions in other places in Germany and demonstrations worldwide. "In Berlin, we are not mobilizing the masses this time, but rather setting the stage for science as part of an action," Fridays for Future told dpa in Berlin. "We are taking this step quite deliberately: while no continent is heating up as much as Europe, climate denial and climate relativization are escalating in the political and public sphere her...
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Temperatures in Germany during March were the warmest on record since measurements began in 1881, according to preliminary figures released by the German Weather Service (DWD) on Tuesday. The record-breaking March came after temperatures in February were also the warmest on record in Germany. In March, the average temperature was 7.5 degrees Celsius, exceeding the previous record set in 2017, when it was 7.2 degrees. The average temperatures were four degrees above the average for 1961 to 1990, a reference period used internationally to track temperature changes. March temperatures were also 2...
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region fell to its lowest level in six years at the beginning of 2024. In January and February, deforestation fell by 63% compared with the same period last year to 196 square kilometres, the environmental protection organization Imazon announced. Despite the significant decline, a daily average of 327 football pitches of rainforest was still cut down in the first two months of the year. "This data shows that we still have a major challenge ahead of us," said Larissa Amorim from Imazon. "Achieving the promised 2030 target of zero deforestation is extremely...
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Germany's Fridays for Future climate protest movement is calling for demonstrations on March 31 to demand more action to address climate change. Fridays for Future is also calling for demonstrations to be held in Germany on June 9 in the run-up to the European Parliament elections, group spokeswoman Annika Rittmann told dpa on Friday. "We are calling for policies that do justice to the urgent situation and protect people from the climate crisis and fascism," activist Luisa Neubauer, among the best-known leaders of the movement said. Neubauer said that Europe is in no way adequately prepared fo...
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The German climate activist group Last Generation announced it has collected enough signatures to put candidates on the ballot for European Parliament elections in June. Over the past four weeks, activists with Last Generation have collected and certified 8,800 signatures, about twice as many as needed, the group said on Wednesday. Last Generation rose to national prominence, and widespread controversy, with a campaign of aggressive street blockades in which activists sometimes glued their hands or feet to roadways. Last Generation activists also sprayed paint on political offices and major la...
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Stockholm police on Tuesday removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists from the entrance to the Swedish parliament, the TT News Agency reported. The 21-year-old activist and others from the Fridays for Future movement began their protest on Monday. A statement released by largely youthful activists drew attention to urgent social crises and the need for immediate and equitable change. The demonstrators were first dragged away from the entrance, and Thunberg was subsequently detained and taken away in a police vehicle. A police spokesman confirmed to TT that several people had been ques...
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Climate activism group Last Generation is calling on people to join a new form of demonstration in 10 German cities on Saturday, to kick off a season of protest. "Disobedient assemblies" are planned in Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Leipzig, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Regensburg, Munich and Rügen, the group said on Monday. This new protests will take the form of crowds of people blocking pavements and roads. These gatherings should be "significantly more disobedient" than organized demonstrations, but "absolutely peaceful," the group said. It was unclear exactly how the gatherings were to look ...
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg and numerous fellow campaigners have protested outside the entrances to the Swedish parliament in favour of greater climate justice. The group blocked several entrances to the building on Monday to draw attention to urgent social crises and the need for immediate and just change, according to a statement on the action. "This action is a resistance to the continuation of this deadly, unjust system. The richest consume enormous amounts of resources, at the expense of large parts of the world's population not even having their basic needs met," said Thunberg in the...
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