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3 min. Knowledge transfer for active climate protectors throughout Germany

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3 min. Knowledge transfer for active climate protectors throughout Germany
Day 21
Climate neutral place by place - for a livable, healthy future

Samira from Jena has long been passionate about climate protection. Despite the declaration of a climate emergency, however, there was no progress in Jena - in her opinion, local politics were not doing enough. So Samira and some fellow campaigners started the Jena Climate Decision to take climate protection into their own hands. After intensive preparation, the team began collecting signatures for a citizens' petition in the summer of 2021. Their demand: Jena to be climate-neutral by 2035. Fellow citizens lined up at their stand. Less than two weeks later, the city converted the petition into a city council resolution. The team is now supporting the creation of a climate action plan. It is important to them that residents are involved, that measures are socially fair and that technical and social change is initiated. In addition to the success of having advanced climate protection in Jena, Samira values working with like-minded people. They show that we can make a big difference.

Climate neutral place by place - for a livable, healthy future
Svenja (Fraeulein.Oeko) presents her favourite project in the video
need
Content and organizational support for citizens who want to start a climate decision in their municipality
activity
GermanZero gives local volunteer climate activists a helping hand to campaign for effective and binding climate protection
Measurable performance
Number of climate decision teams that have been launched and are active on site
Result
In more German cities, climate decisions initiated by volunteers are leading to concrete climate protection measures
Systemically relevant impact
A growing number of municipalities on the path to climate neutrality are helping Germany take another step towards meeting the 1.5-degree target
background

The Climate Decisions project enables citizens to campaign for effective climate protection in their communities. This makes a decisive contribution to ensuring that regions become climate neutral more quickly and the climate crisis can be averted. To quickly and profoundly reduce greenhouse gases - as a decisive factor in limiting global warming - it requires less individual measures than systemic change, supported by a legal framework. To begin this transformation, action must be taken at all levels. Many of the regulations of an effective climate protection law must ultimately be implemented locally: from the use of public space to transport concepts and heat supply - municipalities and districts have many tasks and competencies that must be designed in a climate-friendly manner. Climate decisions are based on the climate emergencies declared in many municipalities in recent years. Citizens can use direct democracy to participate in shaping local politics. The teams conduct public relations and persuasion work and collect signatures in a variety of ways. Once the decision has been reached, the teams support the creation and implementation of climate neutrality plans. GermanZero has created a large knowledge base about where local CO2 emissions arise, how they can be reduced in concrete terms and what the costs and economic opportunities are. Local climate neutrality enables people to live and work more sustainably. This enables municipalities to manage their economies more proactively and create sustainable infrastructure. This makes municipalities pioneers in climate protection.

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The good deed

Your donation can give real help to climate activists who want to take climate protection into their own hands in their communities. Information events are offered and people are connected with others in their area. Once a team has been found, there is a workshop in which the new team is given everything they need to get started straight away: a climate vision for their community that outlines the path to climate neutrality; a guide on how citizens' initiatives work; instructions on what is needed for the campaign - in other words, a blueprint for a successful climate decision. But that's not all: all teams are advised and networked so that they learn from and with each other. This creates a project in which citizens can actively engage in climate protection and have a direct impact with a specific goal. At the same time, a movement is emerging that is making Germany climate neutral place by place and also influencing state and federal politics.

About Germany
Berlin
Berlin
Capital city
83,129,285
83,129,285
Population
50,801.8
50,801.8
Gross domestic product per capita per year
Rank 9 of 191
Rank 9 of 191
Human Development Index (Human Development Index)

With around 11.4 million hectares, almost a third of Germany's land area is covered with forest (BMEL, 2021). One hectare of forest stores around 6 tons of CO2. Overall, German forests relieve the atmosphere of around 62 million tons of CO2 annually, thus compensating for around 7% of Germany's emissions (BMEL, 2017).
About the organization and further information

organization

GermanZero eV

website

germanzero.de/

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