Personalities from the worlds of music, Film and television have taken on sponsorships for the trees in the hambach forest. Although is not cleared in the mining region at the time, but the forest is not saved yet.
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
The fight for the forest
It was up to the power company, RWE, is also to soft, the last remnant of the hambach forest is the brown coal mining. The time may be not cleared, but the last word is not yet spoken. The climate-Alliance Germany had therefore called on celebrities, for the preservation of the forest. Your Portraits (here: TV chef Sarah Wiener) hang a symbol on the trees.
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
For Climate Protection: An Actor Benno Fürmann
At the time of Benno Fürmann is to be seen in the TV series “Babylon Berlin”. The actor is fighting publicly for climate protection: “climate change is already a major burden, particularly for the poorest people in the global South. The policy is to the people here and around the world are guilty of, to take the threat seriously and to act.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
To him it is All or nothing: the cavern Beatles, music, cabaret artist and singer-songwriter
“When I was in the summer and with the Activists spoke, it was immediately clear to me: This forest is a forest with symbolic content. Here it is not just about trees, it’s about the big picture,” says the comedian Bodo Wartke.
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
Fighting for women’s rights: Monika Hauser, a Physician, and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize
“The forest is only the beginning. Thousands of people are forced, for one-day lift build your home, over centuries, the village communities are being destroyed. For the residents, these relocations are very stressful, and mentally. It makes you wonder, why all this still needs to be – now that the coal phaseout.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
Eco-friendly light: The artist Olafur Eliasson founded the “Little Sun”
Since 2012, Little Sun takes care of “” to deliver to people without power, with energy. “If Germany says it is serious about sustainability, it needs to stop, brown coal – the most polluting fossil fuel – to reduce. More than 12,000 years of the hambach forest has been used for its present appearance. When he’s gone, he’s gone. The energy transition must be done now.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
Against coal as a climate killer: Johannes Strate of the Band “Revolverheld”
“The energy group RWE would destroy the most species-rich forests of this country, to be able to (…) its power plants, with Germany’s climate killer number 1, of lignite or brown coal feed. Have (…) droughts and heavy rain demonstrated that action must be taken (…). In Germany, this means: switch off the dirtiest coal-fired plants now, ( … ), and the renewable energies continue to expand!”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
The “forest-maker”: Tony Rinaudo, an agricultural economist and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize in 2018
Rinaudo turned barren landscapes into forests and arable land: “forests can be of great importance for the health, they provide us with clean air and clean water, you can protect us from floods and provide birds and insects a home. How we deal today with our forests is crucial for the question of whether future generations will have a good life.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
The fight for the forest
It was up to the power company, RWE, is also to soft, the last remnant of the hambach forest is the brown coal mining. The time may be not cleared, but the last word is not yet spoken. The climate-Alliance Germany had therefore called on celebrities, for the preservation of the forest. Your Portraits (here: TV chef Sarah Wiener) hang a symbol on the trees.
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
For Climate Protection: An Actor Benno Fürmann
At the time of Benno Fürmann is to be seen in the TV series “Babylon Berlin”. The actor is fighting publicly for climate protection: “climate change is already a major burden, particularly for the poorest people in the global South. The policy is to the people here and around the world are guilty of, to take the threat seriously and to act.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
To him it is All or nothing: the cavern Beatles, music, cabaret artist and singer-songwriter
“When I was in the summer and with the Activists spoke, it was immediately clear to me: This forest is a forest with symbolic content. Here it is not just about trees, it’s about the big picture,” says the comedian Bodo Wartke.
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
Fighting for women’s rights: Monika Hauser, a Physician, and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize
“The forest is only the beginning. Thousands of people are forced, for one-day lift build your home, over centuries, the village communities are being destroyed. For the residents, these relocations are very stressful, and mentally. It makes you wonder, why all this still needs to be – now that the coal phaseout.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
Eco-friendly light: The artist Olafur Eliasson founded the “Little Sun”
Since 2012, Little Sun takes care of “” to deliver to people without power, with energy. “If Germany says it is serious about sustainability, it needs to stop, brown coal – the most polluting fossil fuel – to reduce. More than 12,000 years of the hambach forest has been used for its present appearance. When he’s gone, he’s gone. The energy transition must be done now.”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
Against coal as a climate killer: Johannes Strate of the Band “Revolverheld”
“The energy group RWE would destroy the most species-rich forests of this country, to be able to (…) its power plants, with Germany’s climate killer number 1, of lignite or brown coal feed. Have (…) droughts and heavy rain demonstrated that action must be taken (…). In Germany, this means: switch off the dirtiest coal-fired plants now, ( … ), and the renewable energies continue to expand!”
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Celebrities set an example for the hambach forest
The “forest-maker”: Tony Rinaudo, an agricultural economist and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize in 2018
Rinaudo turned barren landscapes into forests and arable land: “forests can be of great importance for the health, they provide us with clean air and clean water, you can protect us from floods and provide birds and insects a home. How we deal today with our forests is crucial for the question of whether future generations will have a good life.”
Who now falls in the hambach forest a tree that brings, under certain circumstances, a Prominent: Over 60 images of alternative Nobel prize winners and prominent figures from the culture slopes for the 23. October on the trunks of the Book in the hambach forest. The well-known faces have taken over stewardship of the trees – an activity of the climate-Alliance Germany against the other brown coal mining in the area.
The present hambach forest is the last piece of a huge forest area, which is like the excavators in the Rhenish brown coal opencast mining to the victim. For years, environmentalists and activists occupying the forest, build tree-houses and roadblocks to protest against power companies such as RWE and the climate policy of the Federal government.
The forest is not yet saved
The Tree spade, here presenter Enie de Meiklokjes, are attached to the trunks.
Recently, the environmentalist reached stop by a court order to a Clearing. “After that in October there were wide protests from the population and then the court decision came out, many thought that the forest was saved – but the grubbing-up stop has given us only a respite,” says Julia Dittman, co-organizer of the Celebrity action. Now it is necessary to protect the hambach forest by an early Coal phase-final.
The climate-Alliance Germany has asked well-known artists from Film, art and music, and immediately a lot of Commitments. Among the Celebrities such as the actor Benno Führmann, the TV cook Sarah Wiener (our picture above), the Director Doris Dörrie, the band Revolverheld, stand-up comedian Winfried Schmickler, and the artist Ólafur Elíasson.
“The Celebrities want to show the insert and the face,” says Dittmann. This is not just the forest. “Many villages are still to be for brown coal-day-build destroyed and thousands of people to lose their homes,“ fears the climate activist.
The tree sponsors in the hambach forest: With celebrities a
The hambach forest, an international theme
The climate Alliance is an Alliance for climate protection. The Alliance includes 115 member organisations from the fields of environmental, Church, education, culture and trade unions, the campaign for an ambitious climate policy and a successful turnaround in energy policy on the local, national, European and international level.
The deforestation in the hambach forest is far beyond the borders of Germany to an international topic of conversation, especially in the social networks. Therefore, many carriers have indoor and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize from all over the world the action connected, including Monika Hauser, a Physician and founder of the women’s rights organization “medica mondiale”. “We want to show with the pictures that quite a lot of behind our action, and there is a broad agreement,” says Julia Dittmann of the climate-Alliance Germany.
Climate Commission checks on the spot
Monika Hauser, winner of the alternative Nobel prize, is the tree of godmother.
The Prominent action was deliberately started a day before the visit to the coal Commission in the Rhine area. The Commission aims to make the Transition to the exit strategy from Coal in a socially responsible manner and thus contribute to fulfil the objectives of the Paris climate agreement as quickly as possible.
The clearing of the stop is valid only once for this grubbing-up of the season and not permanently. First, the courts must decide whether the hambach forest is recognised, in accordance with European directives as a nature reserve. The judgment is yet to be established.