in the World had, it is making significant cities already. The city has a call in Germany the climate state of emergency.
Konstanz – As the first city in Germany to revoke the constancy of the climate state of emergency. As a spokesman for the student movement “Fridays for the Future,” Constance announced on Thursday evening, summed up by the municipal Council on their Initiative to a unanimous decision. The city of Konstanz, by doing so, all the decisions in a climate of ownership.
Like the city on the short-messaging service Twitter announced, has been entrusted to the municipal administration, additional measures to implement the decision. You should give out information of the “Fridays for Future” in the future, an annual Report on progress in the avoidance of CO2 emissions.
the municipal Council of The city of Konstanz approved the Resolution for the Declaration of a climate state of emergency with the order, the additional measures.
— city of Konstanz (@Stadt_Konstanz) May 2, 2019
After this pattern had previously decided already, the cities of Vancouver, Oakland, London, and Basel to the climate emergency. The months of ongoing student demonstrations of the “Fridays for Future” can be recorded in Germany a major political success. “The Declaration of a climate state of emergency by the Constance Council is an important sign for the whole of Germany”, explained the organizers in the baden-württemberg town.
Constance calls out climate emergency – and is reaping mixed reactions: “On the way to the madhouse”
The responses to the customer from Konstanz, is mixed. Ricarda Lang, the spokeswoman of the Green youth, praised the “sensible” decision on Twitter: “We are in the midst of a crisis, it is time that we conduct ourselves accordingly.” Left-Boss Katja Kipping is using the news from lake Constance, meanwhile, a new expropriation in advance.
If the #of Constance declares #climate emergency, the question of the #expropriation to the question of the common good. Auto companies that earned billions with air pollution by fraud, should be afraid of socialization, if you do not present a net-Zero Plan for their cars. https://t.co/EH8kJdDF13
— Katja Kipping (@Katja Kipping) May 3, 2019
Frank Pasemann, a member of the AfD group in the Bundestag, rants on Twitter about a “democratic nightmare”: “the Democratically elected councillors of ideology-driven climate-sect. The climate does not change! Germany is well on the way to the madhouse.“ Nonetheless Unusually, it is not really that citizens – and people’s representations of the mood among their voters and interest groups influence.
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Juso-chief Kevin Kühnert has defended its socialism-theories and the SPD asked to lead the debate on the offensive.
