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German climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick intends to continue his hunger strike following treatment in hospital, as he called for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take a stronger official position on climate change. The ongoing strike was announced on Tuesday morning by the campaign "Starve until you are honest." The 49-year-old was taken to hospital on Monday evening due to a circulatory collapse after 89 days of hunger strike. However, his condition was stabilized in hospital. He returned to the activists' camp at the Economy Ministry in Berlin. Metzeler-Kick said: "I had already decided befor...
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A climate activist taking part in a hunger strike in Berlin has been taken to hospital, according to the campaign "Starve until you are honest." Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick, 49, was taken to the German Armed Forces' hospital, the campaign announced on Monday evening. He has been on hunger strike for 89 days and a team of doctors looking after him recently said his life was seriously at risk. Several campaign activists have been on hunger strike in Berlin for weeks and some of them are in a serious state of health. The activists want German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to issue a government statement on t...
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Thousands of people gathered in Berlin on Friday for a demonstration organized by the climate activist movement Fridays for Future. Police estimates placed the crowd at more than 5,000 people, while organizers estimated a turnout of more than 13,000. The rally started in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin's government district. Participants at the demonstration demanded more urgent action to address climate change. Organizers also called for the defence of democratic values and a fight against far-right extremism. With the European Union elections scheduled in nine days, Frid...
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A public discussion with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a Catholic gathering in the city of Erfurt was disrupted by protesters from the radical climate activist group Last Generation on Friday. Last Generation activists heckled Scholz with slogans like "Democracy needs honesty" and "Don't you care about my future?" for about 10 minutes at the start of his talk before a crowd of about 800 people. Scholz attempted to remain stoic. "You need to shut up for a moment," he said on stage. "Then I'll answer the question." After the protesters were removed, Scholz addressed audience questions about a...
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The Fridays for Future movement aims to demonstrate for climate protection and democracy in Germany on Friday. With the European elections scheduled in nine days, protests are to take place in around 100 cities in Germany, the organization says. Protests are planned in 13 other EU countries by July 7. The movement is calling for an EU-wide phase-out of coal, oil and gas by 2035 and a doubling of investment in renewable energies and climate-neutral industries. The new European Parliament must take a clear stance in favour of climate protection and democracy, Frieda Egeling, spokeswoman of Frida...
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A group of Swiss women plaintiffs is demanding that the government implement a climate judgment in their favour by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The women from the group Klimaseniorinnen (the Association of Climate Seniors) threatened on Wednesday to report the Swiss government to the Council of Europe if it failed to act on the decision The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is tasked with monitoring the implementation of such judgements The Court in Strasbourg ruled in favour of the plaintiffs at the beginning of April, stating that states can be prosecuted for hum...
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One of the climate protesters on hunger strike to demand the German government take more action is in acute danger of dying, according to the campaigners. After 83 days without eating, 49-year-old Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick is still responsive, but physically very weak, activists from the "Starve until you are honest" campaign announced on Tuesday. His volunteer medical team has handed over responsibility for his medical care. Nevertheless, he is determined to continue the hunger strike, they said. Three other men are currently on hunger strike alongside Metzeler-Kick. Two others have ended their ...
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A second participant in a long-running German climate hunger strike campaign has abandoned the action. Activist Tin justified the decision with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's reaction - or lack thereof - to the severe flooding in the Saarland region in the west of the country, the campaign announced on Wednesday evening. Although it was clear that such storms were now more severe due to the climate crisis, the chancellor had not said a word about it, Tin said. "If Olaf Scholz is standing in the middle of the truth with rubber boots on and still can't say it, then I doubt that my death will pe...
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A public prosecutor in Germany charged five members of the Last Generation climate activism group on suspicion of forming a criminal organization, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The charges are based on attacks on the PCK oil refinery in Schwedt in Brandenburg to the north-east of Berlin, the capital city's BER airport and the Barberini Museum in Potsdam just outside Berlin, between April 2022 and May 2023. The prosecutor for the town of Neuruppin in Brandenburg is also bringing charges for disrupting public businesses, coercion and damage to property. "The accusation concerns the ac...
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Man-made greenhouse gases constitute pollution of the oceans according to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and states are obliged to take measures against such pollution, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea said in a landmark decision on Tuesday. The Hamburg-based UN court was asked to issue an opinion on the extent to which states are obliged by international law to take stronger measures in the fight against climate change. It was requested by a group of nine small island states in the Pacific and the Caribbean. The countries all see their existence threatened because s...
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