Lecture & Discussion: Demands and Challenges for Climate Activism in Germany and the U.S.

Project number:

24-0708

Speaker:

Prof. Sabine von Mering

Date:

Monday, 8 Juli 2024, 2:30 p.m.

Place:

Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
Room 15-SR1

Language:

English

Registration:

Free admission, no registration needed.

In cooperation with:

Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld

Partner:

This event is kindly supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The young activists of Fridays for Future, with Luisa Neubauer as a figurehead, are by far the most prominent climate activists in Germany today. Other movements like Ende Gelaende or Letzte Generation are less well-known even if their spectacular civil disobedience actions occasionally receive media coverage. They are united in their goal to get Germany to exit coal. Although Fridays for Future is an international movement with active groups worldwide, they are largely unknown in the US, where the climate movement has been focused primarily on tar sands, oil, and gas pipelines, and typically attracted an older generation of activists. In her lecture, Professor von Mering will present an overview of the similarities and differences between the climate movement in Germany and the US and zoom in on the current efforts to build a transatlantic climate activist bridge against the expansion of fossil gas through LNG terminals.

In our event series Climate in Crisis, we are looking at the challenges of climate change and how the U.S. is dealing with climate protection measures, environmental activism and climate (in)justice.