Together against the fossil error. Stop the CCS Act. Real climate protection solutions now.
The climate crisis is progressing. Its main cause: The ongoing burning of coal, oil and gas. But instead of continuing the urgently needed phase-out of fossil fuels, the German government is planning to invest billions of taxpayers' money in a technology that would prevent this phase-out or at least severely delay it: CCS. The abbreviation CCS stands for Carbon Capture and Storage – the capture and underground landfilling of CO2.
The Federal Government's bill (Draft law amending the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act) would allow refineries, power plants, waste incineration plants and production facilities for plastics, fertilisers or cement to build CO2 capture plants and transport the captured CO2 to final storage sites via pipelines, trains and ships – in the North Sea and potentially on land. The draft law aims at the development of large commercial CO2 capture plants, the construction of CO2 landfills and the construction of a nationwide pipeline network throughout Germany, to which every issuer would have a right of connection – regardless of whether its CO2 emissions could not also be avoided from the outset. The more CO2 generated, the more profitable the business with CCS will be.
For this plan, the London Convention would be softened, a marine protection convention that prohibits the export of waste. Information, participation and legal rights of the population are also to be curtailed and expropriations for CO2 pipelines are to be facilitated. According to the draft law, the needs of these CO2 landfills are above marine protection. CO2 pipelines through the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site are to be made possible. This bill does not contribute to climate protection, but, on the contrary, poses a threat to real climate protection.
CCS is an end-of-pipe technique that does not capture pre-chain emissions from the continued use of natural gas. This applies in particular to the extremely climate-damaging methane, which is released into the atmosphere in large quantities in the course of natural gas production. Carbon capture is also never complete, so significant amounts of CO2 continue to be emitted into the atmosphere despite CCS. CCS cannot therefore make an effective contribution to climate protection.
Injecting hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 under the seabed poses unpredictable risks to humans and the environment and unpredictable monitoring problems. In the event of leaks, a network of thousands of kilometres of CO2 pipelines through densely populated areas endangers the lives and health of people and animals. Countries and municipalities face enormous planning costs as a result of the area-intensive infrastructure expansion, not to mention the destruction of nature that goes hand in hand with it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change considers CCS to be the most expensive attempt to reduce CO2 emissions. He describes the effectiveness as uncertain. Experience so far shows: Worldwide, CCS projects have failed. The high energy consumption, high residual emissions and the predominant use in oil and gas production ensure that CCS harms the climate and the environment. However, the Federal Government is planning billions in subsidies for CCS installations and infrastructure.
The CCS route is dangerous for people and the environment. It is exacerbating the climate crisis, polluting the oceans and endangering the energy transition. The fossil fuel industry will benefit in particular. The costs in the billions must be borne by society.
Let's stop the CCS law together!
We call on the members of the Bundestag and the state governments to:
• No adoption of the Act amending the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act
• Fastest possible exit from natural gas, coal and oil, especially in industry
• No softening of the sea protection agreements London Protocol and High Seas Transfer Act for CCS
• All power in energy saving and energy sufficiency, the nature-friendly expansion of renewable energies up to 100%, resource-efficient production, circular economy and priority for natural climate protection.
Sign in here:
Signatory organisations, initiatives, communities, companies
(The list will be updated)
Action Alliance "Stop Westcastor"
Action alliance Energiewende Heilbronn
Action Alliance Münsterland against Nuclear Plants
Action Alliance of Stommeln citizens "Life without lignite"
Anti-nuclear group Freiburg
Working Group Environment (AKU) Gronau
Working Group Environmental Protection Bochum e.V. (AkU)
attac Germany
Berlin water table
Bochum Climate Protection Alliance (BoKlima)
Bremer Weserkahn Franzius e.V.
Buirer for Buir
Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) e.V.
BUND district group North Frisia
BUND district group Rhön-Grabfeld
BUND State Association of Baden-Württemberg
BUND Regional Association of Berlin
BUND State Association of Brandenburg
BUND Regional Association of Bremen
BUND Regional Association of Hamburg
BUND State Association of Hesse
BUND State Association of Lower Saxony
Federal Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (BUND)
BUND Rhineland-Palatinate
BUND State Association of Schleswig-Holstein
BUND Nature Conservation
Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for the Environment (BBU)
Bundesverband für Umweltberatung e.V. (bfub)
BUNDYouth
Citizens’ initiative ‘No Fracking’ in the Völkersen natural gas field
Citizens' Initiative Flecken Langwedel against gas drilling
Citizens' Initiative against CO2 Repositories
Citizens' Initiative Intschede Wesermarsch without drilling rigs
Citizens' Initiative Lintler Geest against gas drilling
Citizens' Initiative Red Hand Thedinghausen/Achim
Citizens' Initiative Clean Air Ostfriesland e.V.
Citizens' Initiative Clean Environment & Energy Altmark
Citizens' initiative Walle against gas drilling
Dagebüller National Park Waddle Guide
Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.
Ecosia GmbH
Energy Watch Group, President Hans-Josef Fell
European Energy Transition Community e.V.
Extinction rebellion
Forum Environment and Development
Fridays for Future Regensburg
Municipality of Dagebüll
Non-profit environmental protection association pro Grün e.V. Paderborn
Economics of the Common Good Berlin-Brandenburg (GWU)
Green Planet Energy eG
Greenpeace e.V.
GreenTEC Campus
Hamburger Energietisch e.V.
Climate change in Flensburg
Climate alliance Brandenburg
Concept work New Economy
KulturPflanzen e.V
Landesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umwelt (LBU) Niedersachsen e.V.
LENA Landsberger Energie Agentur e.V
Last generation Regensburg
Local AGENDA21 in Feldkirchen-Westerham
Mannheim Coal-free
MannheimZero (Germany)
Reusable association Germany e.V.
Neighbourhood Initiative KA!SERN
NatureFriends of Germany e.V.
Nature conservation association Südtondern e.V.
Nutzwerk Hamburg Global e.V.
Ecumenical Work of the North Church
Ecumenical Network on Climate Justice
Parents for Future Nordfriesland
PowerShift e.V.
Regional Energy and Climate Protection Agency e.V
Robin Wood
Roundtable Renewable Energy (RT-EE)
SC Sustainable Concepts GmbH, Dr.Hubert Aulich, President
Wadden Sea protection station
Scientists4Future Schleswig-Holstein/Kiel
SEA ME GmbH (operator: in zerooo reusable system)
SOFA (Immediate nuclear phase-out) Münster
Solarverein Goldene Meile e.V.
SPPK (UG) & Co. KG
Environmental Institute of Munich
Urgewald e.V.
Association for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in the Middle North Frisia e.V.
Future workshop Wilhelmshaven e.V.
International organisations:
AbibiNsroma Foundation (Ghana)
AirClim (Sweden)
Association pour la Conservation et la Protection des Écosystèmes des Lacs et l’Agriculture Durable (DRC)
Biofuelwatch (International)
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) (USA / international)
Climate Action for Lifelong Learners (CALL) (Canada)
Comité Schone Lucht (Netherlands)
Earth Ethics, Inc. (USA)
Earth Thrive (UK)
Leefmilieu (Netherlands)
Limity jsme my! (Czech Republic)
Miljøforeningen Havnsø-Føllenslev (Denmark)
Mobilisation for the Environment (Netherlands)
NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark (Denmark)
Norwegian Forum for Development and the Environment (Norway)
Oil Change International (International)
Spire (Norway)
Stowarzyszenie Ekologiczne EKO-UNIA (Poland)
Zero Waste Europe (International)
Supporting experts:
Andy Gheorghiu Consulting
Prof. Dr. Gunther Seckmeyer, Managing Director of the Institute of Meteorology and Climatology at Leibniz University Hannover
Prof. Dr. sc. agr. habil. Kerstin Wydra, Chair of Plant Construction in Climate Change, Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Jürg Rohrer, Prof. for Ecological Engineering, Head of Research Group for Renewable Energy, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
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