Draft law amending the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act<\/a>) 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\nFor 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Let's stop the CCS law together!<\/strong><\/p>\nWe call on the members of the Bundestag and the state governments to:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 No adoption of the Act amending the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act
\n\u2022 Fastest possible exit from natural gas, coal and oil, especially in industry
\n\u2022 No softening of the sea protection agreements London Protocol and High Seas Transfer Act for CCS
\n\u2022 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.<\/p>\nSign in here:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
(The list will be updated)<\/p>\n
Action Alliance \"Stop Westcastor\"
\nAction alliance Energiewende Heilbronn
\nAction Alliance M\u00fcnsterland against Nuclear Plants
\nAction Alliance of Stommeln citizens \"Life without lignite\"
\nAnti-nuclear group Freiburg
\nWorking Group Environment (AKU) Gronau
\nWorking Group Environmental Protection Bochum e.V. (AkU)
\nattac Germany
\nBerlin water table
\nBochum Climate Protection Alliance (BoKlima)
\nBremer Weserkahn Franzius e.V.
\nBuirer for Buir
\nAssociation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) e.V.
\nBUND district group North Frisia
\nBUND district group Rh\u00f6n-Grabfeld
\nBUND State Association of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg
\nBUND Regional Association of Berlin
\nBUND State Association of Brandenburg
\nBUND Regional Association of Bremen
\nBUND Regional Association of Hamburg
\nBUND State Association of Hesse
\nBUND State Association of Lower Saxony
\nFederal Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (BUND)
\nBUND Rhineland-Palatinate
\nBUND State Association of Schleswig-Holstein
\nBUND Nature Conservation
\nFederal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for the Environment (BBU)
\nBundesverband f\u00fcr Umweltberatung e.V. (bfub)
\nBUNDYouth
\nCitizens\u2019 initiative \u2018No Fracking\u2019 in the V\u00f6lkersen natural gas field
\nCitizens' Initiative Flecken Langwedel against gas drilling
\nCitizens' Initiative against CO2 Repositories
\nCitizens' Initiative Intschede Wesermarsch without drilling rigs
\nCitizens' Initiative Lintler Geest against gas drilling
\nCitizens' Initiative Red Hand Thedinghausen\/Achim
\nCitizens' Initiative Clean Air Ostfriesland e.V.
\nCitizens' Initiative Clean Environment & Energy Altmark
\nCitizens' initiative Walle against gas drilling
\nDageb\u00fcller National Park Waddle Guide
\nDeutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.
\nEcosia GmbH
\nEnergy Watch Group, President Hans-Josef Fell
\nEuropean Energy Transition Community e.V.
\nExtinction rebellion
\nForum Environment and Development
\nFridays for Future Regensburg
\nMunicipality of Dageb\u00fcll
\nNon-profit environmental protection association pro Gr\u00fcn e.V. Paderborn
\nEconomics of the Common Good Berlin-Brandenburg (GWU)
\nGreen Planet Energy eG
\nGreenpeace e.V.
\nGreenTEC Campus
\nHamburger Energietisch e.V.
\nClimate change in Flensburg
\nClimate alliance Brandenburg
\nConcept work New Economy
\nKulturPflanzen e.V
\nLandesverband B\u00fcrgerinitiativen Umwelt (LBU) Niedersachsen e.V.
\nLENA Landsberger Energie Agentur e.V
\nLast generation Regensburg
\nLocal AGENDA21 in Feldkirchen-Westerham
\nMannheim Coal-free
\nMannheimZero (Germany)
\nReusable association Germany e.V.
\nNeighbourhood Initiative KA!SERN
\nNatureFriends of Germany e.V.
\nNature conservation association S\u00fcdtondern e.V.
\nNutzwerk Hamburg Global e.V.
\nEcumenical Work of the North Church
\nEcumenical Network on Climate Justice
\nParents for Future Nordfriesland
\nPowerShift e.V.
\nRegional Energy and Climate Protection Agency e.V
\nRobin Wood
\nRoundtable Renewable Energy (RT-EE)
\nSC Sustainable Concepts GmbH, Dr.Hubert Aulich, President
\nWadden Sea protection station
\nScientists4Future Schleswig-Holstein\/Kiel
\nSEA ME GmbH (operator: in zerooo reusable system)
\nSOFA (Immediate nuclear phase-out) M\u00fcnster
\nSolarverein Goldene Meile e.V.
\nSPPK (UG) & Co. KG
\nEnvironmental Institute of Munich
\nUrgewald e.V.
\nAssociation for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in the Middle North Frisia e.V.
\nFuture workshop Wilhelmshaven e.V.<\/p>\n
International organisations:<\/strong>
\nAbibiNsroma Foundation (Ghana)
\nAirClim (Sweden)
\nAssociation pour la Conservation et la Protection des \u00c9cosyst\u00e8mes des Lacs et l\u2019Agriculture Durable (DRC)
\nBiofuelwatch (International)
\nCenter for International Environmental Law (CIEL) (USA \/ international)
\nClimate Action for Lifelong Learners (CALL) (Canada)
\nComit\u00e9 Schone Lucht (Netherlands)
\nEarth Ethics, Inc. (USA)
\nEarth Thrive (UK)
\nLeefmilieu (Netherlands)
\nLimity jsme my! (Czech Republic)
\nMilj\u00f8foreningen Havns\u00f8-F\u00f8llenslev (Denmark)
\nMobilisation for the Environment (Netherlands)
\nNOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark (Denmark)
\nNorwegian Forum for Development and the Environment (Norway)
\nOil Change International (International)
\nSpire (Norway)
\nStowarzyszenie Ekologiczne EKO-UNIA (Poland)
\nZero Waste Europe (International)<\/p>\nSupporting experts:<\/strong>
\nAndy Gheorghiu Consulting
\nProf. Dr. Gunther Seckmeyer, Managing Director of the Institute of Meteorology and Climatology at Leibniz University Hannover
\nProf. Dr. sc. agr. habil. Kerstin Wydra, Chair of Plant Construction in Climate Change, Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
\nProf. J\u00fcrg Rohrer, Prof. for Ecological Engineering, Head of Research Group for Renewable Energy, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences<\/p>\nMore background information?
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