Ende Gelände 2017 Explained

Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out.

- environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines:

• From 24 to 29 August 2017, about persons blocked a mine owned by RWE in the Rhineland coalfields.^{[1] [2]}
• On 5 November 2017 (for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference), around persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.^{[3] [4]}

Context

On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015).^{[5] [6]}

On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, activists blocked the Welzow-Süd open-pit coal mine and the coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station, then owned by Vattenfall (Spremberg).^[7]

See also

• Climate disobedience
• Climate justice
• Energy transition (in Germany)
• Ende Gelände
• Ende Gelände 2016
• Ende Gelände 2018
• Fossil fuel divestment
• Hambach Forest

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. https://www.ende-gelaende.org/en/press-release/press-release-august-30-2017/ "Action days in the Rhineland coalfields come to a close + 6000 people in diverse and powerful protest against lignite mining"
2. Molly Flening, "Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany", The Independent, 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
3. https://www.ende-gelaende.org/en/press-release/press-release-7-11-2017/ "On Sunday Ende Gelände successfully blocked the Hambach lignite mine"
4. Jonathan Watts, "Germany's dirty coalmines become the focus for a new wave of direct action", The Guardian, 8 November 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
5. John Jordan, "The day we stopped Europe's biggest polluter in its tracks", The Guardian, Thursday 27 August 2015 (page visited in 28 September 2016).
6. https://350.org/ende-gelande-wrap-up/ Ende Gelände 2015
7. https://www.ende-gelaende.org/en/press-release/press-release-15-may-2016/ Mass action blocking German lignite mining finishes after 48 hours