- Germany’s well-organised climate protection movements, which enjoy broad public support, are rallying around the town of Lützerath, which is under threat from coal strip mining and slated for demolition.
- The core aspect of the agreement between the government and RWE was to turn off two coal power plants with a capacity of 3 Gigawatts (GW) in 2030, eight years earlier than the current legal framework foresaw.
- For the climate activists, though, protecting the town from strip mining for coal has become synonymous with staying on track to meet the 1.5 °C targets set out by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Lützerath: How the government broke German climate activists’ hearts
