Webinars at May 24th and 31st – EU Taxonomy: Green Gas and Nuclear are dirty lies!

The European Union is drafting a regulation for the classification of sustainable finance products, the so-called Taxonomy. This sounds boring and bureaucratic, but it is actually one of the most significant projects of recent years and an important building block of the Green New Deal. Accordingly, the natural gas and nuclear lobbies, as well as various European countries, are trying hard to have their dirty technologies classified as sustainable. It‘s their ultimate attempt of greenwashing – with implications far beyond the financial sector and disastrous consequences for the climate and the environment.

In this webinar, we present the current state of the taxonomy, look at its meaning, and highlight the impact of gas and nuclear lobbies on the process. We examine the role of the EU member states and their backstage bargaining – and we will discuss the role of the climate justice movement in this context.

The taxonomy shows: it is important to address even this seemingly boring endeavor. Together, the climate justice movement must scandalize the processes around the taxonomy and increase public pressure to prevent the inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear.

The webinars will be held one time in German and one time in English:
German: Monday, May 24, 7 pm CEST (Julian Bothe / . ausgestrahlt)
English: Monday, May 31, 7 pm CEST (Julian Bothe /. ausgestrahlt; Frida Kieninger / Food and Water Action Europe)

Dial in via BigBlueButton: https://conference.sixtopia.net/b/koo-w6d-ahq

More Information: https://climatejusticeagainstnuclear.noblogs.org/post/2021/05/14/eu-taxonomy-nuclear-is-not-a-sustainable-investment/

We are looking forward to meet you and to kick the gas and nuclear lobby in the ass!

The preparation team

EU Taxonomy without nuclear power and fossil gas!

Accordingly, the natural gas and nuclear lobbies, as well as various European countries, are trying hard to have their dirty technologies classified as sustainable. Against these forces, it is important to create public pressure to counter the possible inclusion of both fossil gas and nuclear power in the taxonomy !

As a first step, we organise two webinars on the current state of the EU-Taxonomy and the role of the climate justice movement in this context: EU Taxonomy – Green Gas and Nuclear are dirty lies!

Dial in via BigBlueButton: https://conference.sixtopia.net/b/koo-w6d-ahq

We are looking forward to meet you and to kick the gas and nuclear lobby in the ass!

On the deadline March 1, 83 groups from climate justice movement in 15 countries have signed the Antinuclear statement

On the deadline March 1, 83 groups from climate justice movement in 15 countries have signed the Antinuclear statement. This is a great success and a strong sign against nuclear power.

The process for the statement started in 2020 at a meeting of the Climate Justice Action (CJA), a network of international grassroots mouvements fighting for global climate justice. The participants shared the analysis that the nuclear lobby tried to push for a renaissance of nuclear power as a solution for the climate crisis. The climate justice movement needed to confront this attempt with a strong united action. The statement is our first step against nuclear power.

The statement gets presented to the wider public on March 11, the 10^th anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe. Please share it in your networks and your (social) media.

The process of the statement is still ongoing. If your group wants to sign, write an email with the name of the group and the country to climatejusticeagainstnuclear@riseup.net

In English

Don’t nuke the climate
– European statement against nuclear power and for climate justice

In the midst of the climate crisis the nuclear lobby advertises nuclear power as a supposedly easy solution to the climate problem. As activists from climate justice and anti-nuclear movements all over Europe, we know that this is utterly wrong. We therefore declare:

The fight for climate justice is a fight against the status quo. Nuclear power is part of the political and economic system that is leading us towards multiple catastrophes.

- There is no such thing as ‘civil’ nuclear power – nuclear energy is and has always been closely connected to military use.
- The nuclear industry continues a centuries-long tradition of violent colonialism and deepening inequality, both in the Global South and in the Global North.
- Nuclear energy ignores human rights and rights of nature – for example by violating indigenous land rights.
- Nuclear power embodies a centralized and anti-democratic relation to energy usage, that prevents energy democracy with real democratic debate on energy production, distribution and consumption.
- Nuclear power is premised on the assumption of continued economic growth which is fundamentally unsustainable.
- Nuclear power will never be able to stop the climate crisis: it is dirty, slow, expensive, and dangerous for all living beings on Earth, including plants and animals – not least present and future generations of humans.
- Nuclear power distracts from the transformation we want and need, and it hinders the necessary transition to a just and sustainable energy system based on renewables, thus worsening the climate crisis.

Nuclear power shows the fundamental injustices on which our societies are constructed. In sum, it embodies everything we oppose in global industrial capitalism. This is why we, a diverse group of collectives fighting for climate justice, declare our opposition to nuclear power.

List of signees

Don’t nuke the climate – join the statement and spread the word!

Dear activists of the climate justice movements.

While the climate crisis is becoming more and more obvious, a well-known broken promise is propagated once more: again, nuclear power is supposed to fix the misery.

As activists from climate justice and anti-nuclear movements all over Europe we know that this is utterly wrong and harmful. In order to communicate this to the outside world and in due time for the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima reactor disaster on the 11th of March, a joint statement by the European climate justice movement is being issued: “Don’t Nuke the Climate”.

The statement has been initiated by activists from the climate justice groups in several European countries. The idea is that within the European climate justice movement, as many groups as possible sign the statement. We would like to show that as a movement we will not allow ourselves to be divided. To achieve climate justice, we need a fast transition to a just and sustainable energy system based on 100 per cent renewables – and to get rid of all fossil-nuclear fuels, be it coal, oil, fossil gas or uranium.

Therefore: Please read the statement, sign it and forward it! You can sign from now until the 1st of march by simply emailing to climatejusticeagainstnuclear@riseup.net (please give your group name and your country). The current list of signatories, further background information and translations of the statement can be found at: https://climatejusticeagainstnuclear.noblogs.org/

Shortly before the 10th anniversary of Fukushima on March 11th we would like to send the statement and an accompanying press release to the press in the various countries. On the anniversary we would like to encourage you to use your webpages and social media channels to spread the word.

There will already be a joint kick-off event at the end of January: on Thursday, January 28th, at 8:00 p.m., the statement will be presented in an online event. After an input on the nuclear debate in various European countries, there will be time for questions and exchange about how to proceed. Join us at
https://conference.sixtopia.net/b/koo-w6d-ahq

We are looking forward to your participation!

Don’t nuke the climate – European statement against nuclear power and for climate justice

Don’t nuke the climate
– European statement against nuclear power and for climate justice