Environmental activists demand closure of Germany's coal power stations by 2030
Three days before environment ministers from around the world gather in Bonn for United Nations talks on how to save the Paris climate accord, activists in Germany on Friday, November 3, demanded the closure of all brown coal power stations by 2030.
Some two dozen environmentalists gathered for a protest organised by the "BUND" organisation near the western German Neurath plant which they called "Germany's number one climate killer."
Spokesman for the German Federation of the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) Dirk Jansen said that if Germany fails to shut all of its coal power plants by 2030, it will "miserably fail to achieve our climate protection goals which would also be a devastating signal to the world community."
The 2015 Paris agreement was dealt a major blow in June when President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of the accord.
The United States, the world's second highest gas emitter after China, is the only one of the deal's 195 original backers to pull out.
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