This are sad news.

#^German activists lose bid to halt Hambach mine expansion | DW Environment | DW | 24.11.2017

An environmental group has failed in its legal bid to stop the controversial expansion of Germany's biggest lignite mine. Activists say the operation threatens the Hambach forest, home to a number of endangered species.

I am living on a hill in Bonn. On one side when looking down to the Rhine you can see the area where #COP23 took place. When you go to the other side you can spot the chimneys of these coal power plants. Would have been more honest if they would have build up the tent city for COP23 inside the open-pit mine. Enough space would have been there.

It is fascinating that employees get told that the changing conditions forces them to accept more and more flexible and liberal working conditions, but these same corporations insist on plans from the 1970s to dig a hole until 2045 despite the fact that coal must phase out soon and alternative technologies evolve with a rapid speed and could even faster if efforts would get accelerated. For sure it will not last until 2045. If markets would work I would say that we might be lucky and they are bankrupt before the last part of the forest got harvested, but I don't believe this will happen.

An interesting article

#^How would Bonn's prehistoric residents have seen the COP23 climate summit? | News | DW | 18.11.2017

How would Bonn's prehistoric residents have viewed the UN's climate conference from their clifftop lookout over the Rhine? Looking back 14,000 years, Ian Johnson offers a different perspective on Earth’s climate drama.

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#^COP23: Canada and UK launch anti-coal alliance in Bonn | DW Environment | DW | 16.11.2017

Twenty countries and two US states have joined the "Powering Past Coal" alliance at the penultimate day of the UN climate summit, promising phase-outs. Conspicuously absent from that list: Germany.

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#^COP23: Corporations and lobbyists welcome in Bonn | DW Environment | DW | 10.11.2017

Companies have a lot on the line at the Bonn climate summit - which is why they insert themselves into the negotiations. In the second installment of the COP Secret series, DW investigates lobbying at UN climate summits.

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#^Can we live in a world without fossil fuels? | DW Environment | DW | 09.11.2017

Is it possible to fulfill all our global energy needs with renewables only? And which technologies work best to help us transition to a world without fossil fuels? Scientists give answers at #COP23.

Germany will shrink by the size of eight football fields the next two weeks.

#^Climate conference the 23rd: Bigger, greener ... better? | DW Environment | DW | 04.11.2017

The UN city of Bonn is getting ready to host the global climate conference. With just a few days before the start of #COP23, what do participants, activists and residents expect?

They will serve vegetarian organic food from the region.

#^COP23: Thousands protest German coal use ahead of UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn | DW Environment | DW | 04.11.2017

Just days before the UN Climate Conference is due to get underway, thousands of people have protested in Bonn demanding Germany immediately phase-out its use of coal.

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