ベルリンで１万２０００人、独各地で気候変動に抗議

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドイツ全土で１５日、気候変動対策を求める運動「フライデーズ・フォー・フューチャー（未来のための金曜日）」が呼び掛けたデモが行われ、首都ベルリンでは約１万２０００人が参加した。（写真は独ベルリンで行われた「フライデーズ・フォー・フューチャー〈未来のための金曜日〉」のデモ行進）
　ハンブルクやミュンヘンなどの大都市でもそれぞれ１万人が行進した。参加者は「気候ではなく制度を変えろ」「地球が涼しければ私は今、学校にいる」などと書かれたプラカードを掲げた。
　かつて生徒や学生が授業を休んで抗議する「金曜日ストライキ」として始まった「フライデーズ・フォー・フューチャー」の集会だが、最近のドイツでは開催頻度が減っていた。代わりにより過激な行動が増加。交通量の多い交差点や高速道路での座り込みなどが行われている。
　ドイツは、２０４５年までに気候中立（温室効果ガス排出量の実質ゼロ化）を達成するという目標を掲げており、２０３０年までに１９９０年比で６５％削減するとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/09/19-16:40）

Tens of thousands of people rallied in cities across Germany on Friday at climate protests urging Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government to do more for environmental protection.
Bearing posters with slogans like System change -- not climate change or I'd be in school if the planet was cool, around 12,000 people marched in Berlin alone in a demonstration organised by the Fridays for Future movement.
Huge crowds reaching 10,000 also turned up in major cities including Hamburg and Munich.
Once a regular event for students holding school strikes, the Friday rallies have become less frequent in Germany lately, with some climate activists turning instead to more radical modes of protests, such as holding sit-ins at busy road junctions or on highways.
Paul Guenther, 19, said he had turned up at the Berlin rally to condemn the dishonesty of our chancellor with regard to the climate crisis.
A council of experts had calculated that the government's targets are too weak and even then, they can't even meet them with what they're doing, the geography university student said.
Retiree Birgit Martens, 65, also noted that the government is not doing enough to meet its own climate targets.
Our planet is under threat and the government is not taking enough action against the current climate crisis, said Josephine Paeder, 38, who works in the public transport sector.
Germany has set a goal of becoming climate neutral by 2045, with emissions to be slashed by 65 percent compared to 1990 levels by 2030.