Uniper’s Power station Staudinger. Photo: Philipp Wedel CC BY-SA 3.0
Re agenda item 5: Resolution on the discharge of the members of Uniper SE’s Management Board for financial year 2019
Ethical Shareholders Germany moves not to discharge the members of the Management Board.
Reasons: The Management Board of Uniper SE does not meet the requirements of the Paris Climate Change Convention and the UN’s guiding principles for business and human rights. Uniper’s central business model, power generation using the fossil fuels coal and gas, makes a decisive contribution to climate change.
Datteln IV: Adherence to power plant highlights problems of relying on coal-fired power generation
In order to still get the Datteln IV coal-fired power plant on the grid despite the coal phase-out, Uniper has offered to shut down its remaining coal-fired power plant units. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/uniper-2/countermotion/
byChristian Russau, human rights activist and board member of Ethical Shareholders Germany
Foto: Rafi Bablan, CC BY 2.5
As Bayer takes advantages of the new german shareholder participation laws in times of Corona‘s social distancing, for us, who we are human rights activists, this year it is not possible to take an active part in Bayer‘s AGM to criticize Bayer‘s directory board directly as we did the last decades. But, nonetheless our critic is more important than ever. So, here we go:
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/bayer-en/pesticides-cancer-double-standards-and-what-bayer-has-to-do-with-the-amazons-rainforest-fires/
Press Release of 28 civil society organizations, including Ethical Shareholders Germany
The EU Regulation on the responsible supply of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold (3TG) from conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRA) is a crucial first step towards supply chains free from human rights abuse. The EU Regulation on the responsible supply of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold (3TG) from conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRA) was approved in 2017 and will enter into force in 2021. Before this date, the EU member states need to adopt measures to ensure the implementation of the Regulation. However, the first implementation measures being discussed by member states risk diluting the efficacy of the Regulation by concealing the list of companies subjected to it. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/press-release/civil-society-calls-for-transparency-on-the-companies-subjected-to-the-european-unions-regulation-on-the-supply-of-3tg-minerals/
Like the previous speakers I will also deliver this speech in English and then there will be a German translation.
My name is Varsha, I am 17 years old and an organiser for School Strike for Climate Australia. Since I was born, CO2 has risen from around 313 ppm to 407 ppm. It’s scary to know that without urgent emission reductions, we could reach a point of no return in just 10 years – when I will be 27.
Australia has suffered an unprecedented bushfire crisis this summer. We have faced walls of flames over 70 metres high. Our biggest cities have been blanketed in hazardous smoke, 35 people have died, over 2000 homes have been turned into ash and more than a billion animals have been killed. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/siemens-2/my-generation-and-future-generations-lives-are-on-the-line-speech-by-varsha-yajman/
Mr Kaeser, we were born in the same year. 1957. When I was a young woman and wanted to travel, I was told that the world would always be there. There was no rush. How times have changed for the youth of today and tomorrow.
In the four and a half years my husband and I have been operating two boats in the Whitsundays in the Great Barrier Reef, entire bays full of coral and fish have been wiped out by Cyclone Debbie – one of the strongest cyclones we’ve ever experienced. Cyclones are getting stronger and more intense because of climate change. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/siemens-2/siemens-will-be-known-as-accomplice-in-the-death-of-the-great-barrier-reef-speech-by-dr-lindsay-simpson/
Dear Sirs and madams, Dear managing board and supervisory board,
My name is Khadja Bedati, I speak for the Sahrawi Youth and the Association of ethical shareholders.
This is not the first time that I criticize Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s wind turbines in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, which were erected without the consent of the Sahrawi people. Last year, Mr Kaeser, you referred me to Siemens Gamesa and promised answers that I have not yet received. I am asking you for those answers today, you cannot continue to hide behind your subsidiary, in which you are the majority shareholder with a 67% stake. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/siemens-2/you-are-stabilising-the-illegal-occupation-speech-by-khadja-bedati/
Regarding Agenda Item 3: To ratify the acts of the members of the Managing Board
Ratification of the acts of the members of the Managing Board shall be denied.
Rationale:
The Managing Board of Siemens AG is not sufficiently fulfilling its responsibility with regard to developing more effective climate protection measures. Measures to date are not sufficient to make a contribution towards reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement or the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to which Siemens AG is committed.
Australia: Participation in the Adani Mine contradicts previous climate protection promises
The decision to supply rail signaling technology for the planned Adani coal mine in Australia is an example of the lack of awareness for the problems associated with participating in climate damaging projects. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/siemens-2/counterproposals-2020/
45 NGOs from around the world stand by our friends in Russia. Stop the criminalisation of human rights and environment defenders!
Ecodefense is one of the oldest environmental groups in Russia, founded in 1989 in Kaliningrad. It works in various regions of Russia including Moscow, Kaliningrad and Siberia (Kuzbass) and has already successfully stopped nuclear power plants and coal mines.
In 2014 the Russian government officially labeled Ecodefense as a “foreign agent”, because the organisation convinced a number of investors from Europe not to invest in a nuclear plant near Kaliningrad, which stopped the plant’s construction in mid-2013.
The Russian Ministry of Justice initiated 28 legal (administrative) cases against Ecodefense for non-compliance with the law, leading to fines totaling Euro 30,000, which the organization did not pay until now. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/international-solidarity/declaration-in-solidarity-with-russian-environmental-ngo-ecodefense/
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