Klimastreik in Köln

In the organizer's words:

We have a right to the future!

Friday, 14.02.2025 - from 4 pm - Heumarkt - Cologne

"We have a right to the future!" is the motto of the climate strike for the early federal elections. Fridays for Future Cologne is taking part in the nationwide climate strike one week before the federal elections.

Climate protection must be the political priority of the next federal government. That is the goal of the movement, that is what we are demanding and that is why we are taking to the streets.

"We can all see how bad the climate crisis is already escalating. Despite this, the parties are blithely planning more highways and gas imports. It is unacceptable that the climate is barely mentioned in this election campaign! Some of us young people can't even vote yet. But one thing is clear: we have a right to a future - and we will fight for it," explains Marie Hacker, 15 years old, from Fridays for Future Cologne.

"Decisive action is needed now to combat the climate crisis and implement climate protection in a socially just way. This includes a clear plan for the end of dirty gas, a heat guarantee that ensures that climate-friendly heating is affordable for everyone and a historic training offensive for good climate jobs," adds Ulf Brähler, 19, from Fridays for Future Cologne.

In Cologne, pupils, students and everyone who cares about climate protection will take to the streets on Friday, February 14 to demand their #RightToFuture. The climate strike starts at 4 p.m. at Heumarkt and then runs via Neumarkt, Rudolfplatz, Friesenplatz and past the cathedral to the final rally at Heumarkt. There will be a political and musical program.

Flyer climate strike

Demands

• Making the future: Climate neutrality by 2035.
• Create predictability: A clear plan for the orderly gas phase-out by
  2035.
• Ensuring affordability: The right to climate-friendly heat and mobility.
• Sharing the costs: Super-rich tax to finance the transformation.
• Protect people: A fund for protection against the worst
  consequences of the climate crisis.
• Shaping transformation: Train 300,000 people a year in industries of the future.
  in future industries.