The challenges for water management are great: climate change, globalisation, the loss of biodiversity and the continued use of surface waters and groundwater require consistent and strategic action to avoid overexploitation of water resources and to ensure the important services of these ecosystems in the long term. In recent months, the management plans and programmes of measures for the third and thus decisive management cycle of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) have been published. However, the level of ambition of the present management plans does not reflect these challenges. Even the draft of the National Water Strategy does not make any concrete statements on the timely implementation of the WFD.

We want to discuss the current management planning with you at this year's Forum: How do we ensure future-oriented water management? Is the transparency approach pursued by some federal states in conformity with the WFD? What claims can be derived from the climate decision of the Federal Constitutional Court? What levers exist to advance the implementation of the WFD?

Further information: https://www.gewaesserschutzforum.de

The programme can be found here: https://www.wrrl-forum.de/programm2022/

For registration: https://www.nabu.de/wir-ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/32226.html 

Planned acceleration law undermines legal protection against major projects

Berlin, 06.09.2022: In a statement submitted today, the environmental network GRÜNE LIGA strongly opposes the draft for another acceleration law. The Ministry of Justice plans to avoid the suspensive effect of lawsuits by allowing courts to disregard legal errors in the decisions complained of.
"The law planned by the Federal Ministry of Justice aims at facilitating the creation of facts even in the case of unlawful approvals. In practice, lawsuits against fossil-fuel power plants, waste incineration plants, airports, roads and even lignite mining would be nullified from the outset, even though the law claims to serve the conversion to sustainable energy supplies. This kind of planning acceleration would undermine the rule of law as a whole," says René Schuster, Federal Chairman of the GREEN LIGA.

Coal company wants to justify expropriation with business secrets Sorbian-Welsh cultural project shows solidarity on site

Representatives of Fridays for Future from Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony demand that no more land be expropriated for opencast lignite mines. They met in the forest leased by the GRÜNEN LIGA at the Nochten open-cast mine, where they planted a young lime tree.

"Opencast coal mines like Nochten have an impact over the entire course of the Spree. Our generation will bear the consequences if the coal phase-out is delayed. As climate activists from Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, we therefore jointly demand that the mining areas be reduced and that no opencast mining consequences be passed on to the general public," says Tom Beeger from Fridays for Future in Görlitz.

Global warming and the associated longer dry periods and more frequent heavy rainfall events are having a noticeable impact on the water balance of lakes and wetlands in Germany and Europe. This leads to additional stress factors for aquatic ecosystems and their biodiversity and increasingly highlights conflicts in water use.

An ecological distopia and an outlook for all Europe ? The Greek Volvi Lake dried up completely in 2019.

Against this background, the current flash study "Lakes and Climate Change" highlights the available research findings on the impacts of climate change - and the associated changes in temperatures, precipitation amounts and distributions - on lakes, small water bodies and wetlands in Germany, also incorporating findings from other European countries.

BfN Schriften 624 - Blitzlichtstudie "Seen und Klimawandel"

Udo Gattenlöhner, Michael Bender und Marlene Bär Lamas

BfN-Schriften

2022

The long version of the study is available to download here (in German): www.grueneliga.de/images/Dokumente/Skript624.pdf

You can find a summary of the BfN Study here (English):

www.grueneliga.de/images/Dokumente/Wasser/EN_KLIMA_SEEN_SUM_22_04_27.pdf 

As part of the Action Network Small Waters (Aktionsnetz Kleingewässer), the Grüne Liga Berlin e.V. will organise a dialogue event at the Packereigraben.

When: 27.08.2022

Meeting point: 11:00 a.m. at Waidmannslust S-Bahn station, 13469 Berlin

Discover more about Aktionsnetz Kleingewässer: https://bln-berlin.de/aktionsnetz-kleingewaesser/ 

Download our flyer as PDF: www.grueneliga.de/images/events/DialogPackereigraben27August22Flyer.pdf