Well..yesterday Berlin voted and the referendum was not successful. Why? Because just 30% (!!!) went voting! There had been just about 900K voters out of which 51% were voting for the referendum.
Guess the other 1.6M voters enjoyed a nice Sunday…most likely some debating what could be done about climate change in these days.
Nevertheless – I think this is a step forward. Much needed publicity for the theme and a start to do similar initiatives all over the world. Excellent work from the initiative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well..yesterday Berlin voted and the referendum was not successful. Why? Because just 30% (!!!) went voting! There had been just about 900K voters out of which 51% were voting for the referendum.Guess the other 1.6M voters enjoyed a nice Sunday…most likely some debating what could be done about climate change…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[98,75,96,56,77,76,97,88],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-berlin","tag-change","tag-climate-neutral","tag-environment","tag-impact","tag-planet","tag-referendum","tag-voice-your-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":472,"url":"https:\/\/frankobermeier.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/berlin-climate-neutral-2030\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"Berlin – climate neutral 2030…","author":"Frank Obermeier","date":"March 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Today the Berlin citizens are asked to vote a referendum to become climate neutral in 2030 instead of 2045.The actual Berlin Senat is declining this initiative in total. 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