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Stop the construction of a new coal-fired power plant in La Union, Philippines. Besides the pollution at the surfing capital of the Philippines there is plenty of reason not to build the coal-fired power station: competable prices of renewables, no import of coal, climate protection. Even newly industrializing countries like India and China step away from coal these days: India has canceled new coal capacity and China has established a moratorium on new coal plants in 28 of 31 provinces.

Tell the Austrian president Van der Bellen from the Green Party not to ratify CETA after the Austrian parliament has prematurely approved the trade deal. An overwhelming majority of Austrians is against CETA. Furthermore it is illegal not to wait for the judgment of the EuGH which will tell whether investor state dispute settlements are in accordance with the law of the European Union.

Stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (see also under 'new' at www.elstel.org/ViewRSS.php) / Save the Mar Menor lagoon with its sea horses from destruction by agricultural wastewater in Spain.

On Sunday Switzerland will hold a national referendum on the so called Full Money (gr: Vollgeld) Initiative. The initiative would secure people´s savings-account holdings from the bankruptcy of a commercial bank because the money would in deed be deposited on an account of the central reserve bank. It can furthermore prevent financial bubbles like in the finance crises because commercial banks may no more create money on their own by this initiative; instead they need to lend the money from other banks, the central bank or people´s savings. Money could even be dispensed directly from the reserve bank to people in order to increase the volume of money.

Cities account for more than two-thirds of energy use worldwide. Ask the government of your city to take action against climate change. This may currently be an important way especially for the USA since the Trump administration is slashing on climate protection. New York´s Mayor Bill de Blasio has commited to reduce ghg-emissions this Jannuary. New York's pension funds will divest from the big oil and gas companies, and the city is suing the biggest of these corporations for the climate damage they've caused and the deception of the public.