Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Neubrandenburg lets church bells ring for climate protection

Neubrandenburg (dpa/mv) - In Neubrandenburg, church bells will ring for climate protection in the future.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Neubrandenburg lets church bells ring for climate protection

Neubrandenburg (dpa/mv) - In Neubrandenburg, church bells will ring for climate protection in the future. As a spokesman for the city administration announced on Tuesday, the bells of the Marienkirche - which is known as the concert church - should ring out on Saturdays and Sundays. Shortly before noon, the bells of the town's own church should ring 350 times and symbolically stop "five to twelve".

The number of hits is based on the carbon dioxide limit of 350 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere. This means that out of a million particles in the air, a maximum of 350 particles may be CO2 so that the climate remains bearable for people and the environment. In the region around Neubrandenburg, this value is still more than 400. In the third-largest city in the north-east with almost 65,000 inhabitants, the temperature rose by an average of 1.6 degrees Celsius from 1900 to 2021.

Neubrandenburg wants to implement a climate protection concept adopted in 2019. The aim is to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases - especially carbon dioxide (CO2). The goal is to have only five percent of the value of 1990 in 2050. So far, this value has already been reduced by 66 percent.