Overview

• Around 60 participants from BaumEntscheid and over 20 partner organizations lay down at Pariser Platz to dramatize the health risks of rising urban heat
• The coalition includes Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Berlin, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, Fridays for Future Berlin, Stadtnatur Berlin, Greenpeace Berlin and Diakonie Berlin-Brandenburg
• Demonstrators carried banners reading “Berlin muss cooler werden,” “Bäume statt Blechkisten” and “Berlin wetterfest machen” to call for more trees and shade
• Organizers want a BäumePlus law to make heat action plans for the Senate and districts legally binding and secure a citizen referendum by the 2026 Abgeordnetenhaus election
• Activists warn that Berlin ranks among Germany’s most heat-stressed regions and that existing tree-planting efforts are insufficient for adequate climate adaptation