Signature Campaign for the Climate Peace Pact 2025 at the World Summit in Vienna
On June 3, 2025, Vienna will host the international World Summit on Climate and Security—with high-level guests such as Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and delegations from more than 50 countries. During the summit, an extraordinary document will be presented to the public for the first time and made available for official signature: the Climate Peace Pact 2025.
The proposal originates from a civil society initiative led by the Center for Interdisciplinary Mediation and Dialogue (ZIMD) and the pacifist media project friedensnews.at. Its mission is to establish a new global security narrative—one that connects climate protection, disarmament, and global justice as inseparable.
Core message of the pact:
“The greatest threat to our security is not a nation, but our inability to act together for our survival.”
Water for Life Instead of Weapons for Death – #think-big4peace-1
Here is the English translation of my article for the Global Peace and Climate Summit in Vienna 2025, styled in neutral, journalistically high-quality English with accessible language and full structure for international presentation:
Created on 22-23 May 2025 by Andreas Hermann Landl
The Desert Project of Hope and Healing
The British military mined the Qattara Depression during World War II to stop Nazi forces. The result: a region rendered inaccessible for centuries unless billions are invested in clearance. Yet this vast geological basin in northwest Egypt—dropping to 137 metres below sea level—holds untapped potential for peace and sustainability.
Ideas to flood the basin date back to the 1920s. I first came across it through a visionary 1974 book titled Saharien – Water for the Desert. In that fictional account, Japan—unable to export weapons—invests instead in flooding the Qattara Depression. By 2003, it is completed: “the first paradise made by humans for humans… and for animals, plants, for all that lives” (p. 5).
Today, this old utopia meets new reality. The Qattara Peace Basin 2040 is a bold yet realistic vision for transforming one of Earth’s deepest land depressions into an international symbol of climate action, disarmament, and cooperation.
Die Engländer haben das Kattara-Becken (en: Qattara) wegen der Nazis im II. Weltkrieg vermint und ohne Milliardenschwere Räumung für Jahrhunderte kontaminiert. Die riesige Kattara-Senke in Ägypten liegt bis zu 137 m untern dem Spiegel des Meeres. Erste Ideen zur Flutung das Beckens reichen bis in 1920er Jahre. Ich stieß auf diese Idee durch ein utopisches Buch aus dem Jahr 1974: Saharien – Wasser für die Wüste. Die Japaner brauchen Öl und konnten keine Waffen liefern. Daher finanzierten sie die die Flutung der Karrara-Senke. 2003 war es vollbracht: „das erste Paradies von Menschen für Menschen gemacht. … auch für Tiere, Pflanzen, für alles was lebt.“ (S. 5).
Ein Wüstenbecken als Friedensprojekt? Meine neue Vision vom „Qattara Peace Basin“ zeigt, wie aus einer verminten Senke in Ägypten ein internationales Symbol für Klimaschutz, Abrüstung und Kooperation entstehen kann – und warum es höchste Zeit ist, Waffen durch Wasser zu ersetzen.
Tuesday, 11. March 2025 08:00 – Link to the text in German and English
Rearmament is the wrong path
European policy continues to follow the logic of war. On March 4, 2025, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced a new era of rearmament and promised military spending of 800 billion euros. On the same day, the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany announced the outcome of their exploratory talks: in addition to a civilian infrastructure package of a limited 500 billion euros, the old Bundestag is to vote on an amendment to the German Basic Law to exempt unlimited military investment from the debt brake. Great Britain is also making a large sum available for even more armaments, and the French President is campaigning for a European expansion of nuclear deterrence.
See English Translation below Search for: „Time to Act“ –
The message is clear: Act now or face escalating disaster – Handelt jetzt oder seht ständig steigende Katastrophen.
Eine Turbo-Klimawendestrategie ist finanziell sinnvoller, ökologisch notwendiger und sozial gerechter. Das Verfehlen der Klimaziele würde die menschliche Zivilisation vor schwerwiegendste Herausforderungen stellen.
Faktor 5: Wenn Baku floppt sind 5x größere Klimaschäden absehbar:
Bis 2100 werden die Schäden 10–20 % des globalen BIP/Jahr erreichen, was etwa 10–15 Billionen USD/Jahr entspricht. Die Schäden sind kumulativ, das heißt immer größere Schäden Türmen sich Jahr für Jahr an. Sie steigen mit der Zeit immer schneller.
Die Turbo-Klimawende ist ein Schnäppchen im Vergleich zur Strategie des herrschenden Weltklimaregimes (Faktor 1/5)
cartoon depicting the chaotic and circus-like atmosphere of COP29 in Baku after 8 days
United Foolspress – UFP: By our correspondent Fritz Freygeist I. live from die baron Munchhausen Pavillion in Baku
Welcome to Baku, where the conference halls are packed with more hot air than the smokestacks of coal plants worldwide! The COP29 feels like a circus featuring clowns, ringmasters, and an impressive cat show — though the true acrobats are the diplomats, desperately trying to leap through the burning hoop of climate finance and avoiding to speak about armament, military emissions and their climate costs.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower made this statement on April 16, 1953, during a speech known as the „Chance for Peace“ speech. He delivered it shortly after becoming President of the United States, addressing the growing costs of the arms race and the Cold War. In this speech, Eisenhower emphasized the moral and economic costs of military spending and the toll it takes on society, especially on those in need.
Vienna – World Peace Day 2024
As we celebrate World Peace Day, it’s vital to confront an uncomfortable truth: the very institutions that claim to protect us—militaries and arms industries—are steadily destroying the planet we live on. Their impact on our environment and climate is severe, and nowhere is this more dangerous than with nuclear weapons, which daily threaten humanity with annihilation.
Helga Kromp-Kolb held lecture at the UNO-City in the Vienna International Center (VIC) on 26th June 2024 on the burning hot topic of the most serious challange of humanity:
‚The Nexus of Global Climate Change, Sustainability and Peace‘
After a crucial Peace conference in Switzerland on the war in Ukraine in Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland[2] on 15–16 June 2024.[3] that brought into sharp focus the intertwined challenges of organized carbon war systems on climate in our time.
Over 65 conflicts raging worldwide Xanana Gusmao of East Timor reminded us that peace efforts must extend beyond Ukraine to address global instability.
Dear climate strikers and fellow activists from around the world, September 15 we stand here in Vienna an all over the world and all not just as part of a movement, but as peaceful warriors for climate protection. We have achieved much, but we should not stand still. Now is the time to go beyond the strike, to hold those responsible for climate destruction in the realms of business, politics, and the military not only accountable. We should take their misused power in our hands and legs and take the necessary giant strides for climate transition und climate peace by disarmament. We are big, we are organised worldwide. We have plans and we will realise it step by step.
