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25th Anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

Dossier

This dossier explores whether the gains of the past 25 years have laid a resilient and transformative foundation for feminist and gender-transformative approaches in peacebuilding, as well as in foreign, security and development policy.

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COP30: UN Climate Change Conference

Dossier

COP-30 in Belém, Brazil: Our dossier on the UN Climate Change Conference in November 2025 provides facts, information, and analyses.

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EU-China Relations: Bound by Clean Tech or Divided by It?

Dossier

Green Tech has emerged as one of the defining factors in the relationship between the European Union (EU) and China, intertwining their economic ambitions and security considerations with their climate commitments.

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25th Foreign Policy Conference

Dossier

In an increasingly fragmented world, it is time to rethink peace and security. What does it take to reclaim these concepts from a progressive, green perspective? These questions will be explored at our Annual Foreign Policy Conference.

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Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Dossier

Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a powerful response to today’s interlinked crises - environmental degradation, climate change, and deepening social inequalities. This dossier explores how agroecology redefines food systems and promotes people’s agency.

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Masculinities in Asia

Dossier

This dossier shows how ideals of masculinity in Asia influence (young) generations and even entire nations, how men themselves suffer from hegemonic masculinity, and how queer interventions and traditional Asian ideas can offer alternatives.

Events

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November

Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians

Exhibition Tuesday, 18. November 2025 – Tuesday, 16. December 2025 in Berlin
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December

Here Comes The Sun

Online book presentation Monday, 01. December 2025

Europe Calling with Bill McKibben and Mara Kleine
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December

Boell Talks: Disinformation and External Interference in Armenian Politics

Online discussion Thursday, 04. December 2025

Regions

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China’s New Climate Targets: Will China Lead the Global Climate Fight?

Analysis

As the US retreats from the global climate agenda and the EU struggles to fill the leadership gap, many are looking to China and ask: What can we expect from China's new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for 2035?

Belinda Schäpe, Lauri Myllyvirta

Overcoming Latin America’s Mounting Debt Crises

Analysis

Climate finance and green investments will achieve little in debt-strapped economies without systemic reform. Latin America and the Caribbean need not more pledges but an overhaul of global financial governance.

Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Ulrich Volz, Alex Dryden

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The 2014 Meat Atlas serves up twenty short essays on new topics related to meat consumption. It sheds light on the “big business” of meat and shows that alternatives to large-scale industrial production are possible.

The Europe Atlas

Atlas

Europe is more than just debt crises, bureaucracy, and national narrow-mindedness. This is demonstrated by the Europe Atlas, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in collaboration with the German Council on Foreign Relations, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Le Monde Diplomatique.

Coal Atlas

Atlas

Germany is world champion! In lignite mining. A quarter of Germany's greenhouse gas emissions come from the 30 largest coal-fired power plants. The result is dramatic damage to the climate, the environment, and human health. The Coal Atlas shows that a gradual phase-out of coal-fired power generation is technically possible and necessary.

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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Portals & Institutes

Go to GreenCampus

GreenCampus is our further education academy with offers in political management, personnel development as well as gender and diversity management.

Go to Heimatkunde

Heimatkunde is the migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Go to the GWI

The Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (GWI) pools gender policy and feminist topics.

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#StandWithUkraine

We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues and, at the same time, by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are beset by harsh repression.

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Recent Articles

We Are Not Going Back to the Sidelines!

Gaza’s Feminist Legal Pioneer

From Brussels to Belém: Can the EU Demand Ambition While Retreating at Home?

Specials

25th Anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

COP30: UN Climate Change Conference

EU-China Relations: Bound by Clean Tech or Divided by It?

25th Foreign Policy Conference

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Masculinities in Asia

Events

Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians

Here Comes The Sun

Boell Talks: Disinformation and External Interference in Armenian Politics

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

China’s New Climate Targets: Will China Lead the Global Climate Fight?

Overcoming Latin America’s Mounting Debt Crises

Publications

Meat Atlas 2014

The Europe Atlas

Coal Atlas

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

Our Newsletters

Recent Articles

We Are Not Going Back to the Sidelines!

Gaza’s Feminist Legal Pioneer

From Brussels to Belém: Can the EU Demand Ambition While Retreating at Home?

Specials

25th Anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

COP30: UN Climate Change Conference

EU-China Relations: Bound by Clean Tech or Divided by It?

25th Foreign Policy Conference

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Masculinities in Asia

Events

Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians

Here Comes The Sun

Boell Talks: Disinformation and External Interference in Armenian Politics

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

China’s New Climate Targets: Will China Lead the Global Climate Fight?

Overcoming Latin America’s Mounting Debt Crises

Publications

Meat Atlas 2014

The Europe Atlas

Coal Atlas

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

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