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People are sitting at a long table at a climate conference, with plants in the foreground and the words “PRE-COP30 MEETING” in the background.

COP30 in the Rhythm of Brazil: Working Together for Change

The international context is marked by tensions: no easy task for the Brazilian presidency at COP30. Our authors analyze how Brazil could use its diplomatic ability to synchronize different interests.

Rodrigo Astorga Hering, Natalia Zumelzu

Bright salt flats with straight lines, turquoise-green basins for lithium mining on the right in a dry mountain landscape.

COP30: “The Discussion Around Minerals Can Be Seen as a Stick in the Spokes of the Bike”

Interview

At COP28, António Guterres announced principles to tackle the implications of minerals extraction. Apart from this, minerals have been fairly invisible on any COP agenda. Emily Iona Stewart explains why this year could be different.

Fünf stilisierte Menschen stehen und knien um eine große grüne Kugel mit dunklen Punkten.

Resolution 1325 in El Salvador: Shifts from Human to Militarized Security

Background

El Salvador’s commitment to UN Resolution 1325 faces a crossroads: Past progress is now at risk as President Bukele’s growing militarization threatens women’s rights and equality, reviving echoes of the country’s war-torn past.

Gloria Guzmán Orellana

Specials

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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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November

Resilience and reforms in Ukraine at wartime: The role of local self-government

Conference Tuesday, 18. November 2025 – Wednesday, 19. November 2025 in Berlin

20th Annual Conference of Kyiv Dialogue
Livestream
19

November

Can South Africa be a Green Iron hub?

Webinar Wednesday, 19. November 2025 in Cape Town
21

November

Global Voices Against Forgetting

Film presentation Friday, 21. November 2025 – Saturday, 22. November 2025 in Berlin

Films of Memory and Resistance
21

November

Reproductive Futures

Meeting Friday, 21. November 2025 – Saturday, 22. November 2025 in Berlin

Feminist Visions for Just Care
Livestream

Regions

Eine Hand hält eine runde Fruchtschale mit Blättern und Paranüssen.

Agroecology in Amazonia Strengthens Sustainable Food Systems

Analysis

In the Amazon, scientific agroecological knowledge is combined with the ancestral knowledge of traditional peoples and communities in forest management. This fusion results in several initiatives that stand as resistance to the advance of agribusiness.

Romier da Paixão Sousa, Tatiana Deane de Abreu Sá

Two taekwondo fighters exchange kicks mid-air during a match; one wears blue gear, the other red. Judges and spectators in the background.

Korean Masculinity Must Move From Endless Proof to Shared Care

Analysis

South Korean men, trapped in the rigid ‘K-timeline’ from school to military to marriage, face endless pressure to prove their masculinity, fueling resentment toward women and radicalization. A transformation is needed, with care at its core.

Taehwan Kim

All Regions

The Insect Atlas provides Data and facts about beneficial and harmful insects in agriculture, formulates criticism of the overly hesitant policy and names the urgently needed steps to protect insects.

World map with illustrated animals and plants on peatlands, incl. bird, frog, dragonfly, cow, reeds, and leaves.

Peatland Atlas 2023

Atlas

The Peatland Atlas highlights the consequences of the destruction of these unique habitats and shows the opportunities of wet peatlands and their use for society in order to encourage all actors to take action.

Meat Atlas 2021

Atlas

There is hardly any other food that pollutes our environment and the climate as badly as meat. However, no government in the world currently has a concept of how meat consumption and production can be significantly reduced.

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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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

COP30 in the Rhythm of Brazil: Working Together for Change

COP30: “The Discussion Around Minerals Can Be Seen as a Stick in the Spokes of the Bike”

Resolution 1325 in El Salvador: Shifts from Human to Militarized Security

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

Resilience and reforms in Ukraine at wartime: The role of local self-government

Can South Africa be a Green Iron hub?

Global Voices Against Forgetting

Reproductive Futures

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Agroecology in Amazonia Strengthens Sustainable Food Systems

Korean Masculinity Must Move From Endless Proof to Shared Care

Publications