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COP30: Entrenching a New Era of Climate Colonialism

In international climate policy, false solutions are repeatedly promoted: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions. What role do they play at COP30?

Tamra Gilbertson

Ein Aufsteller des Logos der COP 30 steht vor einem Gebäude.

COP 30: How Argentina Went from Pioneer to Laggard in International Climate Policy

Analyse

With the start of COP30, Argentina finds itself on the sidelines of international climate diplomacy. The country is currently experiencing a severe dismantling of institutions and new dependence on extractivism – yet it was once a pioneer in climate protection.

Camila Mercure

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

Analysis

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

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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December

Here Comes The Sun

Online book presentation Monday, 01. December 2025

Europe Calling with Bill McKibben and Mara Kleine
04

December

Boell Talks: Disinformation and External Interference in Armenian Politics

Online discussion Thursday, 04. December 2025
15

December

Decolonizing Dayton - DON’T DREAM DREAMS

Reading and talk Monday, 15. December 2025 in Berlin

Theatre & Discussion

Regions

Blick einem kaputten Fenster auf das zerstörte Zentrum von Khartum, Sudan.

Civil peace in Sudan – and Germany's important role

Commentary

In the conflict in Sudan, diplomatic efforts are focused too heavily on the two main warring parties, the SAF and RSF, while civilian actors are barely involved. Without their active participation, a peace process has little chance of success.

Ahmed Kodouda, Ulf Terlinden

Rethinking Development, Aid Dependency and the Future of Cambodia’s Civil Society

This think piece is not a roadmap but a provocation—a call to rethink, reimagine, and reorient Cambodian civil society in a moment of deep crisis. There is no golden bullet, but a chance to build something new and enduring.

Sok Leang , Heike Löschmann

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Publications

Meat Atlas 2018

Atlas

Unlike previous editions, the 2018 Meat Atlas not only presents the problems facing the meat industry and their causes, but above all opportunities, strategies, and tools for change.

The European Energy Atlas is a compass for the various energy debates in EU member states. It shows how Europeanization can make the energy transition successful and more cost-effective for the whole of Europe—and Germany.

Agricultural Atlas

Atlas

On 50 pages, there are numerous illustrations with data and facts about EU agriculture. The atlas is the result of European networking and aims to strengthen civil society and movements in many EU countries, thereby promoting ecological and social change in agriculture and food production.

All publications

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

All Atlases

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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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: Entrenching a New Era of Climate Colonialism

COP 30: How Argentina Went from Pioneer to Laggard in International Climate Policy

COP30 in the Rhythm of Brazil: Working Together for Change

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

Decolonizing Dayton - DON’T DREAM DREAMS

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Civil peace in Sudan – and Germany's important role

Rethinking Development, Aid Dependency and the Future of Cambodia’s Civil Society

Publications

Meat Atlas 2018

Energy Atlas

Agricultural Atlas

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

Our Newsletters

Recent Articles

COP30: Entrenching a New Era of Climate Colonialism

COP 30: How Argentina Went from Pioneer to Laggard in International Climate Policy

COP30 in the Rhythm of Brazil: Working Together for Change

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

Decolonizing Dayton - DON’T DREAM DREAMS

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Civil peace in Sudan – and Germany's important role

Rethinking Development, Aid Dependency and the Future of Cambodia’s Civil Society

Publications

Meat Atlas 2018

Energy Atlas

Agricultural Atlas

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

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