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Recent Articles

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”

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

Thousands of mirrors stand in rows in a desert landscape, with low mountains in the background under a lightly clouded sky.

A Shared Green Future: Why the EU and China Need Each Other in the Energy Transition

Analysis

Diversification strategies in green technology must be technology-specific rather than uniformly applied. Balancing openness with resilience will allow the EU to mitigate supply risks while leveraging China’s scale and innovation capacity.

Belinda Schäpe

Specials

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Events

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November

Stories of Freedom: Voices for Democracy and Human Rights

Film presentation and talk Friday, 14. November 2025 in Berlin

Films and discussion as part of the Berlin Freedom Week
17

November

The next strategic project in the Balkans?

Presentation of a study Monday, 17. November 2025 in Brussels

Study launch and discussion on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
18

November

Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians

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

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

Regions

"The Humanitarian Situation in Sudan Is Catastrophic"

Speech

In his speech, Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), points out three key factors that are contributing to the detrimental humanitarian situation in Sudan.

Jan Egeland

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

All Regions

Sustainable transport and mobility are key to tackle the climate crisis and to achieve the targets of the European Green Deal. However, transport today accounts for nearly 30 percent of the CO₂ emissions within the European Union. How can the EU reduce its transport and mobility emissions while connecting citizens, creating green jobs and leading the innovation in the sector?

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union

Insect Atlas 2020

Atlas

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.

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.

Stay tuned!

#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: “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

A Shared Green Future: Why the EU and China Need Each Other in the Energy Transition

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

Stories of Freedom: Voices for Democracy and Human Rights

The next strategic project in the Balkans?

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

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

"The Humanitarian Situation in Sudan Is Catastrophic"

Agroecology in Amazonia Strengthens Sustainable Food Systems

Publications