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Skyscrapers and streets in front of wooded mountains, with yellow text above: Public Debt and Resilient Futures in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ulrich Volz, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Alex Dryden

Published: October 2025

Latin America and the Caribbean stand at a crossroads of escalating debt, intensifying climate shocks, and stalled progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. A new policy brief analyses the region's debt dynamics.

Dokument mit Titel „The Cost of Clean Cars: Mapping Mining Harms in Europe’s EV Supply Chains“

Published: Juli 2025

The global expansion of electromobility is intensifying competition for critical raw materials. A new analysis connects European supply chains to specific mining sites for the first time, identifying key environmental and social risks.

Cover: Aerial view of a densely built coastal town in Africa, next to the sea and forested inland. Text is overlaid on the image.

Alexander Dryden, Ulrich Volz

Published: October 2025

Across Africa, climate shocks and debt distress fuel each other in a vicious cycle. With external debt more than tripling since 2008, rising costs and plunging currencies are squeezing public finances - leaving little room for vital climate resilience investments.

Published: September 2023

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.

Cover Factsheet GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF CONFLICT AND CRISIS

Aida Fatić

Published: June 2025

Gender-based violence is a devastating consequence of crises and conflicts, disproportionately affecting women and girls. This factsheet highlights the international dimension and the impact of declining funding for aid projects.

Titelseite einer Publikation mit dem Titel „Tapping into the Momentum: The EU-India Trade and Technology Council“, Mai 2025, Logos von Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und CSDR.

Rajat Kathuria, Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo

Published: May 2025

The EU and India are seeking strategic partnerships to shape a more multipolar order. The TTC offers a platform to align on key issues related to trade, digital policy, and green tech - but translating intent into impact remains a work in progress.

Illustration of a world map on a lily pad with Amazon animals, plants, buildings, and a boat. Text is overlaid on the image

Published: June 2025

Since its colonization, the Amazon region has served as a projection surface for foreign ideas and desires. With the Brazilian Amazon Atlas, we want to deconstruct common stereotypes about the region - and show it from the perspective of its diverse inhabitants.

Georg McCutcheon, Anton Möller

Published: May 2025

As Europe rethinks its security strategy in light of global shifts, a new initiative aims to ramp up defense efforts. This paper warns the plan lacks real coordination incentives and calls for deeper reforms that tie funding to shared priorities like democratic resilience and climate security.

A pink cover with hand-painted text in red, purple, and blue tones spelling "TRANSFEMINISTICKA" in the background. Overlaid are the names "Aleksa Milanović, Marija Jovanović & Jovan Džoli Ulićević" in black text, and the bold black title "The Transfeminist Playbook" at the bottom.

Jovan Džoli Ulicevic, Aleksa Milanović , Marija Jovanović

Published: May 2025

The Playbook is a practical toolkit for trans, gender diverse people, and allies providing real-life strategies, but also a call for action and solidarity.

Our Atlas

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

Peatland Atlas 2023

Facts and figures about wet climate guardians

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Cover Meat Atlas. A plate with pieces of meat in the form of a map of the world.

Published: September 2021

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.

Published: November 2015

Our Coal Atlas contains the latest facts and figures on the use of coal and its environmental and social consequences. With more than 60 detailed graphics, the atlas illustrates the coal industry’s impact on nature, health, labour, human rights and politics.

Published: January 2014 (Secondary edition)

This publication sheds light on the impacts of meat and dairy production, and aims to catalyse the debate over the need for better, safer and more sustainable food and farming.

Böll.Thema - The Magazine of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

Böll.Thema 2/24: Democracy

Diverse avenues towards one common goal

Worldwide, democracy is under pressure. In this edition of the magazine Böll.Thema we introduce people who inspire us with their commitment to democratic values. Because without dedication and action, there can be no democracy. And without democracy, everything is for naught.

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Published: October 2024

GPT Illustration: A hand places a yellow star into a transparent box with more stars on a blue background. Text: "Europe – A Promise."

Published: March 2024

War in Europe, the escalating climate crisis, Europe's position in the global power structure: The EU faces historic challenges. With this issue of the Boell.Thema magazine, we aim to inform about the history and future of the EU.

Böll.Schriften - Our Series of Writings???

From Forest to Furnace

The Impact of Wood Biomass Energy

The burning of wood for energy is increasing worldwide, putting pressure on forests and ecosystems. This paper analyzes the development in Europe, North America, East Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Cover of the publication "Dual Pressures on Iran"

Dr. David Jalilvand

Published: November 2021

The present study by David Jalilvand examines in view of the pandemic, whether the population and, above all, marginalized groups are affected by the precarious medical care in Iran and whether the sanctions are possibly failing to achieve their goal.

Almuth Ernsting

Published: März 2025

The burning of wood for energy is increasing worldwide, putting pressure on forests and ecosystems. This paper analyzes the development in Europe, North America, East Asia, Africa, and South America.

Published: December 2018

Liberal democracies are under pressure, both worldwide and in Europe. For example, in Hungary and Poland, farright nationalist to nationalistic parties are in government and propagate an ‘illiberal’ democracy. The dismantling of democracy in an EU member state is not a national problem – it is a European one. The study makes clear the dilemma in which the EU finds itself and what possibilities for action are available to it.

Books

Grünes Titelbild mit Bild eines grafischen Baums mit vier Ästen, neben den Personen stehenn

Here, at last

Pathways of Green Politics in the Western Balkans

In his book, author Vedran Horvat takes a personal journey through the last two decades of politics in the Western Balkans and sheds light on the potential of green politics under extremely difficult conditions.

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Published: June 2021

Specifically developed and designed for a young international audience, the digital book "Unpacked! Plastic, Waste, & Me" answers 70 questions about plastic in colorful infographics and six true stories. Book designer and author Gesine Grotrian and a team of experts from the Heinrich Böll Foundation together with an advisory board of young people from all over the world have created an exciting non-fiction book for young people aged 12 and over.

COVER PAGE Sharing life. The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity

Andreas Weber, Aküm Longchari, Ash Narain Roy, Bhagat Oinam, Daniel Langthasa, Jayanta Kumar Sarma, Dr Kaustubh Deka, Linda Chhakchhuak, Meghna Singh, Shrishtee Bajpai, Sonal Jain, Uttam Bathari

Published: December 2020

Evolving around the main essay “Sharing life. The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity”, all contributions to this assemblage reflect a common understanding that ecology and biodiversity needs to be reclaimed – and constantly generated – as a process of lived and living realities in a system of reciprocal relationships.