Climate Change and Justice: On the road to Copenhagen

Published: 16 November 2009
Copenhagen must lead to a breakthrough. The industrial countries bear double responsibility: not only do they need to take reducing their own CO2 emissions seriously, they are also called upon for the substantial financial and technological transfers needed to put developing and newly industrialized countries onto low-carbon development paths.

1989–2009 Years Of Upheaval: Beginning Of Inclusion Or Exclusion?

Published: 12 November 2009
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bosnia-Herzegovina organized an international conference "1989-2009 Years of Upheaval: Beginning of Inclusion or Exclusion?". It dealt with the transition process from an authoritarian to a democratic state model, with the changes in society and politics.

Green Solutions to the Auto Crisis

Published: 11 November 2009
The current automotive crisis is not merely the result of an economic downturn, but has revealed structural flaws within the industry itself. This strategy paper analyzes the current crisis and outlines a vision of the “mobility products of the future”.

Climate Change Violates Human Rights

Published: 11 November 2009
It is mainly the inhabitants of the global South who suffer from the effects of climate change. This publication uses case examples to illustrate the dangers faced by indigenous peoples in particular, as well as the tools the UN human rights system gives them to support their struggle for just climate policies.

Eni´s Investment in Tar Sands and Palm Oil in the Congo Basin

Published: 9 November 2009
Eni, formerly the Italian state oil company, is undertaking a new multi-billion dollar investment in Congo in developing tar sands, oil palm for food and bio-diesel and gas-fuelled electricity. The study gives background information about the plans.

Actors without Society: The role of civil actors in the postcommunist transformation

Published: 27 November 2009
Publication Series on Democracy 15: Twenty years after the epoch-making change in 1989, which affected the post-Yugoslavian space in a way entirely different from other former “real-socialist” European countries, this study is an effort toward an analytical view on the past two decades of development of civil society in the western Balkans. The study shows: Without civic engagement, there will be no changes.

Climate Change Violates Human Rights

Published: 1 October 2009
Publication Series on Ecology 6: While the nations of the North have been polluting the atmosphere, the effects of climate change are mainly felt among the poorest levels of society in the nations of the South. These peoples are faced with the destruction of their living space, and their already tenuous rights to water, food, housing, and education are further threatened by climate change.

Annual Report 2008

Published: 14 August 2009
We are living in extraordinary times! Human-induced climate change is taking place at an unprecedented scale, and the world is caught up in a financial and economic crisis of historic proportions. We can overcome these crises only by undertaking major, joint international efforts.

Toward a Transatlantic Green New Deal

Published: 20 July 2009
The grave financial and economic crisis that broke into full view in the fall of 2008 has dominated headlines and politics. The imagery of a Green New Deal is important in that it suggests an ambitious approach predicated on the need for strong government action and a decisive break with old policies.

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