Environmental Policy

Our relationship with nature is severely disrupted. To sustainably protect people and the environment, we need new approaches – such as granting rights to nature. How can this approach be implemented and what opportunities does it offer for people and the environment?

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from December 2 to 14 in Katowice, Poland. The conference is intended to establish the rules according to which the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 will be implemented in order to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C.

Feminist perspectives on sustainability ahead of the Earth Overshoot Day 2022. This is a series of interviews with feminist change-makers committed to fighting for people and the planet.

The conference Stockholm+50 takes place five decades after the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. We not only want to look back at 50 years of global environmental policy, but also look forward and ask: What can we do better so that the necessary transformation still succeeds? 

The plastic atlas offers data and facts about a world full of plastic. Since the first German plastic atlas was published in June 2019, our international offices have published numerous other versions, both translations and regional editions. The atlases are accompanied by informative online dossiers and interesting video clips on the offices' websites. But other exciting formats have also emerged around the plastic atlas. Here is an overview.

The production and consumption of fossil, mineral and metallic raw materials not only contributes to climate change and environmental destruction worldwide, it also violates human rights, threatens our health and destroys livelihoods.