Climate

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein

Heiligendammer Straße 15
24106 Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany

Telephone
+49 431 9066130
E-Mail
info[at]boell-sh.de
Description of the Organization

The Heinrich Böll's institute Schleswig - Holstein offers services for the political education, mainly in the most northern federal state. We consider us as an independent part of the worldwide green movement. Our events and other educational projects are aimed to further clarify "green" discussions and proposals and to spread them through society. We want to stimulate democratic processes and enable people to become active independently and to take part in forming society and politics.

Here, we relate to subjects, discussions and questions which are of particular importance for the "green project" and its programmatic advancement. We love the dispute and the common research of new knowledge and answers. Our events are places of the political discussion, considered as the serious and heated dispute about important present and future subjects. The authentic representation of different positions, the dialogue between people from different social spectra and the "learning of each other" are characteristics for our events and projects.

Germanwatch

Germanwatch

Dr. Werner-Schuster-Haus
Kaiserstraße 201
53113 Bonn
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany

Telephone
+49 228 60492-0
E-Mail
info[at]germanwatch.org
Description of the Organization

We are an independent, non-profit and non-governmental North-South Initiative. Since 1991, we have been active on the German, European and international level concerning issues such as trade, environment and North-South relations.

Without structural changes in the industrialized countries of the North, an ecological and socially just development worldwide cannot be achieved. We dedicate our commitment to those people in the South who
are particularly affected by the negative impacts of globalization as well as the consequences of our way of life and the structure of our economy.

The main topics of our work are:

  • Climate protection, climate justice and acceptance of responsibility
  • Food security through fair rules in world trade
  • Binding social and ecological rules for multinational corporations
  • Sustainable investment

We work in close coordination with organizations and people from developing countries, creating platforms for them and giving them support. In order to reach our goals we network with other organizations
in Germany, Europe, the US and in the South. We also try to develop and implement intelligent solutions in targeted strategic alliances with constructive partners in companies and trade unions. Most of the funding
for Germanwatch comes from donations, membership fees and project grants.

Themes of the organization

State Chancellery of Lower-Saxony

State Chancellery of Lower-Saxony
Department 207 International Cooperation, Development Cooperation

Planckstraße 2
30169 Hannover
Niedersachsen
Germany

Telephone
+49 511 1206787
E-Mail
nicole.ewert[at]stk.niedersachsen.de
Description of the Organization

Lower Saxony is committed to a range of activities in Sub-Saharan Africa and thus assumes responsibility for sustainable global development. The aim is to learn as much as possible from and with one another in the context of a global partnership and responsibility with
cosmopolitanism and cross-cultural competence.

Lower Saxony focuses on three priority areas of development cooperation:

  1. Partnership with the Eastern Cape (South Africa) since 1995
  2. Project cooperation with Tanzania since 2010
  3. Development educational and information work

As part of the development policy information and educational work within Lower Saxony, the State Chancellery promotes the Association Development Policy Lower Saxony (Verband Entwicklungspolitik Niedersachsen e.V. - VEN). The VEN is the network of development
NGOs, initiatives and so-called One-World-Shops (Weltläden). The main focus of the VEN is the development educational and information work. The funds are directed to the implementation of „IBQ - projects“ (information, education and skills) of NGOs in Lower Saxony in the field of development cooperation.

Since 2014 Lower Saxony has been co-financing the nationwide Promoter-Program (Promotorenprogramm). The aim is to raise awareness on development issues in Lower Saxony. The continuation of the program up to 2018 has been decided upon in 2015 and the financial means are guaranteed.

As part of a special program for humanitarian aid, Lower Saxony has decided to take in 70 traumatized women and children from northern Iraq in 2015. They are victims of extreme violence by fighters of the terrorist organization Islamic State, whom Lower Saxony is going to ensure a safe stay over the next two years. The regional government has decided to allocate 1.1 million euros in 2015 and 6.8 million euros for the following years for the reception, accommodation and health care of these women and children.

2016 is planned to focus on the implementation and consolidation of the new Development Policy Guidelines and their linking with the Strategy for Sustainability of Lower Saxony, which is currently under revision. The intensified cooperation with development policy actors within the civil society - a positive effect of the process of drafting the guidelines - will be continued by, for example, giving these organizations an active part in developing the implementation strategy.

Furthermore, Lower Saxony participates in the newly established Bund-Länder-Program. With the involvement of GIZ’s office in Lower Saxony (Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit) project opportunities are currently being examined and planned to be approved
by the end of January 2016.

Partner countries

Germanwatch - Office Berlin

Germanwatch - Office Berlin

Stresemannstraße 72
10963 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 2888356-0
E-Mail
info[at]germanwatch.org
Description of the Organization

We are an independent, non-profit and non-governmental North-South Initiative. Since 1991, we have been active on the German, European and international level concerning issues such as trade, environment and North-South relations.

Without structural changes in the industrialized countries of the North, an ecological and socially just development worldwide cannot be achieved. We dedicate our commitment to those people in the South who
are particularly affected by the negative impacts of globalization as well as the consequences of our way of life and the structure of our economy.

The main topics of our work are:

  • Climate protection, climate justice and acceptance of responsibility
  • Food security through fair rules in world trade
  • Binding social and ecological rules for multinational corporations
  • Sustainable investment

We work in close coordination with organizations and people from developing countries, creating platforms for them and giving them support. In order to reach our goals we network with other organizations in Germany, Europe, the US and in the South. We also try to develop and implement intelligent solutions in targeted strategic alliances with constructive partners in companies and trade unions. Most of the funding
for Germanwatch comes from donations, membership fees and project grants.

Climate Alliance

Climate Alliance

Galvanistraße 28
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Hessen
Germany

Telephone
+49 69 717139-0
E-Mail
europe[at]klimabuendnis.org
Description of the Organization

The Climate Alliance of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples (Alianza del Clima) is an association of European cities and municipalities that have formed an alliance with indigenous rainforest peoples. The commitment of more than 1500 cities and municipalities is laid down in the Manifesto of European Cities on an Alliance with the Amazonian Indian Peoples of 1990 and the Climate Alliance Declaration of
2000.