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This European Action Plan 2013 has been drawn up in the course of the “Young Ideas for Europe” project, implemented across Europe. English-language edition.

This Report discusses the crucial but understudied impact of oil extraction industries on local communities and the environment in Yemen’s Hadhramawt governorate. By combining conceptual approaches of energy justice and the environmental peacebuilding literature, it p...

Design-based school development (DBSE) is designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of actors in the school system. Design-based school development (DBSE) is designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of actors in the school system. The aim is to make the best possible use of scarce r...

Empowering progressive social forces in South Africa and beyond to create systemic change from above and below through research, policy, and advocacy.

Curbing the threat posed by the greenhouse effect will require binding mitigation measures and drastically higher investments to fund them worldwide. Hence there were great expectations at the UN Climate Summit, COP 26, in Glasgow. The Foundation was also on site to shine a spotlight on some key fea...

Species extinction, climate crisis, democracies in danger: Many challenges of our time can only be solved together – globally and within societies. Therefore, this year’s international media and science festival SILBERSALZ explored different ways of how to make this possible.

Land use and food production are supposed to become climate-neutral in Europe by 2050 – that’s what the European Commission declared in its Green Deal. In our interview, Senior Vice President Global Issues Ottilie Bälz explains why this requires a fundamental shake-up of the agricultural sector and...

California is banning gas cars, carbon free meals are en vogue and the Biden Plan is aiming to build a sustainable infrastructure: The U.S. is back on the climate stage. Samantha Gross, current fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains what this means for a divided country and how cooperating wi...

Here are 5 essential facts you need to know to understand the hidden connections between carbon markets, land rights, and the global race to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Emissions trading is booming and CO₂ certificates appear to be a win for the climate. We reveal the downsides.

Weather extremes such as droughts and heat waves as a result of the climate crisis will also occur more frequently in Germany. The directors of the new Agora Agriculture think tank funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung explain how the climate crisis and our response to it will transform agriculture an...