Germany
agenda-transfer Agency for Sustainability GmbH
This agency wants to mobilize societal forces, use synergies and encourage cooperation for a socially just as well as ecologically and economically sustainable development. For this, exemplary projects and processes are nationally researched and published through print media and online-services. Furthermore the agency conducts workshop conversations, holds seminars and expert talks and authors helpful documents as e.g. argumentation aids that should facilitate the work of those who are engaged and contribute to qualitatively improving them.
Portal for Sustainable Development and Local Agenda 21 in Brandenburg
In this portal, protagonists of cities, communes and administrative districts of the federal state Brandenburg present their Local Agenda 21 processes and projects, that are devoted to Sustainable Development. You will also find relevant links to websites from Brandenburg and other federal states with a wide variety of information about concepts and implementation of Sustainable Development and Local Agenda 21.
Green League
The Grüne Liga is a network of groups, initiatives and single persons that lobby for nature and environmental protection and the furthergoing ecologization of the society in a diverse manner. Within the network they keep their autonomy and identity. The network’s objective is the regional and professional coordination and support of protagonists and activities. Its theoretical and practical work focuses on the specific problems in the New Laender.
Council for Sustainable Development
The council for Sustainable Development was founded by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in April 2001. Associated to this council are 19 public figures. They are supposed to develop contributions for the implementation of the national strategy for sustainability, appoint fields of action and concrete projects and make sustainability an important public issue.
Local Agenda 21 Berlin
This homepage shows the particularities of the Local Agenda 21 process in Berlin, as it is a city and an administrative district at the same time, by this it has two levels: the districts (lower level) and the city as a whole (higher level). This means that there are also two different kinds of Local Agenda 21. One of the differences is that the work about Local Agenda 21 for the overall city has begun only recently.
Ecological Storage , registered association
Ökospeicher e.V. is a registered non-profit association with headquarter in Lebus OT Wulkow near Frankfurt (Oder). It was founded in 1991 aiming at a sustainable development of the village and the region. Since its foundation it has implemented several projects and organized various events. Its most known project is the seminar building called Domespace – because of its form it´ s also sometimes colloquially called UFO.
IZT - Institute for future Studies and Technology Assessment
The Institute for future Studies and Technology Assessment is an independent and non-profit research institute which focuses on environmental, social and economic sustainability. It advises political, industrial and social decision-makers, promotes the development of innovative projects, processes and services and disseminates its results to a wide public by different communication channels, e.g. websites or print media.
SERI - Sustainable Europe Research Institute
The Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) is a Pan-European think tank aiming to explore sustainable development options for European societies. It was set up in September 1999. The Institute aims to develop the concept of environmental space and show ways to substantially reduce the material through-put of modern industrial societies.
Institute 4 sustainability
The Institute 4 Sustainability (4sustainability) offers research and consult in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability out of the German perspective.
BRICS+G. A Dialogue About Sustainability And Growth In Six Countries
The German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH have joined to initiate a dialogue-process between Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (the BRICS) and Germany. The purpose of the project is to offer a platform for exchange among experts from government, the economy and civil society of the BRICS-Countries and Germany. While a focus is placed on experiences with National Strategies for Sustainable Development, discussions are also expected to refer to examples from the areas of energy, resource management and the social dimension.
Active Citizenship
Aktive Bürgerschaft (Active Citizenship), a registered association, is a private and non-party initiative founded in 1997, that lobbys for the enforcement of honorary office, non –profit organisations, Corporate Citizenship and civic society. It offers information and expertise concerning civic engagement to active citizens, advises and qualifies persons who are engaged in non-profit organisations and supports people working for economy, policy and administration at developing a future-oriented policy for more engagement. It also provides the emerging research for the “third sector” and offers a national platform for a public discussion for the advancement of a modern civic society.
genanet – focal point gender, environment, sustainability
Genanet considers gender justice and indispensible prerequisite for sustainable development. Genanet has been created to raise awareness of gender equity in environment and sustainability policy and to integrate it into research, to implement gender mainstreaming in environmental policymaking and into the activities of environmental organisations. Genanet will prepare position statements on recent environment and sustainability issues, discuss strategies to implement gender mainstreaming and will put structures in place to allow effective lobbying of environment policy decisions from a gender perspektive.
International Cultural Centre ufa Fabrik Berlin
The International Centre for Culture and Ecology ufa Fabrik Berlin, that is a-one-of-a-kind European project combining living and working project, was founded in 1979. All activities of the 30 residents and over 150 co-workers are based on the vision of a meaningful integration of the areas of living and working with culture, creativity and community. New and uncommon ideas have been implemented at the ufa Fabrik over the past 25 years, involving ecology and sustainable development, the testing of concepts for producing culture and social and neighbourhood work.
Environmental Verification Committee (Umweltgutachterausschuss, UGA)
The Environmental Verification Committee (UGA) is an independent administrative body which is under legal control of the federal ministry of the environment. It ensures quality of the EMAS accreditation and supervision system in Germany. The committee consists of 25 members representing all interested parties.
Local Agenda 21 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Guide for communes which want to establish their own Local Agenda 21. Furthermore an overview about Local Agenda 21 projects in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is given, that are arranged by themes respectively by communes.
German Foundation for Environment
The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU is one of Europe's largest foundations and promotes innovative and exemplary environmental projects. Since 1991, almost 5500 projects have received financial backing totalling about € 1 billion. The promotional activities concentrate on environmental technology and research, nature conservation, environmental communication and cultural assets. The Board of Advisors is the executive committee of the foundation, voting for the most important decisions. It consists of 14 members appointed by the Federal Government.
The German Environmental Management Association
The German Environmental Management Association was founded in 1984 by a group of German Entrepreneurs who wanted t o support each other implementing environmental management within their companies. Today B.A.U.M. is the European business community’s largest environmental initiative. B.A.U.M´s aim is to support companies, local authorities and organisations in their efforts to implement ecologically effective and economically viable environmental protection schemes.
Institute for Creative Sustainability
http://www.id22.de
The institute for creative sustainability, in Berlin’s ufafabrik is an interdisciplinary institution, creatively, practically and theoretically working with sustainable development. The ufafabrik offers an ideal setting, with its 25 years of experience in demonstrating sustainable development: creative and cooperative projects, integrating culture, ecology, economy and community development.
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