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In our educational work, we focus on corporate accountability, fair trade, and climate protection. Germanwatch actively fosters initiative, sustainable thought and action.

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Head of Division – Education for Sustainable Development, Promoter for Climate & Development in North Rhine-Westphalia

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Cover ECL Newsletter 6

Report | 03.06.2019

Empowerment for Climate Leadership - Newsletter (06)

Dear all, We hope that you are all well and keep on applying your ECL-knowledge in your daily lives! It has been half a year since you last met in Germany/ Tanzania for your evaluation seminar. It is more than two years of learning and working together under ECL. It is therefore time that we look back for a long-term evaluation. – Would be very helpful if you can fill out the short online questionnaire until June 10th. Thanks!

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Report | 28.06.2018

Report of the Empowerment for Climate Leadership Program in Tanzania, June 2018

“If you are a wise person, you are a learner and an educator!” With this idea, the 3 weeks of exchange within the “Empowerment for Climate Leadership program” (ECL) started in Tanzania, June 2018. 24 young climate activists from India, Tanzania and Germany met there to work and exchange on different ways of implementing the SDGs and Agenda 2030 on local, regional and national level. Here, you find a short recap of some events in the very inspiring first half of the exchange organized by CAN Tanzania...

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Report | 26.03.2018

Empowerment for Climate Leadership

The project „Empowerment for Climate Leadership“ (ECL) is an extra-occupational 18-months-lasting platform of exchange and training, organized by Climate Action Network (CAN) Tanzania and Germanwatch. ECL supports 20 enthusiastic, climate-active young people, aged 20 to 30 years, who are professionally or voluntarily committed in civil society. Now, the second stage of the ECL-project is initiated

Report | 17.12.2012

International Master Study Programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.)

Students who graduated or will graduate in summer 2013 as (at least) a Bachelor may apply at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany, to be one of the 25 participants admitted for the two‐year study programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.). Classes will begin in September 2013. The mission of GCM is to educate specialists who are able to cope with challenges of natural resource management under global change in an adaptive, proactive and precautionary manner.

Handprint Concept

Education for Sustainable Development | 8. February 2024

The Handprint Concept: Changing Structures towards Sustainability

We are excited to present the English translation of the Handprint concept ‘Changing structures towards sustainability’. The Handprint is the base of our educational activities at Germanwatch and focuses on the transformative power of political engagement. It helps us gradually transform our society so that everyone can act with sustainability.

SDG-Method Collection for intercultural ESD work

Education for Sustainable Development Worksheets | 4. December 2018

SDG-Method Collection for intercultural ESD work

From April 2017 to November 2018, the “Empowerment for Climate Leadership” project took place. Climate Action Network Tanzania (CAN Tanzania) and Germanwatch invited climate-active Indian, Tanzanian and German youths for exchanges and work on online modules – contextual focus was the empowerment of participants to contribute to their NGOs’ work for progress in the area of SDG implementation. A selection of the intercultural learning methods from the exchange seminars with the aim of a better access to the SDGs and their conveyance is presented here.

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Education for Sustainable Development Factsheet | 06.12.2017

Collection of SDG Factsheets

With the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all countries in the world have come up with a comprehensive and ambitious agenda for environmental, social and economic sustainable development in an unprecedented UN-led joint negotiation pro

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Education for Sustainable Development Briefing Note | 1. December 2015

Climate Action: decrease your footprint – increase your Hand Print

The international community has agreed several times that climate change must be limited to below 2°C. Many of the most vulnerable countries demand that this upper limit be tightened to 1.5°C to avoid further negative impacts on their populations. These global temperature limits will likely be included in the Paris Agreement as well. But temperature goals are very abstract. Paris will deliver an agreement – but emission reductions have to be realized on national, subnational, local and private levels...

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