News | 02 March 2022

Solidarity with the people of Ukraine

What Russia's war means for the work of Germanwatch in Ukraine and our partners on the ground

Also for us at Germanwatch, 24 February 2022 has been a watershed. Since that day, war is raging just 800 kilometres from Berlin. Europe's peace order has been fundamentally called into question. A country is invading its neighbour. As we write this, the Russian army is marching towards the Ukrainian coal towns in the Donbass, towns which we at Germanwatch have been working intensively with ever since 2017.

News | 21 February 2022

Putting sustainable food and livestock on the agenda of the UN Environment Assembly

Joint statement by more than 150 organisations ahead of UNEA-5.2

From 28 February to 2 March, the United Nations Environment Programme will host the next Environment Assembly. In a joint statement today, more than 150 organisations from all continents, including Germanwatch, call for sustainable food systems to be a core issue of the Assembly, with a particular focus on animal husbandry.

News | 17 February 2022

"How to become a global climate champion"

Podcast with Dan Jørgensen (Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities) and Lutz Weischer (Head of Policy Berlin Germanwatch)
Podcast "Planet A." with Lutz Weischer

Lutz Weischer - Head of Policy Berlin Germanwatch - talks with the Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Dan Jørgensen about climate champions, international policy and the Climate Change Performance Index. Planet A is a podcast on climate change.