#Environment

Discover how the Allianz Foundation is championing environmental sustainability and conservation efforts. Through innovative initiatives and partnerships, the foundation is committed to protecting our planet for future generations.

Environment Planet Europe

HouseEurope! Transformation instead of demolition

With its recent exhibition ‘FIX IT!’, the European Citizens' Initiative ‘HouseEurope!’ promotes the ongoing discourse on reconstruction and advocates for the duty to reuse. The exhibition is touring Germany, showcasing best practices in conversion houses and highlighting the importance of avoiding demolition and promoting conversion to protect the climate. At the same time, signatures are being collected for the European Citizens' Initiative.

Regenerative Building Alliance: Transforming the way we build

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Regenerative Building Alliance: Transforming the way we build

The way that we live has become a question of prosperity and justice. It poses a major challenge to our social cohesion and democracy. That is why the Regenerative Building Alliance is supporting the sustainable development of the construction and housing industry. Read an interview with Luisa Seiler, who leads the project, here.

A swimming pool on a roof in Sao Paulo is showing people swimming and resting at the pool on the top of the city

Environment Planet

ARCH+: Renegotiating the Future of Our Urban Space

The construction industry is one of the key contributors to the climate crisis. Although more and more is being built, many people can no longer afford housing or cultural spaces. Against this backdrop, our new funding project by ARCH+ shows what potential can be found in the transformation of existing buildings and the renegotiation of spaces.

Smoking industrial chimneys in Poland pollute the air

Environment Europe Planet

Empowering EU Climate Action: Insights from Forum Energii & ECCO

An insight into the analysis of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), carried out by ECCO in Italy and Forum Energii in Poland. Discover how these think tanks evaluate the implementation of EU climate goals and identify challenges in their country – an important glimpse into how civil society actors shape current EU climate policy.

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Environment Arts Planet

Future workshops of the Klima-Allianz Deutschland: Climate Protection Needs Many Voices

When considering culture and climate, the focus is usually on two different perspectives. What has been lacking in Germany so far is an interdisciplinary exchange that focuses on the transformative potential of culture in all its diversity. The Klima-Allianz Deutschland (Climate Alliance Germany) has brought together a wide range of stakeholders in four future workshops to explore this question.

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JIVE climate: the premiere of live journalism in Germany

On Tuesday, November 21st 2023, the premiere of a journalism live show represented an absolute first in Germany. An audience of 300 flocked to the large auditorium at Babylon in downtown Berlin Mitte for “JIVE KIima” (or “JIVE climate”). And they experienced an evening that - symbolically - broke through some boundaries - and many of them!

People are sitting around a cheese. One person sits in the middle and cuts the cheese. There is one dimmed light shining.

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INLAND: our Hub in Spain

INLAND is a collaborative platform started in 2009. It provides a platform for diverse actors engaged in agricultural, social, and cultural production and questions the center-periphery dynamics so prevalent in the arts system. It also aims to strengthen the rural as a space for change.

Aleksandra Łoboda is sitting on a street, her mouth taped with gaffa and around her and two colleagues there is barbed wire. She is holding a sign that is saying: The border of Decency

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Aleksandra Łoboda reflects on: Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study 2023

Before releasing our Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study: 'The Movers of Tomorrow?' on October 31, we asked Aleksandra Łoboda to reflect on our findings. Read her blog about the findings in the Polish context here.

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Magid Magid reflects on: Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study 2023

Before releasing our Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study: 'The Movers of Tomorrow?' on October 31, we asked our Fellow Magid Magid to reflect on our findings. Read his blog here.

Watering Systems on fields full of crops

Environment Europe Planet

Transforming the EU food system: A systemic challenge

Giving fair access for all to healthy diets, decent jobs along the entire food chain, and keeping food production within planetary boundaries – these are the goals for a sustainable transformation of the EU food systems. Allianz Foundation supports IDDRI’s work to shift EU policies towards a food system transition.

A demonstration - a child is sitting on the shoulders of a grown-uo person. It holds a ballon in its hands that looks like the earth but in blue.

Environment People

Responsibility and self-interest: Social actors in climate transformation

Most people agree that achieving a climate-neutral future should be done in a way that is fair to everyone. However, there is no clear agreement on the best way to accomplish this. To find answers, the Berlin Governance Platform conducted a survey of 25 socio-political actors.

There is a bunch of people who are photoshopped together on a yellow background. In the foreground is a banner with the name of the roadshow: "Wir können auch anders"

Planet Environment

“Wir können auch anders” (We can do things differently) – The Roadshow

Inspired by Maja Göpel’s bestseller “Wir können auch anders” (We can do things differently) a film crew portrayed local climate champions in a documentary series. Then the team went on a live tour in five German cities. We spoke about this with the director Lars Jessen & Nicola Bramkamp (SAVE THE WORLD).

Planet Environment

Heat pumps as key technology for climate-neutral buildings

The year 2045 is the deadline – Germany has to be climate neutral by then at the latest. This also applies for the building sector. Heat pumps are a key tool to achieve this, together with energy-efficient renovations – this is a main finding from a project of the Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Environmental Action Germany).