3 min. Knowledge transfer for active climate protectors throughout Germany

The Climate Decisions project enables citizens to campaign for effective climate protection in their communities. This makes a decisive contribution to ensuring that regions become climate neutral more quickly and the climate crisis can be averted. To quickly and profoundly reduce greenhouse gases - as a decisive factor in limiting global warming - it requires less individual measures than systemic change, supported by a legal framework. To begin this transformation, action must be taken at all levels. Many of the regulations of an effective climate protection law must ultimately be implemented locally: from the use of public space to transport concepts and heat supply - municipalities and districts have many tasks and competencies that must be designed in a climate-friendly manner. Climate decisions are based on the climate emergencies declared in many municipalities in recent years. Citizens can use direct democracy to participate in shaping local politics. The teams conduct public relations and persuasion work and collect signatures in a variety of ways. Once the decision has been reached, the teams support the creation and implementation of climate neutrality plans. GermanZero has created a large knowledge base about where local CO2 emissions arise, how they can be reduced in concrete terms and what the costs and economic opportunities are. Local climate neutrality enables people to live and work more sustainably. This enables municipalities to manage their economies more proactively and create sustainable infrastructure. This makes municipalities pioneers in climate protection.