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“Strengthening of external financial control in the environmental field” Bonn, Oct. 4th 2019

Stefan [email protected] 1

Germanwatch e.V.

Stefan RostockGermanwatch e.V.Team Leader - Education for Sustainable DevelopmentPromoter for Climate & Development in North [email protected]

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• founded in 1991•• about 700 members• 60 staffers in Bonn

and Berlin

Observing, Analysing, Acting

We actively promote North-South equity and the preservation of livelihoods. We observe, analyse

and act. In doing so, we focus on the politics and economics

of the North with their worldwide consequences.

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Where we act:

• Climate protection & adaptation to climate change,

• Energy transformation• World trade, land use & food security,• Corporate accountability, • Financial sector & sustainability,• Development policy & financing,• Education for sustainable development.

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How we work:

• lobby activities• think tank / research• networks & dialogue• press work • raising public awareness• educational work

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Germanwatch at UNFCCC

Observing. Analyzing. Acting.

5Source: Germanwatch e.V.

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Politics

Economy

Science

Environment

Environment

Civil Society

Technology

Moral Authorities(Churches, Individuals, ...)

Social Movements+ Basicgroups

NRO



Legislative-period

According to case(Constitution, Regulation/ Law Making, Enactment)

mostly short-termed

0,25 - 2 years

according toTechnology

long-range

long-range

According to performance- and contextual

security

ConstituentTax-payers

Complainent

StakeholderConsumer

StakeholderInvestor

User

POWER

LEGISLATION

PROFIT

PROFITCHANCES

RISK

KNOW-HOW

VERITY

ACCURACY

VERACITY

Driving Force

CivilianSelf-

determination

Time Frame

Subpoliticsgating/ channel CodeComponents

SystemicRationality

CriteriaPublicity

POLITICS

JUSTICE

ECONOMY

FINANCIAL MARKET

TECHNOLOGY

SCIENCE

MORALE/ ETHICS

AUTHENTICITY

Incentives of an autonomous

publicity

Promotion

Manipulation

Propaganda

Fines

Incentives

SOCIAL

OBJECTIVES

The importance of Germany's role• The world looks at Germany's "Energiewende" with huge

interest.

• If Germany is on a path to reaching its "Energiewende" goals while not hurting the economy: Impact on other countries' low-carbon efforts can be huge, with positive effects on the global climate talks.

• Problems with rising emissions from coal and gap (28-32%) to reach 40% GHG target in Germany need to be solved

• EU climate and clean energy leadership of crucial importance for the global climate agreement

• Due to new dynamics in other parts of the world EU at risk of losing technological leadership and political climate leadership to China/US.

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Legal System:Peru: Huaraz – a climate court case?OLG Hamm on Nov. 13th in Hamm

RWE asked to pay for costs of protecting home lying in the floodpath of a glacial lake as its historical emissions are linked to glacial retreat in the Andes

9From: www.germanwatch.org andhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/peruvian-farmer-demands-climate-compensation-from-german-company

Saúl Luciano Lliuya, 21.03.2015

Economy Sector demands Climate Policies

52 enterprises are demandingEnergy Transition, CO2 Price Signal and more ambition in Climate Policies

10Source: https://germanwatch.org/de/14633, Nov. 2017



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Promote individual steps – the big 5:

Five simple personal actions as first steps:

1. buy renewable electricity 2. use sustainable mobility, avoid or

compensate flying3. consumption and nutrition: buy

sustainable products, consume critically, eat less meat and milk products

4. living: decrease room temperature, save electricity and hot water

5. sustainable investment: inquire about "green" investment of all financial products

Quelle: Lukas Dorsch, Student der HNEE12



Intermediate result: Hand Print at a glance

• from individual decision to decision of general principle

• from singular activities to a stable framework

• structural changes in own sphere of influence

• political commitment

• it is not about being upset about the behaviour of others, but instead it is about helping others to act in a more sustainable way

• strengthen capacities for one's own scopes and learning how to take action

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The Germanwatch Hand Print

Address different frameworks andpersistent structures

demand sustainable legislation from thepolitical actors and sustainable business-models from the economy

from everyday actions topolitical commitment

make sustainable behavioreasier for other people

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tilt over the 'inclined plane'

Help to shape transformation and bring others in: transform frustration and swoon into scopes and self-efficacy



EmpowerEmpower learners to transformthemselves and the society they

live in Transform unsustainable

structures

ActionUse the political

sphere as learningfield

From knowledgeto real life political

action

ChangeESD as a tool for

life long learning forall learners address

decision makers

TransformativeEducation for Sustainable

Development

Face the new situationafter Agenda 2030 and

Paris Agreementfor global cooperation

and transformative action

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personal - family

kindergarden - school - university

job

municipality

state

nation

internationally

Successful ESD -projects change structures to help other people to behave more sustainable.

https://www.handprint.in

Germanwatch Hand Print

Germanwatch contact:www.germanwatch.org

David RyfischTeam Leader - International Climate Policy+49 (0)228 / 60 [email protected]

Languages: English, Spanisch and German

Stefan RostockTeam Leader - Education for Sustainable DevelopmentPromoter for Climate & Development in North Rhine-Westphalia+49 (0)228 / 60 [email protected]

Languages: English and German

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