Insights

At the end of January, our colleague Patricia Kastner visited a hydropower plant in Brazil. This plant saves around 20,000 tons of CO₂ each year and provides 40,000 people with emission-free power.

Electricity often makes up one of the largest shares in corporate emissions. Most of these CO₂ emissions can be avoided by transitioning to renewable energy sources.

Our carbon offset project in Uganda saves carbon emissions through access to clean drinking water. As part of the "Improved Kitchen Regimes" programme, existing boreholes are being rehabilitated and converted into functioning drinking water wells.

Clean drinking water is not a matter of course in Madagascar: only five percent of the population in rural areas have access to clean water.

On October 8th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report highlighting the consequences of global warming by 1.5°C compared with pre-industrial levels. 91 authors evaluated 6,000 individual studies.

This summer has been one of the hottest on record, and not just in Europe. Global warming can be felt everywhere. But that is not the only reason why now is the right time to be investing in climate protection.