Natural climate protection is an essential element in achieving climate protection targets and promoting the conservation of biodiversity. The German government has therefore launched the Action Program for Natural Climate Protection (ANK).

To promote this development, the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld of Trier University of Applied Sciences, the GLOBUS Foundation and the Peter und Luise Hager Foundation have joined forces at the beginning of 2024 and set up a project consisting of a conference, an ideas competition and coaching.

The ideas competition kicked off in July 2024 with a conference at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld. In addition to representatives from science and politics, trade and industry, as well as municipal and agricultural businesses and schools, presented their best practice examples, including GLOBUS Holding and Hager Group. Johannes Hauck, Corporate Affairs Director at Hager Group, reported on the company‘s climate protection measures.

Schools, local authorities and companies then had until the end of October to submit their measures for natural climate protection.

The jury, consisting of representatives from the two foundations, IfaS and NABU, reviewed all applications and awarded the winners with prize money and coachings to jointly develop and promote the ideas.

We believe in the importance of the project and are optimistic about entering the second round in 2025 with minor adjustments based on the experience we have gained.