co2online

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The non-profit consulting company co2online gGmbH was founded in 2003 by Johannes Hengstenberg in Berlin. The company is committed to reducing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide . With the help of various campaigns , private households are to be motivated to reduce their energy consumption.

organization

The company's headquarters are in Berlin-Schöneberg . The advisory board consists of Martin Cames (Öko-Institut, Berlin), Uwe Leprich (Saarbrücken Institute for Future Energy Systems) and Dieter Wolff (Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel University of Applied Sciences).

Actions and campaigns

The company carries out various campaigns and activities on the subject of energy saving in Germany and in some cases across Europe . The focus is on online advisory services, showing private households how much they can save in order to reduce energy costs and at the same time protect the climate. The range of topics ranges from the thermal modernization of buildings to saving electricity in everyday life. With the help of interactive energy saving advice and the energy saving account, consumers can find out to what extent their energy consumption pollutes the environment and which individual steps they can take to save energy. According to its own information, the non-profit company has carried out almost 7.9 million online consultations in the past (as of June 11, 2015). Evaluations and evaluations have shown positive effects of using the guide on CO 2 emissions as well as on sales and employment in trade and industry. In addition, co2online, together with the German Tenants' Association , publishes the nationwide heating mirror annually. In 2014, co2online published the nationwide current mirror for Germany for the first time together with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and other consumer organizations, research institutions, energy agencies and business associations. For the study, over 110,000 electricity consumption data from all over Germany were evaluated in order to determine nationwide comparative values ​​for private households.

Awards

Co2online won the European Commission's Sustainable Energy Europe Award in 2007 in the “Attention” category for the “Climate Seeks Protection” campaign and in 2015 in the “Energy Efficiency” category for the ecoGator consumer app. The organization received the CleanTech Media Award in the "Sustainability" category in 2008. In 2009, the International Energy Agency (IEA) presented the co2online project Heizspiegel in an international study with 30 examples from all over the world as an innovative activity from Germany. Since 2009, the co2online school competition “Energy Saving Master” has been the official project of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development , an initiative of UNESCO .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How often are the guides used? co2online.de, accessed on June 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ What are the effects of the advisors? co2online.de, accessed on June 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Stromspiegel published SPIEGEL online, accessed on January 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Press release: Power consumption too high? First current mirror for Germany provides current comparative values ​​and motivates to save electricity ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. co2online.de, accessed on January 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.co2online.de
  5. ↑ Methodology of the Stromspiegel ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The electricity saving initiative, accessed on January 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-stromsparinitiative.de
  6. ↑ Press release: Award for exemplary climate protection - EU Commission presents co2online Sustainable Energy Europe Award presseportal.de, accessed on January 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ Award ecoGator-App European Sustainable Energy Award ecogator.de, accessed on January 12, 2016.
  8. ↑ GreenTec Awards: All award winners since 2008 ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. greentec-awards.com, accessed on January 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greentec-awards.com
  9. ↑ PDF: Innovations in Multi-Level Governance for energy efficiency iea.org, accessed on January 26, 2016.
  10. ↑ Competition: Energy Saving Masters 2009 - The Best Schools dekade.org, accessed on October 11, 2012.