Global 2000
| Environmental protection organization GLOBAL 2000 | |
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Association ( ZVR : 593514598) |
| founding | September 18, 1982 |
| Seat | Vienna ( ⊙ ) |
| Managing directors | René Fischer, Agnes Zaner |
| Website | www.global2000.at |
GLOBAL 2000 is an Austrian environmental protection organization . It was founded in Vienna in 1982 and now consists of the associations GLOBAL 2000 Environmental Protection Organization and GLOBAL 2000 Environmental Research Institute (UFI) (founded in 1991). The organization claims to work independently and critically for a green , sustainable and healthy environment . It has been a member of the global environmental protection network Friends of the Earth since 1998 and is thus a sister organization of BUND (Germany) and Pro Natura (Switzerland). According to its own homepage, “a young team” works full-time for the purposes of the association; it is supported "by activists and volunteers all over Austria".
Tasks, goals
The organization's campaign focus is currently in the areas of nuclear energy , energy , genetic engineering , global warming , pesticides , tropical rainforests , traffic and the development of sustainable, future-oriented concepts in these areas.
Another focus is the Chernobyl Children project , which organizes aid transports and supports health and social facilities in Ukraine , but also provides recreational stays for the children.
Surname
The name of the organization goes back to the well-known study Global 2000 from 1981, in which global environmental and development problems were presented by the US government . The study was sold over 500,000 times in Germany alone, despite the enormous size of over 1500 pages. It was of great importance in the development of the modern environmental protection movement.
Photo Quest
Together with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), " FotoQuest ", a mobile app for environmental and climate protection, tries to involve the general public in the documentation of the nature of the ground vegetation in order to obtain further knowledge about the environment based on the data collected - and gain climate protection.
Environmental internship
GLOBAL 2000 enables young people to do an internship that gives them a glimpse into the nature of NGOs . This internship was also recognized by the Austrian UNESCO Commission in 2011 .
Awards
In the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015, GLOBAL 2000 awarded a negative prize every month from September to November to Austrian climate change deniers and inhibitors . First prize went to the FPÖ environment spokeswoman Susanne Winter that the climate change called a "single-media lies". Then Christoph Leitl received this award with his statement:
"Demanding something that is simply not feasible and driving the industry out of Europe to other countries where the requirements are much lower - that doesn't do it."
Donation seal of approval
GLOBAL 2000 has had the Austrian seal of approval for donations since September 30, 2002, both as an environmental protection organization and as an environmental research institute .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ global2000.at/global-2000-umweltforschungsinstitut
- ↑ a b global2000.at/verein
- ↑ GLOBAL 2000: How the Chernobyl Children Project began. (No longer available online.) November 24, 2010, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved December 4, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ FotoQuest - new app for environmental and climate protection , Global 2000 website.
- ↑ GLOBAL 2000 environmental culture internship awarded by the Austrian UNESCO Commission on November 29, 2011, accessed on October 1, 2015.
- ^ First "Black Globe Award" to FPÖ environmental spokeswoman Winter in the Tyrolean daily newspaper on September 1, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2020.
