Foundation 2 °
| Foundation 2 ° | |
|---|---|
| Purpose: | Climate protection |
| Chair: | Michael Otto , Chairman of the Presidium |
| Managing directors: | Sabine Nallinger |
| Consist: | since 2012 |
| Founder: | Deutsche Bahn AG, Otto Group, PUMA SE, Deutsche Telekom AG, ROCKWOOL, Gegenbauer Holding, DAIKIN Airconditioning GmbH, Schwäbisch Hall, Schüco International KG, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Otto-Fuchs KG, Aida Cruises |
| Seat: | Berlin , Hamburg |
| Website: | www.stiftung2grad.org |
The Foundation 2 ° - German entrepreneurs for climate protection , alternative spelling: Foundation 2 ° , is an initiative of board chairmen, managing directors and family entrepreneurs. The 2 ° foundation is committed to long-term corporate commitment to climate protection. Together with science, society and politics, the foundation's supporters work on concrete solutions for ambitious and efficient climate protection.
As an entrepreneurial foundation, the foundation is designed across industries. In this way, the knowledge pool and the climate protection commitment of the companies involved can be brought together in the public dialogue and in cooperation projects.
It is a CEO initiative. The leaders of the supporting companies participate directly in the foundation's activities and identify themselves personally with its goals.
Max Schön was the Foundation's director until autumn 2014 , but he retired for family reasons. Sabine Nallinger (candidate for mayor of Munich 2014, honorary city councilor in Munich) became the foundation's director on September 1, 2014.
The foundation has offices in Hamburg and Berlin .
aims
The aim is to support politicians in their efforts to establish a market-economy framework for climate protection and to activate the problem-solving skills of German entrepreneurs for climate protection. The foundation is named after its most important goal: to limit the average global warming to 2 degrees.
supporter
Supporters are the following companies: Puma SE , ROCKWOOL , Gegenbauer Holding , Schwäbisch Hall , Otto Group , Schüco International KG , DAIKIN Airconditioning GmbH , Deutsche Bahn AG , BSH Hausgeräte GmbH , Deutsche Telekom AG , Otto-Fuchs KG , AIDA Cruises , EnBW .
activities
In 2015, the foundation initiated the decarbonisation initiative “On the way to the 2 ° economy”, with which the sponsoring companies are committed to supporting German climate policy in the upper target corridor through their entrepreneurial activities . As part of the work program of the decarbonization initiative, the companies of the 2 ° Foundation are implementing examples for the implementation of decarbonization of the economy in their respective industries .
At the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) , the foundation supported the German working group for environmentally conscious management and the development and environmental organization Germanwatch, the declaration “Paris is making the global energy transition irreversible” by 35 large and medium-sized companies. With the declaration, the signatories encourage the federal government, among other things, to sharpen the measures to achieve the German 40 percent climate target by 2020, to adopt an ambitious climate protection plan for 2050 and to initiate a comprehensive traffic turnaround.
On April 27, 2020, the foundation published a call signed by 68 German companies to link possible economic aid to support the economy after the Corona crisis with conditions and investments for climate protection and to adhere to the previous climate policy measures and the European Commission's Green Deal . According to Handelsblatt, the appeal is also significant because it was signed by companies from a wide variety of industries, including DAX corporations as well as medium-sized companies.
swell
- Decarbonisation initiative "On the way to the 2 ° economy"
- Declaration "Paris makes the global energy transition irreversible"
- Annual reports of the Foundation 2 °
- Foundation 2 ° policy paper
- ↑ Foundation 2 degrees: For crisis management and future viability: Make our economy more crisis-proof with an economic climate program. April 27, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Klaus Stratmann, Silke Kersting, Eva Fischer: Appeal of the economy: More than 60 companies demand commitment to climate protection. In: Handelsblatt. April 26, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .