Overview for topic: Municipality

On 13.10.2010, the Lord Mayors of 16 German cities submitted strategic cornerstones for sustainable development in municipalities. Represented in Berlin by Lord Mayors Werner Spec (Ludwigsburg), Burkhard Jung (Leipzig) and Dieter Salomon (Freiburg), they called on politicians at federal and Laender level to provide greater support and improved framework conditions for sustainable financial, economic and climate policies. They invited all those with responsibility at the municipal, Laender and federal levels to support their cornerstones. The 16 Lord Mayors come from cities throughout Germany which lead the way in municipal sustainability policy. With the assistance of the German Council for Sustainable Development, they have agreed on what more they want to do in the name of sustainable development in their cities and beyond.

"Intergenerational Dialogue in Practice – Citizens Initiate Sustainability" is a contribution to the national sustainability strategy made by the Federal Government which jointly sponsors the competition along with the German Council for Sustainable Development. By staging this competition, the Federal Government and the German Council for Sustainable Development seek to honour and support the many forms of voluntary civil involvement.

Die Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie ist ein wichtiges Zukunftsprogramm, um „das Morgen“ zu gestalten. Die Bundesregierung wird sie bis Herbst 2008 aktualisieren. Doch die Umsetzung auf kommunaler Ebene entscheidet über ihren Erfolg. Nachhaltigkeitspolitik findet vor Ort in den Kommunen statt! Der Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung hat die einhundert jüngsten KommunalpolitikerInnen Deutschlands vom 12. bis 14. Juni 2008 nach Berlin eingeladen, damit sie mit ihren praktischen politischen Erfahrungen die Nachhaltigkeitspolitik der Bundesregierung auf den Prüfstand stellen.