Press release

Minimising red tape: Companies to get help implementing new sustainability standards

A joint press release from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)

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COP28 must continue to push global climate financing despite multiple crises!

Members of the German Council for Sustainable Development at COP28 in Dubai

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Ways out of the current crises

Initial recommendations of the German Council for Sustainable Development for updating the country’s sustainable development strategy and advancing sustainability governance

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RNE calls for mobilisation of global capital to hit SDGs

Further recommendations: reforming the World Bank into a transformation bank, debt relief and reforming the special drawing rights of the IMF

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Modernise and accelerate, yes, but please think ahead

German Council for Sustainable Development to support implementation of coalition committee findings with constructive feedback

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Reiner Hoffmann elected new Chair of the German Council for Sustainable Development

Berlin, 16.02.2023 – At their inaugural meeting in the Federal Chancellery, the members of the newly reappointed German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) unanimously elected Reiner Hoffmann, former president of the German Trade Union Confederation, as their new chair. He succeeds Werner Schnappauf, who had previously held the RNE Chair since 2020.

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