People in positions of responsibility can make a crucial contribution to positive social change. The BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt promotes responsible leadership and inspires leaders worldwide to work towards a peaceful, just and sustainable future. Through our programs, networks and investments we provide a platform on which leaders can enhance their personal and professional responsibility contributing to the achievement of the Agenda 2030.
Originally, The Michael Otto Foundation focused on grants for nature conversation, especially in water-related livelihoods, mainly in Northern Germany. It gradually evolved into a more international and more operational mode, as a bridge builder and dialogue platform for different stakeholder groups from business, politics and civil society to identify and foster solutions for sustainability.
FARN works on a wide range of environmental issues and pushes for transparency, public participation in decision making processes and compliance to civil rights and the environmental laws in all institutions. Its scope of action is focused on Argentina, but FARN is also engageded in networks in Latin America and globally, working on issues of biodiversity, sustainable finance, climate change, energy transition, regulation of extractive industries, sustainable agriculture, among others. FARN promotes public access to information, justice, democratic and participatory citizenship. FARN’s work emphasizes civil participation because citizens are the ones who must comply with and enforce laws, agree on policies and allocate resources to prevent environmental degradation.
At Avina Foundation, we aim to support stakeholders in Latin America in the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030. We work with a multi-stakeholder strategy approach, bringing together public sector, business and civil society for a collaborative process. We aim to achieve a triple innovation strategy encom-passing social, economic and technological innovation to accelerate the social transfor-mation needed for the achievements of the SDGs.
The Foundation for Sustainability is aiming to ensure that Germany is living up to its responsibility in the implementation of the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. The Foundation is leading by example with respect to its investment strategy, coalition building, as well as concrete standpoints and actions. In all its endeavors, it strives to encourage others to follow suit. As one example of its activities, it is supporting a climate litigation case of a Peruvian mountain guide against German energy company RWE. The Foundation for Sustainability has been founded by Klaus Milke, chairman of the board of the climate advocacy organization Germanwatch and is supporting Germanwatch’s work and independence.
