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Ideas advancing SDG 13: Climate action

Programme nearbyCommunityFrankfurt

Join Frankfurt's water-saving pledge, one habit at a time

Join Frankfurt's water-saving pledge, one habit at a time The city's "Frankfurt spart Wasser!" campaign, now running its fourth-plus warm season, asks residents to treat drinking water as the precious resource it is as heat and drought periods stretch longer. Posters, tram wraps, and postcards carry pledges like "Ich dreh ab", "Ich spar's mir", and "Ich fang dich auf": turn it off, skip it, catch it. What you can do - Shower instead of bathing: five minutes under the shower uses roughly a third of a full bath (about 50 versus 150 litres), and a water-saving showerhead or flow restrictor cuts it further - Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or lathering up: saving hot water saves energy too - Run washing machines and dishwashers only when full, on eco programmes, and look for water-efficient models when buying new - Water the garden or balcony pots in the morning or evening, collect rainwater in a barrel, and choose drought-tolerant plants How it works The city renews the campaign each warm season with posters on Litfaßsäulen, tram and digital ads, U-Bahn messaging, and postcards stocked at neighbourhood libraries, restaurants, and cafés. It is part of Frankfurt's municipal water concept for securing long-term supply, and even children get a turn, with a button-making station at the GrünGürtel-Tier's birthday festival. Why it matters Longer heat and dry spells are lowering groundwater levels in and around Frankfurt. None of these habits cost much, but multiplied across a city they ease pressure on a resource everyone assumes will keep flowing from the tap.
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Programme nearbyRewildingSingapore

Walk Singapore's Supertree Grove at dusk

See living towers that harvest light and shade a city park Gardens by the Bay's Supertree Grove is the built image many people mean by Solarpunk architecture: vertical gardens, rainwater and solar systems, and a free outdoor grove open to walkers. Architizer's Solarpunk architecture essay notes icons like these inspire — and that green policy does the heavier lifting. What you can do - Walk the outdoor Supertree Grove for free (MRT Bayfront) - Stay for the free Garden Rhapsody light shows in the evening when listed on the Gardens site - Optional: book OCBC Skyway or conservatories if you want elevated or indoor biomes How it works Supertrees are engineered arbors that host plants, collect rain, and support park ventilation — symbols of Singapore's Garden City / City in Nature push, not a substitute for street trees and zoning. Why it matters Joyful biophilic places show the future already underfoot — then send you home hungry for canopy on your own block.
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Programme nearbyRewildingStuttgart

Sit in a Mobiles Grünes Zimmer

Rest in a rolling green room on the plaza Helix's Mobiles Grünes Zimmer is a freestanding green wall and kiwi trellis on a roll-off container: shade, edible herbs, seating, and a climate-adaptation demo that cities, schools, and citizen groups can host. Since 2016 the rooms tour public squares, stations, and events across Germany. What you can do - Sit and cool off when a room is deployed near you (Stuttgart-Feuerbach station plaza has hosted one) - Ask your school, Ortsbeirat, or Bürgerinitiative to host a room for a festival, heat day, or neighbourhood pop-up - Use the side panels as a meeting point for climate and greening talks How it works A truck drops the pre-grown room; Helix handles most care. Local organisers top up the water tank. Residents get an instant cool oasis without digging the square. Why it matters Heat islands become places to linger. Neighbours feel what green infrastructure can do before permanent plantings arrive.
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Programme nearbyEnergyMunich

Join the Munich Klima-Taler team

Join the Munich Klima-Taler team Munich joined the nationwide Klima-Taler network in 2025. Download the app, join the Landeshauptstadt München team, and collect one Taler per five kilograms of avoided CO₂ from walking, cycling, transit, and energy savings. Redeem at partner shops and services listed in the app. Businesses can join the marketplace for free because the city pays the licence. What you can do - Download Klima-Taler and join the Munich team via Re:think München - Log green trips and household meters, then spend Taler at partners on the in-app map - Shops: offer a reward through Munich Business (no fee) - This is a different city from the existing Frankfurt Klima-Taler listing How it works You can start without giving a name or email. Savings are credited to the city team you join. Offers change, so treat the app marketplace as the live list. Why it matters Playful rewards make everyday climate choices visible and keep spend with neighbourhood partners.
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Programme nearbyEnergyCologne

Join Klima-Taler city teams across Germany in Cologne

Join Klima-Taler city teams across Germany in Cologne More than 50 municipalities use Klima-Taler. Beyond Frankfurt and Munich, residents in Cologne, Aachen, Darmstadt, Königstein im Taunus, Hamm, Kempen, Leer, and many smaller towns join a city team, race friendly CO₂ rankings, and redeem tokens with 500+ partners, including municipal pools. Tokens work across the network, not only in your home town. What you can do - Download the app from klima-taler.com and join your city's team (no name required) - Cycle, walk, or ride transit; link meters if you want energy Taler - Redeem at local partners shown in the app (pools, museums, shops, clubs) - Schools, clubs, and workplaces can start their own teams - Municipal staff: ask via the cities form if your town is not listed yet How it works Blacksquared GmbH (Berlin) runs the software. Cities pay a licence so residents and local traders join free. Treat the in-app marketplace as the current redeem list: we do not copy shop directories here. Why it matters A shared climate currency makes quiet daily trips count in public, and it keeps spend local.
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Programme nearbyEnergyFrankfurt

Corporate Sustainability Handprint at GIZ field in Frankfurt

Corporate Sustainability Handprint at GIZ field in Frankfurt Outside Germany, GIZ teams use the Corporate Sustainability Handprint (CSH), a management tool that tracks both footprint (energy, water, travel) and handprint (active contributions such as solar arrays, carpooling, and fair procurement) in Frankfurt. Sustainability officers embed CSH targets in job roles so field offices contribute to the company-wide Sustainability Programme. What you can do - NGOs and development agencies: adapt the footprint/handprint split for your own country offices, track consumption and positive projects side by side - Municipal climate teams: borrow CSH indicators for embassies, twin-town partnerships, or international NGO hubs in your city - Workplace green teams: list one measurable handprint project per quarter (bike racks, PV, reusable event kit) How it works Country offices report CSH categories aligned with climate, procurement, and biodiversity goals. Handprint projects make visible what staff build, not only what they consume. Why it matters Corporate sustainability sticks when offices compete on contributions, not just compliance spreadsheets.
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Programme nearbyRewildingSingapore

Grow neighbourhood canopy with City in Nature

Plant and tend trees — the quiet half of Solarpunk Architizer's Solarpunk architecture essay warns that green towers without green policy become greenwash. Singapore's Green Plan 2030 — City in Nature and NParks' OneMillionTrees movement put residents in the soil: community plantings, facilitators, and park connectors that cool streets day after day. What you can do - Join NParks volunteering for OneMillionTrees facilitator training via Volunteer with us - Check Nature Kakis tree-planting sessions in your district - Read City in Nature strategies and lobby your own city for canopy targets, not only icon buildings How it works Residents plant and steward street and park trees under a national canopy goal. The spectacle of Supertrees is the postcard; the million trees are the climate work. Why it matters Solarpunk stays honest when neighbours dig holes — not when developers paste vines on glass.
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Programme nearbyRewildingStuttgart

Park a Klimakiste for bees and neighbours

Roll native planters onto a paved square The Helix Klimakiste is a pre-grown wooden box (about 120 × 100 × 80 cm) with a solitary shrub and flowering underplanting. Citizen initiatives, schools, and cities can move boxes in for events or trials, then move them again. Plant for wild bees from day one. What you can do - Propose Klimakisten for a schoolyard, market, or temporary greening ask via Helix Klimakiste - Help water and tend boxes when your group hosts them - Choose native perennials so insects find food on sealed ground How it works Boxes arrive cultivated and move with a pallet jack. They buy time: prove that plants change how a place feels before you unseal asphalt for good. Why it matters Paved plazas can still feed bees and invite conversation. Temporary green is a rehearsal for lasting canopy.
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Programme nearbyEnergyBrasilia

Weigh Brazil's energy transition at SESI Lab

Weigh Brazil's energy transition at SESI Lab Each cycle SESI Lab picks one transversal theme and runs it through exhibitions, educational activities, teacher training, publications, and technical partnerships. For 2025 and 2026 that theme is energy and the energy transition, which turns the museum on the Monumental Axis into a public room for working out how Brazil powers itself. What you can do - See which energy exhibitions and activities are running now on Exposições and the daily programação - Read the free digital curation Eficiência Energética: Aerogeradores, which connects electricity, renewable sources, and the form and function of a wind turbine - Walk the permanent Imaginando Futuros gallery, built to make visitors question the choices and decisions that shape the future (acervo digital) - Watch for the free course for education professionals on energy and sustainability, and for Night Lab evenings that take up the annual theme How it works The theme travels through the whole programme rather than sitting in one room. The interactive show Energia, Sou Watt? placed visitors at ten stations balancing economic growth, social justice, and environmental protection while deciding policy on nuclear power, mobility, production, and housing; it closed on 7 September, so treat it as a format to ask for rather than a live ticket. The Festival Energia brought five free public panels to Brasília: energy scenarios and transition, science communication and the climate emergency, decarbonisation and mobility, climate justice and sustainable development, and art and the climate emergency. Why it matters An energy transition is settled by people who can picture the trade-offs. A museum that hands you the dilemma instead of the conclusion builds exactly the civic muscle that climate policy runs on.
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Programme nearbyEnergyCopenhagen

Buy Middelgrunden wind shares, Copenhagen

Buy Middelgrunden wind shares, Copenhagen Middelgrundens Vindmøllelaug is a citizen wind coop off Copenhagen. New shares can sell out, but the public Handelsplads still lists peer transfers with a transfer contract. What you can do - Open the Handelsplads and read current share listings - Complete the transfer steps the laug publishes for buyers - Note the listed membership fee before you pay How it works Shares move between members through the marketplace. Confirm fees, contracts, and whether new-issue shares are available on the site. Why it matters Copenhagen residents can still join offshore wind as citizen owners, not only as grid customers.
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Programme nearbyEnergyStockholm

Get energy-community advice in Stockholm

Get energy-community advice in Stockholm Sveriges Energigemenskaper guides people who want to start or join a local energy community. Visit the Stockholm desk for public advice. What you can do - Open sverigesenergigemenskaper.se - Ask how to start or join a gemenskap near you - Visit Maria Skolgata 83 when advice hours are listed How it works Public guidance is the entry. They do not sell panels on the spot. Bring questions about your building or street. Why it matters Stockholm residents get a clear desk for shared renewable energy.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenLyon

Bio-waste source separation: AGEC law in action

France's circular economy law brings composting to every doorstep France's AGEC law (loi anti-gaspillage pour une économie circulaire) mandated source separation of bio-waste for all households from 1 January 2024. Municipalities across the country are now building collection infrastructure, distributing home composting equipment, and running resident education programmes to turn a legal obligation into a daily community habit. What municipalities are doing - Distributing separate bio-waste bins and/or home composting containers - Running neighbourhood workshops on what can be composted and how - Deploying door-to-door collection routes for organic kitchen waste - Partnering with local farms and green spaces to close the loop from food waste to compost How to engage - Check your municipality's website for the bio-waste collection calendar and bin distribution schedule - Attend a local composting workshop: many communes organise them in spring and autumn - Ask your building's property manager about a shared composter if you live in an apartment - Follow Zero Waste France for national advocacy and practical guides Why it matters Only 26% of EU food waste was captured in 2023 (up from 18% in 2020). France's AGEC law creates the legal architecture for a step change: but only works when residents and municipalities implement it together. Every neighbourhood that adopts source separation reduces landfill and methane emissions while creating local compost for urban greening.
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