corsus at the presentation of the 17th German Sustainability Award. It is important to celebrate courageous companies and initiatives that are actively driving change.
At the end of August, a pioneering project took place on the former Tempelhof airport site in Berlin with three concerts by the German band ‘Die Ärzte’ that were as sustainable as possible. With around 50,000 visitors per day, concerts have so far caused large amounts of waste and CO2 emissions. Mathis Tommek, working student at corsus, supported the sustainable event organisation as an ambassador.
In november the ‘Tempelhof Laboratory’ will receive a special prize at the German Sustainability Award for its pioneering role in the implementation of environmentally friendly and resource-positive events!
On 26 September, corsus moderated the symposium ‘Climate justice as a social issue’ in Schwerin. The hybrid event, organised by the Association of One World Regional Networks in Germany (agl) and the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, brought together local actors and international activists from India and South Africa to share their experiences. In addition to the participants in the Wichernsaal, other guests took part online, including a school class from South Africa.
The managing directors of corsus were appointed to the juries of the German Sustainability Award for both companies and products.
In an interview with Tagesspiegel Backround, corsus argues in favour of the eco-footprint of food and calls for standardised rules for environmental labels in Germany.
Marius Rödder presented the methodological concept for a climate and environmental label at the DAFA conference “Agricultural Research on Climate Change” (11 to 14 March 2024 in Potsdam).
On 11 March 2024, Ulrike Eberle gave a presentation on the climate labelling of food and the database required for this at Bitkom’s Food Tech #7 roundtable in Berlin
corsus discusses with the members of the Together for Carbon Labelling (TCL) initiative the methodological concept for an environmental label for food developed as part of the EEKLIM project
Carola Strycharz interviewed about her current work as project administrator for the CLIF Climate Impacts of Food project at corsus.
On 19 October 2023, Dr Ulrike Eberle gave a presentation on environmental labelling of food products to members of the German Bundestag as part of the initiative ‘Together for Carbon Labelling’ (TCL).
