Based on the fundamental values that corsus lives by in our day-to-day work, we will of course be taking part in the “Hamburg stands up – against right-wing extremism and neo-Nazi networks” demonstration on Jungfernstieg on 19 January 2024.
At the online breakfast Sustainability Reporting Compact on 9 November 2023, organized by GrønBusiness and sponsored by Interreg Deutschland-Danmark, Verena Timmer gave insights into why it makes sense to systematically deal with sustainability even beyond the reporting obligation.
After six years, the “Globally Sustainable Municipality Schleswig-Holstein” (GNK) project is coming to an end. The network meeting of the GNK municipalities was therefore held in the state capital of Kiel with words of welcome from State Secretary Katja Günther and a certificate presentation ceremony.
St. Peter-Ording took first place in the competition “Capital of Fair Trade” for the first time. The coastal town was honoured for its commitment to fair trade and fair procurement on 5 October 2023 in the presence of the Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
On 12 September 2023, Dr Anke Butscher presented the draft mission statement of the municipality of Hagen im Bremischen to the municipality’s economic and structural development committee. The mission statement was developed together with a cross-factional working group. Now the citizens are asked to send back their ideas and suggestions.
On February 23, the Flensburg City Council adopted the strategic goals of the urban development strategy “Flensburg 2030” by a majority vote and thus took a big step towards positioning itself for the future in terms of sustainability. Since autumn 2021, corsus has been accompanying the development process of the city development strategy, which will run until the end of 2023.
The municipality of St. Peter-Ording was nominated on November 9 at the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for the first German SDG Award (Sustainable Development Goals) of the Senate of the German Economy in the category “Cities, Municipalities & Counties” out of more than 100 applications. This recognizes the local development concept “Sustainable St. Peter-Ording” as an exemplary project that is consistently aligned with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
