Topthema: Wahl des Bundespräsidenten

The American Academy in Berlin

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Receives the American Academy in Berlin’s 2023 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

‘Clear Direction for Climate Protection’ / DBU presents German Environmental Award

Lübeck/Osnabrück (ots) - The German Federal Environmental Foundation confers this year’s German Environmental Award today (Sunday) in Lübeck, worth a total of 500,000 euros – presented by German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to climate scientist Professor Friederike Otto and wood construction pioneer Dagmar Fritz-Kramer. Despite ongoing devastating ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

DBU’s German Environmental Award for Climate Scientist and Wood Construction Pioneer / Friederike Otto and Dagmar Fritz-Kramer this year’s recipients

Osnabrück (ots) - The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU – Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) has chosen two women as the joint recipients of this year’s German Environmental Award – climate scientist Professor Friederike Otto and wood construction entrepreneur Dagmar Fritz-Kramer will share the ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

"For the Shipping Industry, This Is a Gyro Gearloose Moment" / German Environmental Award for Energy and CO2 Reduction

Osnabrück (ots) - With their considerable ingenuity and entrepreneurial courage, the qualified engineers Friedrich Mewis and Dirk Lehmann have revolutionized the shipping world. With the Becker Mewis Duct (BMD), they have not only saved millions of tons of heavy fuel oil since its market launch in 2008, but have ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Wild Treasure Troves of Life / German Environmental Award for Dr. Christof Schenck

Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “We need a radical transition and more bold action for democracy”

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Steinmeier: Let us change course for climate protection and biodiversity / Federal President presents German Environmental Prize

Osnabrück/Darmstadt (ots) - With an appeal to our sense of solidarity as a global community, today (Sunday), at the darmstadtium conference centre in Darmstadt, Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for a change of course to conserve biodiversity and stop global warming. At the awards ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

“The award recipients give us hope” / Ecologist and peatland researcher receive German Environmental Prize

Osnabrück/Darmstadt (ots) - Today (Sunday) in Darmstadt, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) honoured exceptional efforts in the fight against climate change and to protect biodiversity with one of Europe’s most prestigious and highly endowed environmental awards. German President Frank-Walter ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Steinmeier: We cannot lose sight of the other major challenges facing mankind / German President recognises German Environmental Award as "a particularly important message"

Hannover/Osnabrück (ots) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recognised the German Federal Environmental Foundation's German Environmental Award as "a particularly important message" for us not to lose sight of "other major challenges facing mankind" in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The award, which ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

German President symbolically presents German Environmental Award via video message / "Taking the climate crisis seriously despite the COVID-19 pandemic "

Hannover/Osnabrück (ots) - Today (25 October 2020), the German Federal Environmental Foundation's German Environmental Award, which has a remuneration of EUR 500,000, is being presented for the 28th time at the HCC Hannover Congress Centrum. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, German President Frank-Walter ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Bonde: Exceptional dedication to climate protection

Osnabrück (ots) - The DBU German Environmental Prize awards climate economist Prof Dr Edenhofer and the Trappmanns, entrepreneurs in the field of metal packaging - the Honorary Award goes to entomologist Dr Martin Sorg Climate economist Prof Dr Ottmar Edenhofer (59) and the siblings Annika (28) and Hugo Sebastian (37) Trappmann, Managing Directors of the Blechwarenfabrik Limburg, will receive this year's German ...

Landeshauptstadt Dresden

75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Dresden: Remembrance, Dialogue, Interaction

Dresden (ots) - On 13 February 2020, Dresden will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the city centre's destruction during World War II. At 15:00, Federal President Mr Steinmeier will hold a commemorative speech; he will then join a human chain around the city centre together with the mayor of Dresden, Dirk Hilbert, and guests from Dresden's twin cities (18:00). ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

"Bold decisions today will trigger positive interactions for tomorrow" / Federal President presents DBU's German Environmental Award today - Kögel-Knabner and Schneider honoured

Mannheim (ots) - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on the citizens to "make bold decisions today" in environmental and climate protection to trigger "positive interactions for tomorrow". "The future is not simply predestined. It's up to us what we make of it," he said today at the presentation of ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

DBU honours innovators in the field of environmental protection who offer solutions for the future

Mannheim (ots) - The German Environmental Prize was awarded to soil researcher Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner and entrepreneur Reinhard Schneider The German Environmental Foundation (DBU) has awarded the German Environmental Prize for the 27th time. Today in Mannheim, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Head of the Board of Trustees of the DBU and ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

German Environmental Prize awarded to soil scientist and cleaning products manufacturer / Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (Munich) and Reinhard Schneider (Mainz) honoured on 27 October 2019 in Mannheim

CIVIS Medienstiftung

CIVIS Media Prizes 2019 - 14 programmes awarded in Berlin

Berlin (ots) - Europe's most important media prize for integration and cultural diversity was awarded on Thursday evening at a celebratory TV gala in the German Foreign Office in Berlin in front of around 400 invited guests. Fourteen programmes from the areas of film, television, radio and internet received prizes. A total of 767 programmes from 22 EU states and Switzerland took part in the competition. Pinar Atalay, ...

ARD Presse

European CIVIS Media Prize 2019 / 21 programmes nominated - four decisions already final!

Cologne (ots) - CIVIS Media Prize 2019 - Nominations and first awards! Anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism are the big topics in the CIVIS Competition 2019 - along with migration, integration, flight and asylum. The political climate in Germany and Europe is changing. What is at stake are our fundamental democratic values. Europe's most prestigious media prize for ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

"The effects of climate change are already apparent around the world." / The German President presented the DBU's German Environmental Prize today in Erfurt

Erfurt (ots) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanked "thousands of people" in Germany for ensuring that "mainstream society has truly become aware" of both the environment and environmental protection. At the award ceremony for the German Environmental Foundation's (DBU) German Environmental Prize that ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

The DBU highlights the importance of the oceans for climate, biodiversity and food supply

Erfurt (ots) - German Environmental Prize awarded to marine biologist Antje Boetius and a team of wastewater experts from Leipzig The German Environmental Foundation (DBU) has awarded the German Environmental Prize for the 26th time. Today in Erfurt, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Head of the Board of Trustees of the DBU and Parliamentary State ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

DBU: German Environmental Prize goes to Marine Biologist Boetius and Leipzig Waste Water Experts

ARD Presse

European CIVIS Media Prize 2018: 25 programmes nominated - three decisions already final

Cologne (ots) - CIVIS Media Prize 2018 - Nominations and first prize-winners Europe's most prestigious media prize for integration and cultural diversity is once again celebrating outstanding radio, film, TV and internet programmes. In 2018, a total of 847 programmes from 21 EU member states and Switzerland entered the Europe-wide competition. 25 programmes have been ...

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

DBU: Trio of Conservationists and Technology Pioneers receive German Environmental Prize