Sustainability is GIZ’s guiding principle and forms the basis for our contributions to shaping a society that is fit for the future. We compile and analyse all the most important climate and environmental data every year to gain a better understanding of our environmental sustainability and continuously improve our performance. Externally validated information about our activities in Germany is provided by the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). We have also developed our own environmental management tool, the Corporate Sustainability Handprint® (CSH), as a source of data on our operations in other countries. GIZ has gathered climate and environmental data for its German locations since 1999. Following the adoption of EMAS in 2013, environmental figures are now checked each year by an accredited environmental consultant to ensure that they are complete and plausible. In the same year, we piloted systematic data collectionin our partner countries. The CSH was rolled out to include all country offices in 2016, and in 2018 we introduced a requirement to compile environmental data every year. Further information about the methods we use to calculate climate and environmental data can be found in the section entitled ‘Notes on calculation methods’. We have summarised all this information in the publication ‘Climate and environmental data 2020’, which is aimed at all employees and anyone outside the company with a professional interest in our environmental performance. This document includes all the most important climate and environmental data for our sites in both Germany and our partner countries for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2020. The figures for Germany are the totals as at 31 July 2021. Previous publications may show other data.
This report presents the main results of the EU-funded IN-SIGHT project ‘Strengthening Innovation Processes for Growth and Development’. The authors sketched out a conceptual framework and knowledge base for a more effective European policy on innovation in agriculture and rural...
The present case study investigated a policy-induced agricultural innovation network in Brandenburg. It focussed on three major questions: 1) What are features of the network that enhanced farmers’ ability to innovate in cooperation with other actors?; 2) What influencing factors encouraged the farmers’...
This report provides a synthesis of all findings and information generated through a “stocktaking” process that involved a desk study of Prolinnova documents and evaluation reports, a questionnaire to 40 staff members of international organizations in agricultural research and development (ARD),...
Esta Política de Estado se sustenta en cuatro ejes temáticos, que hemos convenido en llamar los pilares de la política: a) competitividad; b) innovación y desarrollo tecnológico; c) gestión de los territorios rurales y agricultura familiar; y d) cambio climático...
The case studies reported here form part of ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality through agricultural and environmental innovation’; a qualitative comparative research to examine the gender dimensions of innovations – new agricultural and natural resource management technologies, institutions, and practices. Despite...