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CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION 🌞 RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION 🛟 SOCIAL EQUITY AND A CITY FOR ALL 💕

BERLIN 🐻 AN EMERGING 🐝 GLOBAL 🌍 IMPACT CAPITAL 🌳

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How is Berlin’s impact ecosystem contributing to tackling sustainability challenges and building solutions that ease the consequences of climate change, while pioneering equitable initiatives?

🌳 MITIGATION

🛟 ADAPTATION

💕 RESPONSIBILITY

A collection of impact stories that showcase how Berlin is emerging as a global impact capital.

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Story No. 1

Berlin and the ocean.

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Landlocked 😭

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Underwater coral reef with numerous small orange fish swimming around.

but saving the oceans.

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Berlin, known more for history and hedonism than humpback whales, has become an unexpected advocate for ocean conservation. The city's innovative startups are making a global impact, showing that saving the seas isn't confined to coastal areas.

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Story No. 2

A grassroots movement for greener cities.

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Schrebergärten

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the environment hubs.

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Learn about these truly green hubs and how communities can be activated to transform the landscape and climate of a city, one garden at a time.

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Community garden with wooden planters, green plants, and flowers. A rustic table and stump seating are visible. Buildings and trees are in the background.

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Story No. 3

Innovation on the plate.

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👋🤤 Guten Appetit.

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Changing dietary habits or how we source and produce food is instrumental if we want to reduce CO2 emissions and be ready to face disruptions in supply chains or extinction of crops.

There is more than Döner

and Currywurst going on.

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Currywurst with sauce and curry powder in a white tray with wooden fork

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A hub for food innovation, Berlin is at the forefront of the movement towards sustainable and healthier food options, with numerous startups dedicated to pioneering the future of food such as Project Eaden and BettaF!sh. These visionary companies are focused on developing innovative meat, dairy, and egg alternatives and other cutting-edge food technologies that prioritize environmental sustainability while promoting better health.

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Story No. 4

Ideas taking off.

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We have 3 airports

that are not bad for

the environment. 💺

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Discover how Berlin is transforming old airport infrastructure into innovative urban spaces, green parks, vibrant cultural hubs, and sustainable community centers—showing how it’s done for other cities grappling with unused aviation facilities.

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TEMPLEHOFER FELD

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TXL URBAN TECH REPUBLIC

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SCHÖNEFELD
(Just nothing to see there yet)

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Story No. 5

Impact happens at the intersection.

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Berlin is one of the best places in the world for people looking to join or start an impact business. But that depends on who you talk to.

Does the Impact Paradise fame hold its own when the startup ecosystem and other businesses are still far from being truly inclusive? How can Berlin address its biases and social injustices to nurture the best talent?

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