A digital online market for recyclates, set up by the Hamburg-based Cirplus start-up, is growing in popularity after 90 companies from 15 countries enquired about several ten thousand ton…
Recycled plastic goes digital with Cirplus - 30 global firms in pilot project
Project to enable documentation, analysis and mobility in co-operation with Wunder Mobility
The Hanseatic city and Wunder Mobility are launching a unique platform to make new mobility offers more transparent marking a first in Germany. This comes amid the rising importance of sus…
Senate to develop climate protection strategy with concrete measures by end of 2019
The Hamburg senate has agreed on guidelines and measures to reduce CO2 emissions by 55 per cent before 2030 over levels in 1990 as part of a new climate protection strategy. Hamburg remains commit…
Ambassador of SDGs highlights potential of blockchain for sustainable development
This year’s Earth Overshoot Day, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources, occurred on July 29, 2019 and earlier…
Berlin's Sirplus on mission to make waste food mainstream - over 100 enquiries from Hamburg
The founder of the Berlin-based Sirplus founder Raphael Fellmer is aiming to give edible food that has been discarded based on visual faults, overproduction or the best-before da…
Experts and politicians to discuss ideas, concepts and strategies in Chamber of Commerce
Experts in retail, the property sector, logistics and politics will come together on Wednesday (August 21, 2019) to discuss strategies, concepts and practical ideas at the first Hamburg Trade…
Impact Hub combining sustainability with entrepreneurism - crowdfunding to fund interior
Impact Hub is set to open its Hamburg branch in August in a bid to promote sustainable and socially equitable business models. The provider already hosts co-working spaces in more t…
Prize honours start-ups focusing on sustainability and climate protection
Start-ups focusing on environmental protection and sustainability have until the deadline of July 31, 2019 to apply for the StartGreen Awards, which will be presented on November 20, 2019 in Berlin during F…
8,000 supermarkets put Hamburg-based company's "cardboard house" on show
Tchibo launched Tuesday (July 9, 2019) Tchibo its “Sustainable Living. Every Day” campaign and presented a so-called House of Sustainability made of cardboard in 8,000 stores across Germa…
EU funds joint project iniatiated and led by HAW Hamburg
The European Union has allocated EUR 8.4 million for the joint Bioplasic Europe project to tackle plastics in seas. The project is part of its Horizon 2020 research programme. The consortium leader and initiator o…
Renewable Energies Cluster invites people to learn from Leuphana University
The Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster Agency is inviting people to view photovoltaic systems, aquifer heat storage and an “intelligent” control system for Leuphana University’s main building in Lüneburg on…
Series A round pays out EUR 8.3 million - Delivery Hero SE and DEG become partners
Bio-lutions International AG, the Hamburg-based manufacturer of ecological packaging and disposable tableware made from agricultural waste, has secure EUR 8.3 million in a Series A financ…
30 cities urge G20 to step up climate protection, social inclusion and sustainability
A total of 30 major cities including Chicago, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Sydney and Hamburg met Wednesday (May 22, 2019) at the Urban 20 Mayors Summit in Tokyo and urged governments to leverage the…
Startup opening "Green Pauli" vegetable and herb roof garden
The Überquell Brauwerkstätte is opening the 220-square metre Green Pauli urban gardening project on Thursday (May 23, 2019) at 3 pm. Partnered by local schools and the Altonaer Kinder Küche for children, the p…
Firms in Hamburg to lower CO2 emissions from production to disposal
Hamburg is promoting climate friendly production in a bid to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 over those in 1990 and by as much as 80 per cent before 2050. Industries across the city are already using climat…
Der Ex-Boxer und Unternehmer steigt in den Tee-Markt ein. Dies verkündete Klitschko beim Food Innovation Camp in Hamburg. Was dort sonst noch so los war
Erstmal eine Tasse Tee: Dieses Motto eines Zen-Meisters hat nun auch Wladimir Klitschko übernommen. Der ehemalige Boxer und Unt…
Fair now open to other industries including logistics
The private initiative Hamburg Startups and StartupSpot are hosting the Food Innovation Camp 2019 on Monday (May 20, 2019) in the Chamber of Commerce. Around 80 exhibitors will present their products in the food expo, which al…
New digital hub "Fahrrad.Hamburg" now online
Hamburg launched Tuesday (May 7, 2019) a campaign promoting cycling for a more beautiful Hamburg. The start was accompanied online by the new digital hub Fahrrad.Hamburg, campaign motifs and the music video “From Hamburg to t…
Paddle for free in Hamburg and collect plastic waste simultaneously
GreenKayak, a Danish NGO that aims to reduce the amount of waste in rivers and lakes, opened three new locations in Hamburg to coincide with the start of its latest season on Monday (April 27, 2019). Fr…
ATMO start-up to conquer Hamburg Metropolitan Region with its own festival
When people hear the name Glückstadt, herring comes to mind – this seaside town looks back on a centuries-old tradition of catching herring and whales. But, if Jonathan Hendess and Henrik Wiedwald have the…
Hydrogen vessel without gas emissions - model of sustainable shipping?
The Energy Observer, the world’s first hydrogen vessel without greenhouse gas emissions, arrived in Hamburg on April 26, 2019 for its 36th stopover. The vessel is on a worldwide tour of 101 ports. The catamara…
Hanseatic family business becomes world's first "supporting partner"
Hamburg’s Weischer Media has become the world’s first corporate recipient of the U.N.’s “Supporting Partner” title, which is endowed on companies that demonstrate special commitment to the Sustainable Developmen…
"Hive" gearing up for Germany-wide launch on campus
The e-scooter provider Hive launched a pilot project Tuesday (April 16, 201) on the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus. The 3,000 employees and scientists there can now try out a total of 100-electrically powered scoo…
University in 60th place on international "Impact University Ranking 2019"
Britain’s Times Higher Education (THE) magazine has ranked the University of Hamburg among the top 60 universities in the Impact University Ranking 2019 in terms of gender equality (rank 25), hig…