An idea can gain momentum when someone like Greta Thunberg is behind it. Just a year after beginning her school strike for clim…
More and more Hamburg founders are starting with a sustainable business idea. In loose succession, Hamburg News presents particularly promising concepts
An idea can gain momentum when someone like Greta Thunberg is behind it. Just a year after beginning her school strike for clim…
Trend to package-free food rising as more stores open up
Hamburg’s first unpackaged shop called Stückgut has been operating an entirely different concept successfully since 2016. Food, hygiene products and cleansing agents are sold entirely without packaging –…
Receipts mandatory from January 1st - grocery stores to issue receipts free of chemicals
The Hamburg-based grocery store chain, Edeka and its discounter Netto, will issue mandatory receipts on blue-grey thermal paper to comply with a new law effective from January 1, 20…
Hamburg-based Terrorists of Beauty seeks social rethink with natural ingredients as tools
Violence is not their thing. Natalie Richter and Mar Navajas Garcia, the founders of Terrorists of Beauty, see their provocative company name as a kind of communication strategy: “We do…
"Bicycle Monitor Germany 2019" certifies Hamburg bike-friendliness - more advances likely
Hamburg’s cycling infrastructure is set for yet another boost and will be combined with high-quality services, if Kirstin Pfaue, Cycling Co-ordinator has her way. Commenting on the…
Retail versus online shopping, hit gifts and just how important is sustainability?
Residents of Hamburg plan to spend an average of EUR 474 on Christmas gifts this year. Around 83 per cent of 23 to 38-year-olds want to order most gifts online similar to 67 per cent of 3…
55 per cent cut to CO2 emissions by 2030 - Hamburg to become climate-neutral by 2050
The senate presented Tuesday (December 3, 2019) its continued climate plan and a new climate protection law for achieving Hamburg’s climate goals. CO2 emissions are to be cut …
Tiny Escape offer city dwellers time out - exposed to nature and downsizing
Just let your mind drift – it’s pleasant and the ideal remedy for burnout. Tiny Escape’s origins lie in Sophie Müller’s desire to escape the bustling city briefly, to tank up with energy drawn from n…
Firm's product wins Malaga's Global Blockchain Challenge and Future Hamburg Award
LignoPure, an early stage start-up based in Hamburg, has won the innovation category of the Global Blockchain Challenge, which ended Wednesday (November 13, 2019) in Malaga. This late…
Conference part of run-up to Social Media Week 2020
A session focusing on “Sustainable Corporate Communications” was held in Hamburg Thursday (November 7, 2019) in the run-up to Social Media Week underway from February 24-28, 2020. During the session, delegates gained insight int…
Chamber of Commerce honours Effenberg bakery's exemplary mobility concept
The Effenberger Vollkornbäckerei in Hamburg has been awarded the Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 prize for exemplary and environment-friendly mobility based on its use of electric delive…
Recycled plastic goes digital with Cirplus - 30 global firms in pilot project
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…