SAVEStrategic Alliances Viable Earth
We bring research and decision-making power into the same room.
SAVE (Strategic Alliances Viable Earth) is a non-profit based in Hamburg. We make sure the best evidence on the gravest risks of our time reaches decision-makers while the decision is still open: in German ministries, the Bundestag, the European Commission and at the UN climate conferences.
After the protest comes the conversation. We make it happen.
What our work has already moved
We measure ourselves by connections that would not have happened without us, and by what decision-makers do next.
From one email to the Bundestag and a federal ministry
How SAVE works, illustrated by climate tipping points.
One email
We wrote to the team of then Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. A message in a bottle.
A meeting
The reply became a meeting, and the meeting became a series of conversations.
Preparation
Who sits at the table, what moves them, what does the research say? We brought studies on the planetary commons, UN reform and tipping points.
The scientists
We connected ministries with authors of the Global Tipping Points Report. Scientific findings became policy recommendations.
The Bundestag
One week after the 2025 report was published, the Bundestag debated climate tipping points for the first time.
The ministry
More than 40 BMZ and GIZ staff attended the briefing. BMZ then planned a follow-up format.
One method, many risks
Climate, artificial intelligence or nuclear weapons: everywhere, the knowledge sits in one room and the decision in another. Our projects close that gap.
Climate tipping points
Earth system science in ministries, the Bundestag, the European Commission and at COP.
SAVEadvise & connections
Strategic advice, funding and open doors for high-impact organisations.
Advocacy training
We prepare the people who will be in the room.
AI governance
Keeping power over artificial intelligence democratically accountable.
Nuclear weapons policy
A circle of critical scholars, ready for the next window.
EU and China
A delegation of European climate and energy experts to Beijing.
Making climate finance visible
With IKI and ZUG, Indigenous partners in Brazil and new voices.
Who we talk to
A selection of the institutions and people SAVE has worked with, negotiated with or connected with each other.
German federal level
- German Bundestag
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and GIZ
- Team at the Federal Foreign Office
- Federal Environment Ministry
Europe
- EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra and his cabinet
- Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA)
- EU negotiating team for the UN climate conferences
- European Parliament
United Nations
- COP30 Presidency and the COP30 Action Agenda team
- UN climate conferences COP26 to COP30, SB64 intersessional in Bonn
- International Climate Initiative (IKI) and ZUG
“With his extensive expertise and political analytical skills, Johnny Stengel contributes to the work of the climate justice movement at the German and international level. With him, things get done!”
Make the next conversation possible.
Every donation pays for preparation, travel to negotiations and the time that good connections take. Donors in Germany receive a tax receipt.