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Network

SAVE works at the seams between groups that rarely talk to each other. Here is who we have worked with, negotiated with or connected with each other.

German federal level

  • German Bundestag, members of all democratic parliamentary groups
  • BMZ and GIZ
  • Team at the Federal Foreign Office
  • Federal Environment Ministry
  • Staff of two further federal ministries (workshop, May 2025)

European Union

  • EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra and his cabinet
  • Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA)
  • EU negotiating team for the UN climate conferences
  • Members of the European Parliament, including Peter Liese

United Nations and diplomacy

  • COP30 President and CEO of the COP30 Executive Direction
  • COP30 Action Agenda team
  • Colombian government (preparing the Santa Marta conference)
  • UN climate conferences COP26 to COP30, SB64 in Bonn

Science

  • Authors of the Global Tipping Points Report, including Professor Tim Lenton (University of Exeter)
  • Professor Johan Rockström as a speaker at the National Risk Summit
  • Leading nuclear policy scholars from the UK, Germany and France
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Civil society

  • Climate Action Network Europe and Climate Alliance Germany
  • Fridays for Future, GermanZero, Scientists4Future
  • World Youth for Climate Justice, Global Youth Coalition
  • European Environmental Bureau, Climate-KIC, Revive Earth
  • Projekt 2045, PRÜF, ADFC

Funders, business and venues

  • International Climate Initiative (IKI) and ZUG gGmbH
  • Körber Foundation, Hamburg
  • Ecosia, Berlin
  • Allianz Foundation
  • German-Chinese Friendship Association (GDCV)

Impressions from our work

A few moments in which we brought people and organisations together.

Group photo outside the European Commission’s Berlaymont building in Brussels
Brussels, outside the European Commission: we made EU-level lobbying meetings more effective for Deutscher Naturschutzring, Climate Alliance Germany, Ecopreneur, PIK and CAN.
Meeting around a long conference table
Berlin: high-level lobbying meetings with Climate Alliance Germany, Deutscher Naturschutzring and CAN.
Large group photo in the hall of a UN climate conference
At a UN climate conference: we have advised networks and umbrella organisations such as CAN Europe on strategy.
Selfie of young activists wearing conference badges
At a UN climate conference: through our back office, we prepared international activists for lobbying meetings with daily briefings and trained the Global Youth Coalition.
Two smiling men with a view over Hamburg behind them
Hamburg, Millerntor Bunker: together with event manager Stefan Lohmann, we organised cross-sector climate conferences there for 2,000 paying guests.
Discussion group with many participants in an event hall
Exchange with sustainable business: we supported the German Sustainable Business Association (BNW), Ecopreneur and B.A.U.M. with emissions trading briefings and policy and strategy advice.

Encounters

Founder Johnny Stengel in conversation with people from politics, civil society and technology.

Johnny Stengel and Robert Habeck at COP29 in Baku
COP29 in Baku: founder Johnny Stengel with Robert Habeck at the German Pavilion. With persona briefings, we had prepared MAPA activists for their meeting with the minister.
Johnny Stengel and Jennifer Morgan smiling at the camera
With Jennifer Morgan, climate diplomat and former head of Greenpeace International.
Outdoor conversation with Meredith Whittaker
In conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, about possible briefings on EU policy.
Johnny Stengel and Alberto Alemanno at an evening event
With Alberto Alemanno, founder of The Good Lobby, discussing a joint EU actor mapping.
Four people at a UN climate conference venue, including Vanessa Nakate
With Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate and fellow activists at a UN climate conference.
Johnny Stengel and Christoph Bals at a UN climate conference venue
With Christoph Bals, Policy Director of Germanwatch, at a UN climate conference.

Why a network creates impact

Research institutes, ministries and movements each have dense networks on the inside, but few bridges to one another. Those bridges are what we build: at the right moment, with the consent of both sides, and with follow-up after every introduction.

Our actor map shows who holds which knowledge, relationship and mandate, so gaps become visible before they cost a decision.

Read our theory of change

Map of Change actor map: map of organisations, theme wheel and detail view of an organisationTwo pilot modules: political finance and party donations, and the lobbying and think tank landscape
Details from our Map of Change actor map: the login version with its themes, and pilot modules on party finance and the lobbying landscape

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