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24.01.2020 Article

Why climate change is foreign policy: The Federal Foreign Office Climate Diplomacy Report

Climate change will shift key coordinates of foreign policy in the coming years and decades. Even now, climate policy is more than just environment policy; it has long since arrived at the centre of foreign policy.

Climate policy is more than just environment policy
16.12.2019 Article

ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting: Asia and Europe – together strong

The ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is being held in Madrid on 15 and 16 December. The meeting, the only format that regularly brings all EU Foreign Ministers together with their Asian counterparts, this year aims to issue a signal for a strong, rules-based global order.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Madrid
29.11.2019 Article

60 years of the Antarctic Treaty – An international success story

In December 1959, the signatory States to the Antarctic Treaty agreed on a milestone in the multilateral world order: in the interest of all mankind, the “seventh continent” was forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and scientific investigation.

German Neumayer III research station in Antarctica
23.09.2019 Article

Ambitious climate goals for Germany

On 20 September, just a few days before the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, the climate cabinet met to agree the main points of the 2030 climate protection programme. The package of measures is designed to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.

Ambitious climate goals for Germany
21.08.2019 Article

Germany is taking on more responsibility for the Arctic

German Government adopts its Arctic policy guidelines and is campaigning internationally for a peaceful and responsible use of the Arctic.

A small iceberg in Sirmilik National Park in Pond Inlet/Canada

Press releases

  1. 21.08.2019 Press release

    German Arctic policy guidelines: Assuming responsibility, creating trust, shaping the future

  2. 22.03.2018 Press release

    Joint press release by Germany and Spain on World Water Day

  3. 22.03.2016 Press release

    World Water Day 2016

  4. 07.09.2015 Press release

    Conference on Water and Good Neighbourly Relations in Central Asia

  5. 30.07.2015 Press release

    Foreign Minister Steinmeier and Environment Minister Hendricks comment on UN anti-poaching resolution

  6. 18.11.2014 Press release

    'Water Stories': a transnational report journal produced as part of the Federal Foreign Office’s Central Asia Water Initiative

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