Negotiating Change: Sustainability in Brandenburg

In the RIFS podcast Wandel verhandeln. Nachhaltig in Brandenburg (“Negotiating Change: Sustainability in Brandenburg”), we explored how sustainability strategies are being implemented in Brandenburg. From an affordable and ecological heat supply to new forms of peatland management: the state of Brandenburg and its cities and municipalities are taking action to boost the sustainability of their operations in a variety of areas. Inevitably, different interest collide in this process. How do stakeholders successfully negotiate to find solutions that are mutually acceptable? What challenges do they face, and what positive outcomes have already emerged? This policy paper summarises our findings on how municipalities and projects in Brandenburg can chart a path to sustainability that is right for them and how the state of Brandenburg can support them.