Environment

Five years after its year as European Green Capital, Hamburg still stands for being a sustainable city, addressing the challenges of urban environmental and climate protection.

Having been awarded the title of European Green Capital, Hamburg had set itself the goals of advancing its own environmental protection in a sustainable fashion and of conceptually developing its environmental policy.

From the Elbe into the Alster: Senator for Environment opens fish ladder.

Green Procurement Guidelines make Hamburg a purchasing pioneer. The city purchases goods, products and services to the sum of around €250 million each year. § 3b of the Hamburg Public Procurement Act (HmbVgG) stipulates since 2013 the objective that contracting authorities have to ensure that negative environmental impacts are avoided in the production, delivery, use and disposal of the items or services to be procured, insofar as this is economically justifiable. Since 2011 Hamburg bears the title of Fairtrade-Town, it was in 2011 the Environmental Capital of Europe and has joined the network of organic food cities in 2016.