The campaign calls on all individuals to contribute more actively to climate protection with the aim to achieve a 20% reduction of CO2 emissions in the city by 2015. The posters show citizens advising their fellow citizens on how their individual contributions can help to achieve this goal. The ongoing climate protection campaign entitled “Climate looking for protection in Heidelberg - also with you” [1]is carried out together with partners from craft, industry and environmental associations and aims to inform as many citizens as possible about possibilities of climate protection by showing them possible types of actions and encouraging them to participate. Everybody can become a protector of Heidelberg’s climate, regardless of sex, age, nationality or party affiliation. Being a Heidelberg climate protector means:

• Acting in order to save CO2.
• Breaking free from old prejudices such as the one which claims that climate protection necessarily means confinement and loss of quality of life.
• Reducing CO2 emissions by taking small measures in everyday life: replacing light bulbs by energy-saving lamps, going shopping on foot more often, switching PC screens off while taking a break, refraining from permanently using the stand-by mode, organising carpools to get to the office - acting more simply and more conscientiously!

So far 236 posters have been designed with over 450 people all of whom have publicly come out of the closet on climate protection by contributing a quote.

You can view the poster gallery of the climate protectors on the website: http://klimasuchtschutz.heidelberg.de

The first one hundred posters were displayed on the Neckar meadow during the action day “Living Neckar” on 17 June 2007. Further exhibitions will follow on the 20th of August in the foyer of the City Hall.

Blandine Pidoux
Information Manager