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It is no secret that these really diverse requirements and interests are frequently difficult to bring under one roof. This is why the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg pur- sued an innovative path, giving the ‘Stiftung Lebens- raum Elbe’ or ‘Elbe Habitat Foundation’ a legal basis. This is a good example of business & industry, nature protection and city-
plement measures and projects. The bulk of the funds are generated by five percent of port dues collected in Hamburg that are made available to the Foundation.
Dr. Elisabeth Klocke, Managing Director of the Foun- dation, is convinced of the value of its work: “With the Elbe Habitat Foundation, the City-State parlia-
state, despite all their differences, singing from the same hymn- sheet.
“Stakeholders, whose interests could hardly be further apart, work together on projects.”
Dr. Elisabeth Klocke, Foundation MD
ment brought a trend-setting project into being: stake- holders, whose in- terests could hardly be further apart but, who are committed to the Elbe habitat and economic area like no other, work together on pro-
The Elbe Habitat
Foundation was en-
dorsed in May 2010
by the Hamburg city-
state parliament, ei-
ther to implement its
own projects for the improvement of the ecological con- dition of the Tidal Elbe, or to promote external projects. On the eleven-member Foundation board, for the first time representatives from business & industry, the City- State, and the environmental associations, jointly work out solutions for the Elbe tidal habitat. Some three mil- lion euros are available to the foundation annually to im-
jects.” In the meantime, seventy of them have been tackled, or promoted by the Foundation, from remov- al of riverbank revetments, setting up tide-ways in the dyke forelands, educational activities for school class- es and upgrading Elbe tributaries. “In 2018, there will be some 15 new projects,” states this doctor of chemistry.
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