Urgewald Information

For 30 years, Urgewald has been campaigning against environmental destruction across the globe. We began as a small group of activists focusing on saving the Amazon rainforest. Along the way in 1994, our director Heffa Schuecking received the Goldman Environmental Prize, honoring her work in revealing Germany’s role in destroying tropical forests worldwide. Since then, Urgewald has grown into an organization of many experts. In the last years, we have been concentrating on the financing of energy companies and their impacts on people and the environment - especially in the coal, oil and gas industry. Urgewald has led many successful campaigns. One of our major successes was the coal divestment decision of Norway's gigantic pension fund in 2015. We are the developers of the unique divestment tools Global Coal Exit List (coalexit.org) and Global Oil & Gas Exit List (gogel.org).