I support PowerShift because it connects world trade and raw material mining with pollution, human rights violations and climate change, does very dedicated and competent research and makes it public. I also very much appreciate the fact that PowerShift makes the connection to consumption in Germany and to the wealthy and shows solutions.

I think it is very important that these references are brought to the public underpinned by facts.

I donate to a solidarity-environmental world economy because I want to live a good life for all People want to, especially for all children - not only for the children of the more than 3000 billionaires with 11 trillion US dollars, whose wealth has grown by 3.3 trillion US dollars worldwide since 2020.

I like to support PowerShift because people with different career paths work together in a goal-oriented and value-based way. I was able to gain this impression as the driving force behind the Round Table on Renewable Energies (www.energiewende-2030.de) work early. In my opinion, the results of PowerShift that I know are well-versed and can provide decision-makers with appropriate support.

I support PowerShift because I want to live in a just world that is free from exploitation.

In my professional life as an administrative lawyer, I have dealt with shaping social situations through functioning and fair regulations with an appropriate balance of interests.

In 2012, I learned from the press that the secret negotiations on TTIP, the planned free trade agreement between the EU and the US, provided for private arbitration tribunals that can override national laws in favor of investors in investor-state lawsuits (ISDS). The restriction of national sovereignty in legislation has led me to participate in the campaign against TTIP and CETA. I found it scandalous that such important agreements, which define the framework conditions for European and German society, are negotiated in public without democratic discussion.

So-called free trade agreements only protect the rights of investors and often have an unfavourable effect on the economic development of the countries of the global south. It is necessary that ‘free trade agreements’ are reviewed by experts for social, economic and environmental impacts before they are concluded, so that civil society and MEPs can assess the impact and act accordingly. This requires competent NGOs such as Powershift.