Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Apr 2026 | Terhi Lehtonen Cabinet member | Post-2030 climate and energy policy framework | — |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Julia Lemke Cabinet member | Post-2030 climate and energy policy framework | — |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Terhi Lehtonen Cabinet member | Post-2030 climate and energy policy framework | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Andrea Vettori Head of Unit | Meeting with Birdlife Europe and NABU on the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Andrea Vettori Head of Unit | Meeting with Birdlife Europe and NABU on the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives | — |
| 23 May 2025 | Maxi Espeter Cabinet member | Exchange of views on the Vision for Agriculture and Food and the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework and reform of the CAP | — |
| 23 May 2025 | Maxi Espeter Cabinet member | Exchange of views on the Vision for Agriculture and Food and the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework and reform of the CAP | SRC |
| 23 May 2025 | Pernille Weiss-Ehler Cabinet member | Exchange of views on nature financing in the post-2027 multifinancial framework and through nature credits | SRC |
| 23 May 2025 | Jessika Roswall Commissioner | Exchange of views on nature financing in the post-2027 multifinancial framework and through nature credits | SRC |
| 23 May 2025 | Jessika Roswall Commissioner | Exchange of views on nature financing in the post-2027 multifinancial framework and through nature credits | — |
| 08 May 2025 | Peter Van Kemseke Cabinet member | Exchange of views on the 2040 climate target, the EU Green Deal and the Clean Industrial Deal, and the Multiannual Financial Framework | — |
| 08 May 2025 | Peter Van Kemseke Cabinet member | Exchange of views on the 2040 climate target, the EU Green Deal and the Clean Industrial Deal, and the Multiannual Financial Framework | SRC |
| 27 Feb 2025 | Vita Jukne Cabinet member | Implementation and enforcement of EU environmental legislation | SRC |
| 27 Feb 2025 | Vita Jukne Cabinet member | Implementation and enforcement of EU environmental legislation | — |
| 07 Nov 2023 | Florika Fink-Hooijer Director-General | Environmental policies | SRC |
| 07 Nov 2023 | Florika Fink-Hooijer Director-General | Environmental policies | — |
| 07 Jul 2022 | Carmen Preising Cabinet member | Enforcement of existing EU (environmental) law | — |
| 07 Jul 2022 | Carmen Preising Cabinet member | Enforcement of existing EU (environmental) law | SRC |
| 10 May 2022 | Elena Montani Cabinet member | To discuss the RePower EU | — |
| 10 May 2022 | Riccardo Maggi Cabinet member | To discuss the RePower EU | — |
| 10 May 2022 | Riccardo Maggi Cabinet member | To discuss the RePower EU | SRC |
| 10 May 2022 | Elena Montani Cabinet member | To discuss the RePower EU | SRC |
| 30 Nov 2021 | Barbara Glowacka Cabinet member | To discuss the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive. | SRC |
| 30 Nov 2021 | Barbara Glowacka Cabinet member | To discuss the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive. | — |
| 08 Oct 2021 | Jorge Pinto Antunes Cabinet member | CAP programming and biodiversity protection in DE | SRC |
Mission & Goals
NABU, the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, was founded already in 1899. Today, with more than 960.000 members and supporters, it is the oldest and largest nature conservation NGO in Germany. The purpose of NABU is to promote nature conservation, landscape management and animal welfare, with a particular focus on wild birds, and to advocate for environmental protection, including educational and research work in the aforementioned areas. NABU is the German partner of BirdLife Europe / BirdLife International. NABU is a registered charity under German law (eingetragener, gemeinnütziger Verein). Due to the federal structure of Germany with shared responsibilities for nature conservation between the federal government and the governments of the 16 Federal States (Laender), NABU has 15 regional branches, and more than 2.000 local groups. In Bavaria, NABU is represented by the “Landesbund fuer Vogelschutz” (LBV, www.lbv.de).
EU Legislative Interests
NABU is inter alia focusing on implementing the EU Green Deal and its EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, etc. NABU is also pushing for the implementation of existing EU legislation such as the EU Nature Restoration Regulation and the EU Birds and the Habitats Directives, the Water Framework Directive and the Nitrates Directive. In general, NABU focuses on the conservation of nature. Following the NABU motto “For humans and nature”, especially the implementation of EU environmental law, is a major topic for NABU and its groups. Besides nature conservation, NABU also works on agriculture and fisheries, climate and energy, air quality, circular economy, and sustainable transport.
Communication Activities
Quarterly members magazine “Naturschutz heute”, monthly NABU-Newsletter on Environmental Policy, Policy papers and brochures on various topics covered by NABU, recent projects like the “Restoration of the river Havel” and various others, all over the country.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
NABU is an independent, democratic and grassroots organisation, and the German partner of BirdLife Europe/International (there is one BirdLife partner per country). BirdLife International has partners in all 27 EU Member States. In Europe, there are 41, plus Israel, so in total 42 member organisations. Together they represent 1.8 million members (natural persons). For a complete list of all conservation organisations in Europe see: http://www.birdlife.org/regional/europe/partnership.html NABU is a member of, inter alia: - BirdLife International (NABU is the German partner), www.birdlife.org - European Environmental Bureau (EEB), www.eeb.org - Climate Action Network (CAN), www.caneurope.org - Transport and Environment (T&E), www.transportenvironment.org - IUCN, www.iucn.org - Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR, umbrella organization of German environmental NGOs), www.dnr.de - Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung (FUE, network of German NGOs following the CBD-process), www.forum-ue.de
Organisation Members
https://www.nabu.de/wir-ueber-uns/index.html
Additional Information
NABU wird hauptsächlich durch Mitgliedsbeiträge (40,9% der Erträge) sowie aus Spenden (18,6% der Erträge), aus Unternehmenskooperationen/Sponsoring/Lizenzen (8,9% der Erträge) und Erbschaften (6,4% der Erträge) finanziert. Hinzu kommen öffentliche Zuschüsse (17,4%). Die weiteren kleineren Einnahmequellen können Sie unserem Jahresbericht entnehmen: https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/nabude/nabu/nabu-jahresbericht-2024.pdf