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3.2 State of Baden-Wuerttemberg
The Sustainability Advisory Council is the advisory body of the state government on
all questions of sustainable development in Baden-Wuerttemberg. In total, 40 representatives from all areas of the economy, science and society, including the heads of
associations and institutions of the environment, agriculture, economy, trade unions,
local authorities, youth, women, integration, social affairs and churches are members of the Sustainability Advisory Council. Medium-sized and large companies are
represented on the Sustainability Advisory Council by their entrepreneurial personalities. The Youth Advisory Board of the Sustainability Strategy is also represented
by a member of the Sustainability Advisory Council. The task of the Sustainability
Advisory Council is to provide stimuli for the sustainable development of the country
and to draw up recommendations in this regard. The Sustainability Advisory Council was constituted on the 6th of October 2012 and meets twice a year since 2013.
In addition to the advisory board meetings, topic-specific working groups can be
convened under the leadership of the respective ministries, which deal with selected
topics more intensively in between the advisory board meetings. The following four
working groups currently exist: Education for Sustainable Development, Energy and
Climate, Goals and Indicators, Sustainable Mobility. The overall organisation of the
sustainability strategy of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg is in the responsibility
of the Head Office that is located at the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and
Energy Industry of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Head Office supports the state government strategically and conceptually in the implementation of the sustainability
strategy (Head Office Sustainability Strategy Baden-Wuerttemberg, n.d. a–f).
3.3 State of Hesse
The highest decision-making body in the Hesse sustainability strategy is the “Sustainability Conference”. In this Sustainability Advisory Council, 49 members from
politics, economics, science, administration and society discuss the focal topics and
direction of the strategy. In addition, goals for further work are defined in the plenum
and concrete activities such as the establishment of a steering committee for a new
priority topic, are decided upon. Since the first Sustainability Conference in October
2008, the committee has met at regular, mostly annual, intervals chaired by the Prime
Minister of Hesse and the Minister of the Environment of Hesse. In addition to the
Sustainability Conference, the central bodies of the sustainability architecture of the
State of Hesse consist of task force Goals and Indicators, steering committees and
an administrative office.
The task force consists of representatives of economic, environmental, consumer
and social associations as well as science and ministries and is headed by the President of the Hesse State Statistical Office. The main tasks of the task force are to
provide technical advice on objectives, indicators and target values, to discuss the
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3.2 State of Baden-Wuerttemberg
The Sustainability Advisory Council is the advisory body of the state government on
all questions of sustainable development in Baden-Wuerttemberg. In total, 40 representatives from all areas of the economy, science and society, including the heads of
associations and institutions of the environment, agriculture, economy, trade unions,
local authorities, youth, women, integration, social affairs and churches are members of the Sustainability Advisory Council. Medium-sized and large companies are
represented on the Sustainability Advisory Council by their entrepreneurial personalities. The Youth Advisory Board of the Sustainability Strategy is also represented
by a member of the Sustainability Advisory Council. The task of the Sustainability
Advisory Council is to provide stimuli for the sustainable development of the country
and to draw up recommendations in this regard. The Sustainability Advisory Council was constituted on the 6th of October 2012 and meets twice a year since 2013.
In addition to the advisory board meetings, topic-specific working groups can be
convened under the leadership of the respective ministries, which deal with selected
topics more intensively in between the advisory board meetings. The following four
working groups currently exist: Education for Sustainable Development, Energy and
Climate, Goals and Indicators, Sustainable Mobility. The overall organisation of the
sustainability strategy of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg is in the responsibility
of the Head Office that is located at the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and
Energy Industry of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Head Office supports the state government strategically and conceptually in the implementation of the sustainability
strategy (Head Office Sustainability Strategy Baden-Wuerttemberg, n.d. a–f).
3.3 State of Hesse
The highest decision-making body in the Hesse sustainability strategy is the “Sustainability Conference”. In this Sustainability Advisory Council, 49 members from
politics, economics, science, administration and society discuss the focal topics and
direction of the strategy. In addition, goals for further work are defined in the plenum
and concrete activities such as the establishment of a steering committee for a new
priority topic, are decided upon. Since the first Sustainability Conference in October
2008, the committee has met at regular, mostly annual, intervals chaired by the Prime
Minister of Hesse and the Minister of the Environment of Hesse. In addition to the
Sustainability Conference, the central bodies of the sustainability architecture of the
State of Hesse consist of task force Goals and Indicators, steering committees and
an administrative office.
The task force consists of representatives of economic, environmental, consumer
and social associations as well as science and ministries and is headed by the President of the Hesse State Statistical Office. The main tasks of the task force are to
provide technical advice on objectives, indicators and target values, to discuss the