About us

Since 2012 PROJECT CLIMATE supports responsible companies and institutions that want to make a credible contribution to climate protection. Our goal is for companies to stop emitting CO₂ from the middle of the century.

Our focus is on sustainable mobility. Here we have expertise and a lot of experience. Our clients benefit from both in our consulting projects. Carbon offsetting also focuses on mobility – because it makes particular sense here as a bridging solution. However, carbon offsetting can also make sense in other areas. Where exactly and where not, we define this together with our clients.

We see ourselves as a “social business”, a new type of company that addresses social problems – such as climate change – and whose goal is to create social benefits. Nevertheless, unlike privately-run, church or state aid organisations, social entrepreneurs are obliged to work profitably. Like any other company, we have employees, balance sheets and a desire to make a profit.

Management

Jan-Moritz Jericke

In April 2016 Jan-Moritz Jericke joined the PROJECT CLIMATE team as Managing Director. Before, he worked at atmosfair in Berlin for four years, where he learned a lot about sustainable mobility and the beauties and pitfalls of CO₂ offsetting.

His conviction: A CO₂-free economy in the middle of the century is feasible. But you have to start the transition now. And whoever starts first wins in the end.

Jan-Moritz Jericke studied International Affairs with a focus on sustainability in St. Gallen, Vancouver and Paris. In the mornings you can usually meet him on his bicycle when he is on his way to work, passing a traffic jam in Stuttgart.

Felix von Zwehl

Felix von Zwehl founded PROJECT CLIMATE in 2012. His aim is to show companies methods to make their mobility more sustainable.
He is a registered attorney in Munich. After studying business and law, he worked in international law firms in Munich and New York. He loves to escape the daily routine while climbing and during ski tours.

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Berz – also known as the “Master of Disaster” – has been head of Geo Risks Research at Munich Re for many years. Prof. Dr. Berz is an expert on natural disasters and climate research. He raises political and social awareness of the need to take natural disasters and climate change seriously and to act accordingly.

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Gege is chairman and founding member of the Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewusstes Management B.A.U.M. e.V., the largest association of this kind in Europe with around 500 member companies. In addition to many publications on the subject of sustainability, he has also published a climate survey of the 30 Dax companies. As an adviser he is active in numerous international committees, such as the World Future Council or as an advisor to the Dutch government… and now also at PROJECT CLIMATE.

Fritz Lietsch is editor-in-chief of the magazine “forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften” and managing director and founder of ALTOP Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft. He is the author of numerous books and magazine articles on sustainability and is co-organizer of the international conference SusCon.

Prof. Dr. Bolko von Oetinger is co-founder of Boston Consulting Group in Germany, where he was Senior Vice President for many years and head of the BCG Strategy Institute. As a member of the board of trustees of the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics and the Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation, he is committed to sustainable business practices in companies and shows why it is economically beneficial for companies to operate sustainably.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker is one of the most important visionaries of concepts for sustainable development. He has been Co-President of the Club of Rome since 2012. Among other things, he was Director at the UN Center for Science and Technology in New York and President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag and during this term of office he was chairman of the environmental committee.