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Our handbook gives you know-how and guidance to make your Club or District climate-friendly & sustainable. It is available on Amazon as paperback or e-book – please search in Amazon for “Michael Koch Rotary”. All profits from the sale of the book will be donated to Rotary projects that reduce CO₂. The book will also be available in Spanish and German. Several districts have already decided to give 2 or 3 books to every Club in their district. If you need more than 10 books please send an email to info@becomesustainabe.org – you will only pay the price of printing & shipping & taxes where applicable.

Please use this link to request the tool and to get instructions.

This is a download file of one example CO₂ Calculation Report for RC München-Residenz, Germany.

We have created several presentations that you can use in your club. Alternatively, you can also ask one of our Ambassadors to present in your Club.

This is work in progress.

The list of videos on our YouTube channel to help you and your club:
How to calculate and compensate your club CO2 footprint
Join the Climate Solutions Taskforce

Together with our partners we make Rotary climate-friendly and sustainable!

We are a part of ESRAG initiative Every-Club-Climate-Friendly (ECCF).

“End Warming Now“ (EWN) has a similar approach to ours: They help Clubs to calculate the CO₂ footprint online during workshops with all club members and encourage to compensate. We have a common list of clubs that have calculated and compensated their CO2 footprint. Unfortunately the project was stopped in 2024.

End Plastic Soup is an international Rotary project started by the Rotary Clubs of Amsterdam that focuses on reducing the negative impact of plastic on our environment and especially reducing pollution of the oceans, the soil and the air we breathe. Reducing plastic pollution and avoiding the use of one way plastic also reduces CO₂ emissions.

Every Club a Climate Fresk was started by Barbara Zitzmann-Tengelmann (RC Passport Eco Planet, D 1900). Climate Fresk is a global NGO mobilizing people & organizations around climate change since 2018. The tool “Climate Fresk” offers high-quality climate education based on scientific evidence from IPCC reports that can be easily implemented. Over one million people have already laid this puzzle to understand the causes & impacts of climate change. The Climate Fresk workshop is collaborative, creative, science-based and a fun way to learn. In just three hours, participants work together to develop changes and outline transformation projects.

For the next workshop dates please send an Email to barbarazitz@icloud.com
 

Rotary´s climate forest in the Great Green Wall in Senegal – supports not only establishing and caring for a forest but also educating and empowering women, furthering entrepreneurship and economic development etc. The CO₂ effect will probably be 17.500 tons. You can compensate the emissions of your club with this project. Please find more information in this brochure or on the website www.greatgreenwall.org

The initiative Be A Hero Go Net Zero, started by Chris Davies (RC of Kimbleton Castle) encourages Rotarians to calculate & compensate their individual private footprint. Each participant will receive a certificate. Please join this initiative to also lead by example in your Club.

Regional Team “Asia & Oceania”: tbc
Regional Team “Africa and Europe”: Ingrid Steinhoff, RC de Castelldefels
Regional Team “Americas”: Marc McKenna, RC San Jose
Network Leader Ambassadors: Julia Schuster, RAC München
Network Leader Solution Support: Matthias Bretschneider, RC Mannheim-Kurpfalz
Network Leader Impact Analysis: Johannes Krause, RAC Berlin-Brandenburger Tor
Network Leader Communication: Claudia Jordan, ESRAG
Program Office: tbc
Taskforce Co-Leaders: Ludwig Kalthoff, Michael Koch

The main tasks of an Ambassador
•Contacts Clubs and follows up on Clubs
•Gives presentations in Clubs or at District events
•Inspires Clubs to act, use solutions & donate

In this file you find the detailed description of the role.
Until we have developed a database solution we use an Excel list to track the contacts to Clubs: This is an Excel template file to track your contacts to Clubs, please do not change the format of the file!

The main tasks of a Solution Supporter
•Enables Clubs to conduct successful projects
•Finds new suitable projects
•Creates project action guides & documents learnings

In this file you find the detailed role description for Solution Support.

The main tasks of an Impact Analyst
•Helps Clubs to estimate carbon hand- & footprint with online calc. tool
•Recommends Clubs how to offset and make improvements
•Supports making events & districts “carbon neutral” 
•Estimates the carbon impact of Rotary projects

In this file you find the detailed role description for Impact Analyst.
This is an example of a CO₂ Club Calculation report.
The descriptions how to calculate are on the page “CO2 Calculation” of this website.

The main tasks of Communication
•Publishes articles, posts etc. in Newsletters, Social Media etc.
•Connects to the ESRAG Comm. Team, Rotary Magazines, etc.
•Ensures the visibility of the Climate Solution Task Force

In this file you find the detailed role description for Communication.

The main tasks of the Program Office
•Takes care of IT, Website, Download Center etc. 
•Supports & monitors the progress, creates reports

You can contact the Program Office with an Email to info@BecomeSustainable.org