Environmental and climate protection is one of three areas of focus that VfB Stuttgart are pursuing as part of the club’s sustainability strategy. This includes an annual calculation of the overall greenhouse gas balance, with the next calculation to take place at the start of 2024 for the year 2023.
In making a voluntary payment, VfB are supporting the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), with which the club has been affiliated since 2020, and its NABU climate fund. This fund supports nature conservation projects that have a quantifiable positive impact on the climate and biodiversity. At the moment, these projects are primarily located in Germany and in European Union member countries in the Baltic Sea region.
VfB’s support will be specifically used for nature-based climate protection via the waterlogging of agriculturally used peatland soils. Through waterlogging, the carbon stored in the peatlands over thousands of years is retained in the soil, stopping the emission of greenhouse gases. In this way, the NABU climate fund projects will help prevent the emission of one million tons of CO2 equivalents by 2050. By drawing on decades of experience with numerous successful national and international peatland protection projects, NABU has made it its mission to bring about genuine, nature-based climate protection with a scientifically verifiable reduction of greenhouse gas emissions on peatland soils.