DAV section Tölz sets up climate protection team - fight against greenhouse gas

Created: 09/20/2022, 20:37

By: Daniel Wegscheider

New climate protection team in Bad Tölz: (from left) Benedikt Hirschmann (DAV chairman of the Tölz section, Anke Ellmann (office manager), Christiane Danner (climate protection coordinator), Tom Hesslinger (courses and tours), Wilma Schenk (mountain bike) and climate protection coordinator Kilian voice. © DAV - Section Tölz

Bad Tölz – The German Alpine Club (DAV) wants to be climate-neutral by 2030.

A climate protection team was set up for this purpose.

The motto for getting there is “avoid before reduce before compensate”.

The DAV section in Tölz also takes on this task as part of a newly founded climate protection team, which from now on is dedicated to the topics of nature conservation, climate neutrality and sustainability.

At the general meeting of the DAV last fall in Friedrichshafen, around 360 delegates from 220 sections sent a clear message: the world's largest mountaineering association wants to be climate-neutral by 2030.

The delegates voted in favor with 87 percent of the votes cast.

The DAV wants to become climate-neutral with all 357 sections

The goal applies to the federal association as well as to the 357 sections.

Following the decision, DAV President Josef Klenner said: “Together we are taking a massive step towards the future in the German Alpine Club.

With this step, we bear the responsibility that belongs to us as part of the mountain sports community and as a major force in civil society.”

A core element of the climate protection concept is emissions accounting: According to the DAV report, the federal association and the sections recorded their CO2 emissions as early as 2022.

From now on, a balance sheet that takes place every two years determines the budget for the climate protection measures: "For every tonne of CO2 emissions, 90 euros flow into a climate protection pot in the respective section of the federal association."

DAV section Tölz campaigns for climate protection

Associated with this, one of the main tasks of the Tölz section and all DAV sections in Germany is to record the emissions that are caused by all group activities, courses, tours and excursions as precisely as possible.

In terms of mobility, the arrival and departure, the chosen means of transport and the distance are recorded, as are the type and number of overnight stays and meals.

This process is managed in the DAV section Tölz by the climate protection coordinators Christiane Danner and Kilian voice and supported by the climate protection team.

The climate protection team was already active as part of the "Climate Spring Oberland" in May of this year with a climate hike on the Schafreiter in the Karwendel and a geocaching family tour on the Sonntratn and is planning further activities such as a tree planting campaign in autumn.

Alpine club section Tölz

The Tölz Alpine Club section dates back to 1881 and is now the largest club in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district with over 8,000 members.

The office on Tölzer Marktstraße has a library of mountain literature, maps and climbing guides.

Courses with different levels of difficulty are offered in the areas of mountain biking, climbing, hiking, alpine, family and youth.