About ForTomorrow

We make it possible for everyone to take part in true climate positivity

ForTomorrow is a non-profit, for purpose organization. We are a small number of permanent staff and a growing and changing group of skilled volunteers. That way, we keep costs low, so we can spend more than 85% of our revenue on carbon offsets.

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    Ruth von Heusinger

    Founder & Managing Director

    Ruth, a graduate physicist, worked in the field of renewable energies and emissions trading at Statkraft and gained experience in the voluntary carbon market at atmosfair. However, she wanted to make it possible to offset carbon emissions with a direct effect in Europe. That’s why she founded the non-profit organisation ForTomorrow in December 2019.

  • Scarlett Faißt

    People & Operations

    Scarlett oversees Customer Care, People & Culture, Operations and Team Assistance at ForTomorrow. After studying psychology, she initially worked as a freelancer and then helped build up the sustainable company Wildling Shoes. Here she scaled customer service and gained experience in the areas of leadership, people & culture, diversity and operations.

  • Koos Looijesteijn

    Chief Design Officer

    Koos first design job was at an energy management startup. After that, he was freelancing for companies small and big (like Apple) and worked as a design lead at BCG Digital Ventures. Now at ForTomorrow, he does everything design and web development.

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    Christopher Schulz

    Team Lead Marketing & Communications

    Chris is in charge of marketing at ForTomorrow. After studying communication science in Vienna, he gained experience as a copywriter & conceptionist for a leading creative agency in Berlin. He created communication campaigns for companies and organizations like ADAC, Klarna or Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg.

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    Georg Lukas

    Forest Ecosystem Management

    Georg takes care of the reforestation areas and forest-related topics. He completed his studies at the University for Sustainable Development with a bachelor’s thesis on forest carbon markets in the EU. Georg is dedicated to a future with close-to-nature, species- and structure-rich forests.

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    Joana Ciraci

    Marketing Specialist

    Joana is part of the marketing & communications team and responsible in particular for social media. After completing her literary studies she seized the opportunity to gain a professional foothold in the nonprofit sector back in 2015. Most recently, she worked as a content creator for an international animal welfare organization and is currently studying Sustainable Development Cooperation as a part-time master’s program at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau.

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    Anton Karsten

    Web developer

    Anton Karsten is a freelance Fullstack Software Developer with a focus on frontend technologies like Angular and Flutter. He is volunteering at ForTomorrow to help develop the website. Originally he comes from the Netherlands, but after living in Germany for almost 10 years, he is now living in France.

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    Tobias Grabmeier

    Advisor

    Tobias built the 50ZERO offsetting service. He now supports ForTomorrow’s continuation of that brand with product strategy and development.

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    Andreas Kästner

    Project Management

    Andreas is an industrial engineer who worked in various functions in the energy industry. At his consultancy agency viacero, he now supports companies with their sustainability transformations. At ForTomorrow, he is responsible for greenhouse gas accounting.

Advisory board

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    Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino

    Scientific Advisor

    Grischa Perino is Professor for Environmental Economics at the University of Hamburg, where he heads the working group Dynamic of Climate Governance at the Climate, Climate Change and Society Cluster of Excellence. He is an expert on EU Emissions Trading. He consults ForTomorrow as a volunteer on the effectiveness of carbon offset in the context of the EU Emissions Trading System.

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    Thomas Schmidt

    Strategic Advisor

    Thomas Schmidt, CEO of Haniel, supports ForTomorrow as an advisor for long-term strategy. Thomas is pursuing a groundbreaking sustainability approach with Haniel already. There, entrepreneurial activities must ensure the future prospects for many generations to come.

Our partners

  • The German Forest Protection Association is a legally recog­nized nature conservation association and our partner for tree planting.

  • Fairnergy offers e-car owners the opportunity to use their GHG quota for environmental protection and donate it directly to ForTomorrow.

  • The Impact Factory’s acceler­ator program promotes Ger­man social enterprises and has been supporting ForTomorrow since its founding phase.

  • The Dr. Erich Lang Foundation promotes sustainable busi­nesses and supports ForTomorrow in building a successful team.

  • 50ZERO offers CO2 offsetting via EU emission rights trading. ForTomorrow manages the emission rights for 50ZERO.

  • Good24 lets customers donate insurance broker commissions to sustainable companies like ForTomorrow.

  • Wattx’s Climony app makes it easy to understand and reduce your CO2 footprint and offset it via projects like ForTomorrow.

Business networks

We must act faster than before—the clock is ticking

Climate change is already happening. Global temperatures have risen by 1°C. If we continue to emit as much as we do today, it will be incredibly difficult for the world to become carbon neutral in 7 years in order to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (IPCC recommendation). At 1.5°C our ecosystem could remain largely in balance, but we are running out of time.

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The future without carbon neutrality

If we don’t manage to reduce our carbon emissions, the earth will warm up more than 4°C by 2100. Such world would be difficult to recognize:

  • Cities like London, New York and Mumbai will be flooded
  • Entire ecosystems will be lost; half of animal and plant species and coral reefs will be completely extinct
  • There will be record-breaking summer temperatures of over 50°C in Europe
  • We will see an increase in dangerous tipping points; large parts of the world will become uninhabitable

What can we do?

ForTomorrow was founded in 2019 as a non-profit organization. We want to enable everyone to live a carbon neutral lifestyle. Together, we can transform Europe into the first carbon neutral continent. Each EU citizen emits an average of 9 tonnes of CO2 per year. We help you reduce your carbon emission to less than 1 ton in the long-term. Meanwhile we offset the rest for you. If we manage to reduce the worldwide carbon emissions year by year, we will have a bit more time than the 7 years mentioned earlier. We can then safely reach the 1.5°C goal with carbon neutrality in 2040. But we must act faster.

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Stay in touch!

No matter if you want to support us or have further questions, just mail to info@fortomorrow.eu or call us at +49 (0)30 5200 5287.