Greenpeace Sustainability Barometer
The Greenpeace Sustainability Barometer is a nationally representative survey of young people's sustainability awareness in Germany, conducted at roughly four-year intervals since 2011. The study series is led by Greenpeace Germany and academically delivered by a team at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) and Leuphana University Lüneburg.
The barometer examines how young people perceive sustainability, which issues they consider important, how they encounter sustainability in school, vocational training, and higher education — and what they expect from politics and society. The study understands sustainability awareness as the recognition that the natural planetary boundaries are being exceeded, combined with a perceived capacity to help bring about change.
The 2025 edition is the fourth wave in this series. In June 2025, the ARIS polling institute surveyed 1,506 young people between 15 and 24 years old across Germany. Academic responsibility lay with a team led by Daniel Fischer (Leuphana University Lüneburg) together with Matthias Barth, Sonja Geiger, and Lisa Sophie Walsleben (all Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development) and Marie Weiß (Leuphana University Lüneburg).
The full findings, background information, and freely available study materials are accessible on the Greenpeace project page.