HEUKING supports Stuttgart in climate protection: A legally sound and unbureaucratic funding framework for innovative climate protection projects

The HEUKING team led by Dr. Marc Philip Greitens is assisting the state capital of Stuttgart in making the allocation of funding from the Stuttgart Climate Innovation Fund easily accessible and legally sound.

Through the Stuttgart Climate Innovation Fund, the state capital of Stuttgart is mobilizing the innovative power of the city's community in the fight against climate change. The fund supports projects by companies, startups, associations, and initiatives that put new ideas for local climate protection into practice. In doing so, the city relies on an impact-oriented funding principle: funding is disbursed only when agreed-upon project goals are actually achieved. In this way, the fund combines ambitious climate protection with the effective and responsible use of public funds.

HEUKING provided comprehensive advice to the state capital of Stuttgart on the redesign of the grant notices and ancillary provisions for the fund's funding lines. Thus, the firm succeeded in translating complex requirements under grant, state aid, and public procurement law into clear rules that are understandable even to non-lawyers—ensuring legal certainty for the city and minimizing bureaucracy for grant recipients.

The state capital of Stuttgart is participating in this year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) with its own delegation. The conference will take place from November 9 to 20, 2026, in Antalya, Turkey.

There, the city will present the Stuttgart Climate Innovation Fund to an international audience. In doing so, it will demonstrate how municipal climate innovation from Stuttgart can contribute to the global implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Counsel to the State Capital of Stuttgart
HEUKING:
Dr. Marc Philip Greitens, B.A., LL.B. (Grant and Subsidy Law, Hamburg)
Liv Hagmann, LL.B. (Grant and Subsidy Law, Hamburg)

Contact:
Dr. Marc Philip Greitens, B.A., LL.B.