Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of Protect the Planet consists of the three co-founders of Protect the Planet. It advises and supervises the executive direction of the group and offers valuable impetus to our work.
Dorothea Sick-Thies
Founder and shareholder of Protect the Planet
Supervisory Board member of Sick AG
Founder of the Dorothea-Laura-Janina-Sick-Environmental Foundation
Carl-A. Fechner
Co-founder of Protect the Planet
Journalist and film maker (FechnerMedia)
Markus Gohr
Co-founder and CEO of Protect the Planet for many years
Board member of the Dorothea-Laura-Janina-Sick Environmental Foundation
What we do
Staying active
- Protect the Planet lobbies on a daily basis to make protection of the earth and preservation of a liveable world for current and future generations the most important social and global task of all.
- Protect the Planet advocates for peaceful and sustainable energy transformation and 100% climate-neutral lifestyle and business practices – right now!
- We network with NGOs, government, industry and civilian groups, for we can only combat climate change by working together.
- We inform and influence the formation of social, political and media opinion.
- We run our own campaigns and promote the climate change mitigation projects of our partners through education, expertise and tangible and intangible aids.
- Protect the Planet lobbies for more political resolve and responsibility for the environment and against the might of the fossil-fuel and nuclear energy industry.
- Protect the Planet is an independent, non-partisan group of people living by the values of human decency, justice, democracy and sustainability.
Current events

Seeds of Hope – Lichtblicke am Jahresende
Seeds of Hope ist ein kreativer Abend mit Impulsvorträgen, Mitmach-Aktionen und Hoffnungsmomenten. Am Montag, 08.12.2025 im oekom hub.
There is still too little known about the climate crisis and what we can do to avert it. To bridge this gap, our Climate Talks aim to provide information on many different aspects of climate change with a particular focus on specific things we can do ourselves.
Numerous experts join us in exploring the pressing questions of our time.
Missed an event? No problem, you can watch the recordings of the presentations in the archive.
Our topics:
climate LITIGATION
climate RENEWABLE
climate LOCAL
climate NETWORK
climate EDUCATION
Our vision:
to stop the
climate crisis
We help prevent the climate catastrophe and make our planet just and liveable.