The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations is awarding an Intergenerational Justice Award every two years with a total sum of 10.000 €. The FRFG is thus furthering scientific papers on an interdisciplinary scope on selected topics within the main theme of intergenerational justice. The main question of the fifth Intergenerational Justice Award is how a topic oriented cooperation of parties can be furthered and how the reflexes to oppose can be contained. Especially in the exceptionally complicated German system of decision making with its federal elements and its proportional representation political processes often reach agreements representing the least common denominator or even bad compromises. This was recently illustrated in the abandonment of environmental protection aims. For more information please refer to the awards section .