“On the glacier – a view of nature’s changes.”
These are turbulent times for climate protection in business, with overall general economic and political conditions causing upheaval. For a long time, myclimate has succeeded in bucking this trend with modern management structures and internal cost-cutting measures. To continue offering high-quality climate protection and supporting companies on their path to net zero in the future, myclimate is taking further internal transformation steps. Under this transformation, the Zurich-based foundation is merging the existing country structures for Switzerland, Germany and Austria into one central business unit. This realignment will also impact personnel at the level of the existing shared management.
Foundation myclimate will continue to be managed on a collaborative basis by the two current management members Florian Goppel, Director of Carbon Markets, and Miryam Escher, Head of Finance and Organisation, until the end of October. On 1 November 2025, Miryam Escher will hand over her management position to Pascal Wieser and focus on her role as Head of Finance and Organisation. Pascal Wieser is a proven tourism specialist with many years’ experience in various management and leadership positions. He is currently a department head and lecturer at the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences. He is very familiar with myclimate, both as a former client and a number of years spent as a member of the myclimate Foundation Board. Pascal Wieser will step down from this position in November to concentrate on his management duties. The purpose of this change is to ensure continuity at myclimate and to provide new impetus.
With the loss of the country management positions under the planned centralisation, the myclimate Foundation Board – the foundation’s highest body which bears strategic responsibility – has decided to let go of its current country managers Kathrin Dellantonio (myclimate Switzerland) and Stefan Baumeister (myclimate Deutschland gGmbH).
Of the other existing members of the myclimate management team, Kai Rassmus Landwehr will retain his position of Director of Global Marketing and Communications. However, he will be leaving the top management level, along with Christof Fuchs, current Managing Director of myclimate Austria. Christof Fuchs will concentrate on coordinating sales activities in Austria. Business customers and external partners will experience no major changes in their collaboration with myclimate.
With the departure of Kathrin Dellantonio and Stefan Baumeister, myclimate is losing two experienced managers who have played a significant role in shaping the foundation throughout its 20-year history. Kathrin Dellantonio has held various management roles in myclimate.org 2 21/08/2025 communications and sales since 2004. She has seen myclimate grow from a student association of just a few years’ standing into an international climate protection organisation with a broad customer base and innovative services. She has built up large accounts over the years and represented myclimate in the media and at numerous events. Stefan Baumeister founded the subsidiary myclimate Deutschland gGmbH in 2009, and until recently he was personally advising major customers at the group level while managing an organisation with around 50 employees. Since October 2023, Dellantonio and Baumeister have also been members of the seven-strong myclimate management team, with joint responsibility for the economic success and overall impact of climate protection.
The myclimate Foundation Board would like to express its gratitude to both of them for their outstanding service and in particular for the many years they have spent shaping myclimate with great dedication, passion, expertise and excellence. The decision to let them go is purely a consequence of the structural reorganisation. The Board of Trustees wishes Kathrin Dellantonio and Stefan Baumeister all the best and every success in their next career steps.
“The path we aim to take together is the result of an intensive process of discussion. These decisions were difficult for us, not least because of the human component. At the same time, we are convinced that we have now created the right structures for our organisation to continue advancing climate protection with our services for effective, corporate climate action – with speed, with quality, and with the best interests of our customers and partners in mind,” says Urs Ziegler, Chairman of the myclimate Foundation Board, looking to the future with confidence.
