The following text elaborates on the necessities of a future sustainability and climate protection policy which goes beyond solution-finding due to the current crisis in Ukraine. In a first step, the interrelationships of the Ukraine crisis and global and national sustainability policies are analysed. Policy recommendations are developed on basis of the analysis in a second step. These recommendations call for ambitious sustainability policy as key for increased security, stability and resilience of all societies. In this context, in particular the responsibility of the industrialised states and especially of Germany and the EU are addressed.