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Decision of the Federal Cabinet
New members
of German Advisory Council on Global Change appointed
Berlin,
3 December 2008. The German Advisory Council on Global Change has
been appointed again by the Federal Cabinet for a period of four years.
The new members of the Council are:
Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director of the Institute for
Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Institute for Advanced Study
of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder, Director General of the
Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt-University, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development
Institute, Bonn, and Professor for Political Science, University Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Professor of Energy Economics,
Vienna University and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
Laxenburg
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the
Oceans, Potsdam University and head of the Climate System department at
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE, Director of
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and visiting professor
at Oxford University
Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke, Professor of Public Law, especially
German, European and International Environmental Law, Administrative Law
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmid, President of the Institute
for Solar Energy Technology, Kassel and Professor at Kassel University
Prof. Dr. Renate Schubert, Professor for economics at
the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology and director of the Institute
for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
New secretary general
Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schulz-Baldes, long-serving Secretary-General, has
gone into retirement. His successor is Dr. Inge Paulini,
who previously was Head of Department at the German Federal Environment
Agency (UBA).
Assessment of global environmental changes and early warning
The German federal government set up WBGU as an independent, scientific
advisory body in 1992 in the run-up to the Rio Earth Summit. The Council's
principal tasks are to:
- analyse
global environment and development problems and report on these,
- review
and evaluate national and international research in the field of global
change,
- provide
early warning of new issue areas,
- identify
gaps in research and provide impulses,
- monitor
and assess national and international policies for the achievement of
sustainable development,
- elaborate
recommendations for action and research and
- raise
public awareness and heighten the media profile of global change issues.
WBGU publishes flagship reports every two years, making its own choice
of focal theme. In addition, the German government commissions the Council
to prepare special reports and policy papers.
Please direct your queries to:
WBGU Secretariat
Reichpietschufer 60-62, 8th Floor
D-10785 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49 30 263948 12
Fax +49 30 263948 50
Email: wbgu@wbgu.de
All press releases and reports can be downloaded
at http://www.wbgu.de.
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