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German
Environmental Award 2007:
German
Environmental Award goes again to WBGU member
Berlin, 26 September 2007. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director
of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, will receive the
German Environmental Award 2007. Again, a member of the German Advisory
Council on Global Chnage (WBGU) has won the topmost-endowed European environmental
award.
In 1998, Hartmut Grassl was the first WBGU member to receive the German
Environmental Award. The former head of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
in Hamburg was a WBGU member from 1992 to 1994 and again from 2000 to
2004. During those periods, he chaired the Council for several years.
In 2005, Joachim Luther, former head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar
Energy Systems in Freiburg, received the Award. Professor Luther was a
WBGU member from 2000 to 2004. In 2006 Ernst-Detlef Schulze received the
Award as well. Professor Schulze, former director of the Max Planck Institute
for Biogeochemistry in Jena, was an active WBGU member from 1997 to 2004.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is a WBGU member since its foundation in 1992.
From 1994-1996 he was Vice Chair, 1996-2000 Chair and since 2004 he is
Vice Chair again.
Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, will
present the German Environmental Award 2007 at a ceremony on 29 October
in Aachen.
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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