Press Release01.11.2024, Berlin

Members of German Advisory Council on Global Change appointed

The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has been appointed by the Federal Cabinet for its next term, starting from today and until 31.10.2028.

Members are:

Aletta Bonn, Head of the Department of Biodiversity and Humans at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, and Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of Jena within the German Centre of integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).

Jörg E. Drewes, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Head of the Chair and Research Centre for Urban Water Management at the Technical University of Munich.

Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn and Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn.

Kai Maaz, Managing Director of the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF) and Professor of Sociology specialising in educational systems and society at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

Karen Pittel, Director of the Ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich

Hans-Otto Pörtner, Professor and senior advisor at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.

Sabine Schlacke, Professor of Public Law, with a focus on administrative and environmental law at the University of Greifswald and Managing Director of the Institute for Energy, Environmental and Maritime Law (IfEUS). 

Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Augsburg, Director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Helmholtz Munich and Vice-Director of the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg

Joscha Wullweber, Heisenberg Professor of Politics/Political Economy, Transformation and Sustainability at the Faculty of Economics and Society at Witten/Herdecke University and Director of the International Center for Sustainable and Just Transformation [tra:ce].

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