German Advisory Council on Global Change appointed again
The new members of the Council are:
- Prof. Dr. Nina Buchmann, professor of Grassland Science, Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- Prof. Dr. Astrid Epiney, professor for international law, european law and swiss public law, director at the Institute for European Law, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)
- Dr. Rainer Grießhammer, member of the management board of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Freiburg and director of the future heritage foundation (Stiftung Zukunftserbe)
- Prof. Dr. Margareta Kulessa, professor of International Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz
- Dr. Dirk Messner, director of the German Development Institute, Bonn
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf, professor of physics of the oceans, Potsdam University and leader of the group ocean modelling at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, research director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich (UK) and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmid, president of the Insitute for Solar Energy Technology and professor at the University of Kassel, Head of the department for efficient energy conversion
- Prof. Dr. Renate Schubert, professor for economics at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology and head of the Center for Economic Research, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Reports and policy papers for the Federal Government
Today, the Council published its new report „Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy“. Recent reports are dealing with global energy policy (2003) and with the reform of environmental governance (2000). In 2003 the Council released a special report focussing on the Kyoto protocol´s further development beyond 2012. Policypapers have been prepared for the International Conference for Renewable Energies (2004) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002).