10.06.2020 - The German government has reappointed Wolfgang Lucht to its German Advisory Council on the Environment. Lucht is co-head of the Earth System Analysis Department at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and has been a member of the Council for the past four years. Only a few days ago, the seven-member Council submitted a report of several hundred pages - which is only published every four years - to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Svenja Schulze. The committee of professors repeatedly takes a critical stance on current issues and thus advises the government.
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In addition to Lucht, who was appointed for the area of sustainability and earth system analysis, the members of the Environmental Council are:
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Claudia Hornberg, University of Bielefeld,
for the area of health sciences/ toxicology/ noise/ environmental justice -
Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin,
for the area of Economics/ Climate Protection/ Energy/ Transport
As new members were appointed:
- Christina Dornack, TU Dresden, for the area of waste and cycle management
- Wolfgang Köck, University of Leipzig/ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ Leipzig), for the area of environmental and planning law
- Josef Settele, University of Halle-Wittenberg/ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ Halle), for the field of nature conservation/ ecology/ biodiversity/ land use
- Annette Elisabeth Töller, FernUniversität Hagen, for German and European environmental policy
Weblink to the press release of the Federal Ministry for the Environment (only available in german):
https://www.bmu.de/pressemitteilung/bundesumweltministerin-svenja-schulze-beruft-neuen-sachverstaendigenrat-fuer-umweltfragen/
Weblink to the SRU's Website:
https://www.umweltrat.de/EN/home/home_node.html