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.
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
