EU climate advisory board elects chair

The Advisory Board will give independent scientific advice and produce reports on EU policies and their coherence with the Climate Law and the EU's commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Board members include Maarten van Aalst, University of Twente, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen, Constantinos Cartalis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Suraje Dessai, University of Leeds, Laura Díaz Anadón, University of Cambridge, Vera Eory, Scotland’s Rural College, Edgar Hertwich, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Lena Kitzing, Technical University of Denmark, Elena López-Gunn, ICATALIST, Lars J. Nilsson, Lund University, Keywan Riahi, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Joeri Rogelj, Grantham Institute of the Imperial College London, Nicolaas Schrijver, Leiden University, Jean-Francois Soussana, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, and of course the newly elected chair Ottmar Edenhofer.