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German Advisory Council on Global Change 'WBGU' Secretariat at the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) P.O. Box 12 01 61 27515 Bremerhaven, FRG Fax.: ++49 471-4831-218 Ph: ++49-471 - 4831-349 http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/wbgu/ e-mail: wbgu@awi-bremerhaven.de P R E S S R E L E A S E 96/3e German Advisory Council on Global Change appointed again Physicist Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber new chairman / Second period up to June 2000 / Next Annual Report dealing with water Bonn, September 20, 1996. Today the constitutional meeting for the second term of office of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has taken place in Bonn. The physicist Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Potsdam was elected chairman of the 12 members of the council. The lawyer Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott, Düsseldorf was elected deputy chairman. The next annual report will have his focus on water. In spring 1992 the Advisory Council on Global Change has been established by the German Government as an independent advisory body on the background of growing awareness that environmental protection is the basis for human development and that urgent action needed at the international level. The Council compiles annual reports about current trends of global change and the resulting social and economic impacts. Furthermore, the reports are taking into account the international agreements discussed at the Rio summit (1992) and the AGENDA 21. Moreover, the reports give recommendations for environmental policy and environmental research. Up to date the Council has published four annual reports in the series "World in Transition": Basic Structure of Global People-Environment Interactions (1993), The Threat to Soils (1994), Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions (1995) and The Research Challenge (1996). Members of the German Advisory Council are: Prof. Dr. F.O. Beese, agronomist, Göttingen Prof. Dr. H. Behrendt, physician, Hamburg

Prof. Dr. K. Fraedrich, meteorologist, Hamburg Prof. Dr. P. Klemmer, economist, Essen Prof. Dr. J. Kokott, lawyer, Düsseldorf Prof. Dr. L. Kruse-Graumann, psychologist, Hagen Prof. Dr. O. Renn, sociologist, Stuttgart Prof. Dr. H.-J. Schellnhuber, physicist, Potsdam Prof. Dr. E.-D. Schulze, botanist, Bayreuth Prof. Dr. M. Tilzer, limnologist, Bremerhaven Prof. Dr. P. Velsinger, economist Dortmund Prof. Dr. H. Zimmermann, economist, Marburg Director of the secretariat is Prof. Dr. M. Schulz-Baldes, biologist, Bremerhaven. Prof. Dr. Friedrich O. Beese Born 1943. Study of rural economy in Göttingen. Graduation 1972, soil sciences. Habilitation 1986, soil ecology and forest nutrition. 1973-1987 scientific assistant at the Institute for Soil Science and Institute for Soil Science and Forest Nutrition in Göttingen. 1978/79 DFG/Fulbright-beneficiary in the USA. 1987-1994 director of the Institute for Soil Ecology in Munich, since 1994 director of the Institute for Soil Science and Forest Nutrition in Göttingen. Speaker of the Forschungsverbund Agrarökosysteme München (FAM). Speaker of the Forschungszentrum Waldökosysteme (FZW) Göttingen. Member of scientific advisory councils of the Environmental Research Centre Leipzig-Halle (UFZ), the Research Centre Jülich (KFA), the Munich Air Pollution Research Network. 1990-1994 coordinator of the German activities of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Project (GCTE). Since 1992 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof. Dr. Heidrun Behrendt Born 1945. Study of medical sciences at the Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg. Graduation 1971. Habilitation at the medical faculty of RWTH Aachen 1978. 1979-1994 director at the Medical Institute for Environmental Health at University of Düsseldorf. Since 1994 director of the Department for Exerpimental Dermatology/Allergology at the university hospital Eppendorf. 1993-1996 member of the Scientific Advisory Board on Health under the auspices of the Federal Ministry for of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF). Member of numerous national and international fellowships. Since 1996 member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors (SRU) and the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich Born 1945. Studies in Bonn, Cologne, Berlin. Graduation 1970. 1970/71 Post doc at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University. Habilitation 1973. 1975 associate professor at the University of Bonn. 1979 visiting professor at the Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. 1982/83 participation in the Distinguished Overseas Scientist Program at the Australian Numerical Meteorology Research

Centre in Melbourne. 1985 visiting scientist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle. Professor for meteorology at the Free University Berlin 1975 to 1992. 1986-1988 senior principle research scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1992 professor for meteorology at University of Hamburg. Visiting professor at School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales in Sydney since 1994. Max Planck Award 1994. Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Weather Service (DWD) since 1993. 1994-1996 Vice President of a working group on nonlinear dynamics within the scope of the European Geophysical Society. Since 1996 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof. Dr. Paul Klemmer Born 1935. Study of economy at University of Freiburg. Graduation 1966. Habilitation 1970. Professor for economical research, especially economic policy at University of Bochum since 1970. Since 1989 president of the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research in Essen. 1974 member of the Academy for Regional Research and Regional Planning. Since 1979 chairman of the executive board of the Ruhr-Forschungsinstitut für Innovations- und Strukturpolitik. 1980 to 1987 member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors (SRU). 1986 to 1991 chairman of the working group "Kosten der Umweltverschmutzung/Nutzen des Umweltschutzes" of the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety (BMU). Since 1987 member of the advisory council on Raumforschung under the auspices of the Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development (BMBau). Since 1992 member of the Enquete Commission "Protecting the Earth s Atmosphere". Since 1992 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Since 1994 ordinary professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 1978 Federal Distinguished Service Cross for scientific work on the subject of economic Umwelt- und Raumforschung. Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott, LL.M. (Am.Univ.), S.J.D. (Harvard) Born 1957. Study of law at the universities of Bonn, Geneva, American University, Washington, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Graduations Heidelberg 1985 and Harvard 1990. Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society for scientific trainees. Habilitation Heidelberg 1992. 1984 to 1993 Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. Professor for comparative public law at the universities Augsburg and Heidelberg. Visiting Professor at University of California Berkeley. Since 1994 professorship for german and international comparative public law, European law and law of the nations. Since 1995 deputy arbitrator at OECD court of justice. Since 1996 member and deputy chairman of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof. Dr. Lenelis Kruse-Graumann Born 1942. Study of psychology at University of Heidelberg. 1966 psychology diploma. Graduation 1972. Postdoc in New York 1973/74. Habilitation in Heidelberg 1976. Heisenberg scholarship of the German Science Foundation (DFG) 1978-1985. Visiting professor at Maison des Sciences de l Homme Paris and University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Since 1985 professor for psychology (specialist in ecological psychology) at the University of Hagen.

Member of the German National Committee for UNESCO of the "Man and the Biosphere" program (MAB) since 1986. Ordinary professor at the University of Heidelberg since 1988. Member of the German Science Council since 1991. Member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) since 1992. Deputy Frauenbeauftragte at the University of Hagen since 1992. Member of the sub-committee "Social Sciences, Peace and Human Rights" of the German Commission for UNESCO since 1994 (deputy chairman since 1996). Speaker of the professional group "Environmental Psychology" of the German Society for Psychology since 1994. Member of the German Commission for UNESCO since 1996. Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn Born 1951. Study of political economy, sociology and journalism at University of Cologne and the Institute for Journalism in Rodenkirchen. Member of executive board of the Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung Baden-Württemberg (responsible for "Technology, Society and Environmental Economy"). Since 1993 professorship for Sociology II (Environment and Techniksoziologie") at University of Stuttgart. 1986 to 1992 professor of "Environment, Technology and Society" at Clark University in Worcester (USA). 1989-1990 director of the Centre for Technology, Environment and Development at Clark University. 1990-1991 director of the interdisciplinary institute for Research on Peace and Conflict at Clark University. 1992-1993 visiting professor at the department for environmental natural sciences of the Eidgenössische Hochschule in Zürich (ETH). Member of the Umweltbeirat of the Evangelische Landeskirche Württemberg and the Landesforschungsbeirat of Baden- Württemberg. Since 1996 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU). Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber Born 1950. Study of physics and mathematics with an upgrading of highly accelerated students at the University of Regensburg. Graduation 1980. Research activities abroad, e.g. within the University of California-System (USA). Habilitation 1985. Heisenberg-Professor. 1989 professor of the Institute for Chemistry and Biology for Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg. Director of ICBM. 1991 inaugural director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Since 1993 director of PIK and professor for theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam. Member of the Climate Advisory Council of the Federal Government, the Advisory Council of the German program in the framework of IDNDR and the International Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute. Since 1992 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU, 1994-96 deputy chairman, since 1996 chairman). Since 1996 member of the Global Change National Committee of the German Science Foundation (DFG). Director of an international scientific consortium for the development of new strategies for the negotiation of the Rio climate convention. Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze Born 1941. Study of forestry and botany at the universities Göttingen, Munich and Los Angeles (UCLA). Graduation 1969. Habilitation 1973. 1967-1974 scientific assistant, in the following HS2-professor in Würzburg. 1975 HS3-professor at the TU Munich. Since 1975 professorship for plant ecology at University of Bayreuth. Since 1985 member of the research council Waldschäden (FBW), project group Bavaria for the research on the impact of

environmental toxic substances (PBWU) and the Senatsausschuß of the DFG for environmental research (SAUF). Member of the scientific steering committee of the IGBP core projects BAHC and GCTE. Member of the scientific steering committee of the research programs DIVERSITAS and TERI. Lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Global Biodiversity Assessment. Advisor of the German Science Foundation (DFG). Since 1996 member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof. Dr. Max Tilzer Born 1939. Study of biology at the University of Vienna. Graduation 1967. Habilitation (limnology) at the University of Innsbruck 1973. Research activities at the University of California Davis 1974-76. Professor at the TU Berlin 1976, professorship for limnology at the University of Freiburg 1978, later University of Konstanz (here director of the Limnological Institute). 1986-92 speaker of the special research project "Cycling of Matter in Lake Constance". Several expeditions to Antarctica with research vessel "Polarstern". Since 1992 director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. Since 1996 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof. Dr. Paul Velsinger Born 1939. Study of economics and mathematics at the University of Münster. Graduation 1969. 1969/70 research professorship for "regional politics" (special research project 26) at the University of Münster. 1970-1972 lectureship for operations research at University of Bielefeld. 1972 professorial chair for political economy, especially regional economics at the University of Dortmund. 1978 to 1990 chancelor of the University of Dortmund. Since 1978 member of the Research Centre Environmental Technology in Dortmund. Since 1978 member (since 1990 managing member) of the executive board of the Research Association for Industrial Physiology and Protective Labour in Dortmund. Since 1994 member of the Sociological Study Group of the Archbishopric at Paderborn. Since 1992 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU). Prof. Dr. Horst Zimmermann Born 1943. Study of economics in Cologne, Munich and at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Graduation 1963. Habilitation 1968. Several research activities in USA. Professorship for political economics, especially public finance at the University of Marburg. August Lösch Award for Regionalwissenschaften. 1977-1982 member of the advisory council of the Federal Research Institute for Regional Geography and Regional Planning (BfLR). 1981-1990 member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors (SRU, deputy chairman 1985-1990). Since 1986 member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU, deputy chairman 1992-1994, chairman 1994-1996). The Director Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schulz-Baldes

Born 1944. Study of biology and chemistry at the universities of Freiburg, Kiel and Hamburg. Graduation 1973. 1974-1975 DFG research scholarship at the Scripps-Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA. Habilitation at the University of Bremen 1987. 1975-1985 Institute for Marine Research, Bremerhaven. Several expeditions on research vessels "Polarstern", "Meteor" etc.. Since 1993 associate professor for marine biology at the University of Bremen. 1986-1992 secretary general of the EUREKA umbrella project EUROMAR. Since 1992 director of the Scientific Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Photographs can be obtained through the Secretariat.