German Advisory Council on Global Change
German independent scientific advisory body
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The German Advisory Council on Global Change (German: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen, WBGU) is an independent, scientific advisory body to the German Federal Government, established in 1992 in the run-up to the Rio Earth Summit (UNCED).
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| Founded | 1992 |
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| Website | www.wbgu.de |
The Council's principal tasks are to:
- analyse global environment and development problems and report on these,
- review and evaluate national and international research in the field of global change,
- provide early warning of new issue areas,
- identify gaps in research and to initiate new research,
- monitor and assess national and international policies for the achievement of sustainable development,
- elaborate recommendations for action and research and
- raise public awareness and heighten the media profile of global change issues.[1]
The WBGU also comments on current events, such as the United Nations Climate Change conferences (e.g., in Paris 2015), the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015),[2] the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Habitat III[3] (2016) or Germany's G20 presidency in 2017.[4] Meinhard Schulz-Baldes (1993–2008), Inge Paulini (2008–2017) and Maja Göpel (2017–2020) served as WBGU Secretaries-General.
Flagship reports
- Water in a Heated World (2024)[5]
- Healthy living on a healthy planet (2023)[6]
- Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration (2020)[7]
- Towards our Common Digital Future (2019)[8]
- Humanity on the move: The transformative power of cities (2016)[9]
- World in Transition – Governing the Marine Heritage (2013)[10]
- World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability (2011)[11]
- World in Transition – Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use (2008)[12]
- World in Transition – Climate Change as a Security Risk (2007)[13]
- World in Transition – Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy (2004)[14]
- World in Transition – Towards Sustainable Energy Systems (2003)[15]
- World in Transition – New Structures for Global Environmental Policy (2000)[16]
- World in Transition – Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biosphere (1999)[17]
- World in Transition – Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks (1998)[18]
- World in Transition – Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources (1997)[19]
- World in Transition – The Research Challenge (1996)[20]
- World in Transition – Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions (1995)[21]
- World in Transition – The Threat to Soils (1994)[22]
- World in Transition – Basic Structure of Global People-Environment Interactions (1993)[23]
