German Advisory Council on Global Change
Founded1992
Location
Websitewww.wbgu.de

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).

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

  • Healthy living on a healthy planet (2023)[5]
  • Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration (2020)[6]
  • Towards our Common Digital Future (2019)[7]
  • Humanity on the move: The transformative power of cities (2016)[8]
  • World in Transition – Governing the Marine Heritage (2013)[9]
  • World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability (2011)[10]
  • World in Transition – Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use (2008)[11]
  • World in Transition – Climate Change as a Security Risk (2007)[12]
  • World in Transition – Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy (2004)[13]
  • World in Transition – Towards Sustainable Energy Systems (2003)[14]
  • World in Transition – New Structures for Global Environmental Policy (2000)[15]
  • World in Transition – Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biosphere (1999)[16]
  • World in Transition – Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks (1998)[17]
  • World in Transition – Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources (1997)[18]
  • World in Transition – The Research Challenge (1996)[19]
  • World in Transition – Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions (1995)[20]
  • World in Transition – The Threat to Soils (1994)[21]
  • World in Transition – Basic Structure of Global People-Environment Interactions (1993)[22]

References

  1. ↑ "German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) — European Environment Agency". www.eea.europa.eu. Retrieved 6 February 2021. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Denmark (CC BY 2.5 DK) License.
  2. ↑ "WBGU: Policy Paper 8 2014 SDG". Archived from the original on 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  3. ↑ "Recommendations for the "UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  4. ↑ "Wbgu: Sr 2016 G20". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  5. ↑ Healthy living on a healthy planet
  6. ↑ Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration
  7. ↑ Flagship report 2019, „Towards our Common Digital Future“
  8. ↑ Flagship report 2016, „Humanity on the move: The transformative power of cities“
  9. ↑ Flagship report 2013 Archived 2013-07-29 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Governing the Marine Heritage.“
  10. ↑ Flagship report 2011, „World in Transition: A Social Contract for Sustainability.“
  11. ↑ Flagship report 2008, „World in Transition: Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use.“
  12. ↑ Flagship report 2007 Archived 2017-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Climate Change as a Security Risk.“
  13. ↑ Flagship report 2004 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy.“
  14. ↑ Flagship report 2003 Archived 2013-07-02 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems.“
  15. ↑ Flagship report 2000 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: New Structures for Global Environmental Policy.“
  16. ↑ Flagship report 1999 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biosphere.“
  17. ↑ Flagship report 1998 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks.“
  18. ↑ Flagship report 1997 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources.“
  19. ↑ Flagship report 1996 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: The Research Challenge.“
  20. ↑ Flagship report 1995 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions.“
  21. ↑ Flagship report 1994 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: The Threat to Soils.“
  22. ↑ Flagship report 1993 Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, „World in Transition: Basic Structure of Global People-Environment Interactions.“
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