German Advisory Council on Global Change explained

German Advisory Council on Global Change
Founded Date:	1992
Location:	Berlin, Deutschland
Homepage:	www.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]

External links

• Website of WBGU

Notes and References

1. Web site: German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) — European Environment Agency . www.eea.europa.eu . 6 February 2021 . en. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Denmark (CC BY 2.5 DK) License.
2. Web site: WBGU: Policy Paper 8 2014 SDG . 2014-06-27 . 2015-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150302002249/http://www.wbgu.de/en/policypaper/policy-paper-8-2014-sdg/ . dead .
3. Web site: Recommendations for the “UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III” . 2017-01-18 . 2017-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170118223838/http://www.wbgu.de/fileadmin/templates/dateien/veroeffentlichungen/weitere/statement_habitat_2016.pdf . dead .
4. Web site: Wbgu: Sr 2016 G20 . 2017-01-16 . 2016-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161221095140/http://www.wbgu.de/en/special-reports/sr-2016-g20/ . dead .
5. https://www.wbgu.de/en/publications/publication/healthyliving Healthy living on a healthy planet
6. https://www.wbgu.de/en/publications/publication/landshift Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration
7. http://www.wbgu.de/fr2019 Flagship report 2019
8. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2016-urbanization/ Flagship report 2016
9. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2013-oceans/ Flagship report 2013
10. https://archive.today/20110725035156/http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_jg2011_en/ Flagship report 2011
11. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2008-bioenergy/ Flagship report 2008
12. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2007-security/ Flagship report 2007
13. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2004-poverty/ Flagship report 2004
14. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2003-energy/ Flagship report 2003
15. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2000-institutions/ Flagship report 2000
16. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1999-biosphere/ Flagship report 1999
17. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1998-global-risks/ Flagship report 1998
18. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1997-water/ Flagship report 1997
19. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1996-research/ Flagship report 1996
20. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1995-global-policy/ Flagship report 1995
21. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1994-soils/ Flagship report 1994
22. http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-1993-people-environment/ Flagship report 1993