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Revision as of 05:16, 22 October 2009
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The European Climate Forum (ECF) is a platform for joint studies and science-based stakeholder dialogues on climatic change. ECF brings together representatives of different parties concerned with the climate problem.
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Activities
The core activity of the ECF is to define and carry out joint studies; these provide arguments for long-term climate mitigation and adaptation policies leading ultimately towards a sustainable development path. The groups ECF engages with systematically are from:
• energy industries and major energy users,
• companies engaged in renewables,
• insurance and finance enterprises,
• policy-makers,
• environmental NGOs,
• and scientists.
The European Climate Forum was founded in September 2001 by seven research institutes (founding members). Prof. Carlo Jaeger and Prof. Klaus Hasselmann led the initiative. ECF is administered and regulated through the Board of Directors and the Council. The Board of Directors consists of a minimum of four and a maximum of seven members, including the Chairperson, the Vice Chairperson, the Managing Director and the Treasurer. Members are elected for a period of two years. Re-election is possible.
Board of Directors
Currently the Board of Directors is composed by:
• Carlo C. Jaeger (Chairman, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
• Klaus Hasselmann (Vice-Chairman, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
• Antonella Battaglini (Managing Director & Treasurer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
• Peter Hoeppe (Munich Re)
• Antonio Navarra (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici)
Council
The Council consists of seven members maximum. The members are usually elected for a period of three years.
Currently the Members of the Council are:
• Antonio Ruiz de Elvira (Chairman, University of Alcala)
• Martin Welp (Vice-Chairman, Fachhochschule Eberswalde)
• Ola M. Johannessen (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen)
• Sebastian Gallehr (e5)
• Hartmut Grassl
• Markus Wolf
The European Climate Forum is a non-profit organization. Regular membership of the forum is open to any institution or group that accepts the ECF rules and pays a one time membership fee.
Climate Games
Together with the Munich Re, the ECF launched a climate game: Winds of Change, which is a board game for 2-4 persons.[1] The game illustrates the climate challenge in a playful way and it can be used in team learning, schools, focus groups, etc. It includes several features, which are hotly debated in climate policy-making. These include among others: investments in R&D, technological learning and innovation, de-carbonizing the economy, ocean uptake of CO2, the 2 degrees limit, and insurance against extreme weather events.
References
- ^ Energiekonferenz: http://www.energiekonferenz.de/woc_en.htm
