Actors in Climate Research and Climate Politics - N to Z
NKGCF
National Committee for Global Change Research
Nationales Komitee für Global Change Forschung NKGCF
Website: www.nkgcf.org/index.php
The members of the National Committee for Global Change Research decisively participate in the coordination of German global change research. Furthermore, the NKGCF represents the interface between national funding bodies and international GEC programs.
DKK and NKGCF cooperate closely.
North German Climate Office
Internetseite: www.norddeutsches-klimabuero.de
www.klimabuero.de/index_en.html
The Norddeutsche Klimabüro is situated at the Helmholtz Centre in Geesthacht. It focuses on changes in storms, storm surges, ocean waves, and coastal climate. For the different regional aspects of climate change, science-based information on the different regions is needed. The North German Climate Office provides such information from climate research specifically for Northern Germany.
DKK and the German Regional Climate Offices cooperate closely.
Öko-Institut
Institute for Applied Ecology
Institut für angewandte Ökologie
Website: www.oeko.de
Oeko-Institut is a leading European research and consultancy institute working for a sustainable future. Founded in 1977, the institute develops principles and strategies for realising the vision of sustainable development globally, nationally and locally. Based on value-oriented research, the institute provides consultancy for decision-makers in politics, industry and civil society.
PIK
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Website: www.pik-potsdam.de/frontpage?set_language=en
PIK addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. Researchers from the natural and social sciences work together to generate interdisciplinary insights and to provide society with sound information for decision making. The main methodologies are systems and scenarios analysis, quantitative and qualitative modeling, computer simulation and data integration.
PIK is a member of the DKK.
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South German Climate Office
Website: www.sueddeutsches-klimabuero.de
The Süddeutsches Klimabüro is situated at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It offers expertise on regional climate modeling and extreme weather events as heavy precipitation and flooding. The South German Climate Office is an interface between research and society to provide information on climate issues in a competent and intelligible from.
DKK and the German Regional Climate Offices cooperate closely.
TROPOS
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e. V.
Website: www.tropos.de/eng/index.html
It is the mission of the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research to improve the understanding and prediction of tropospheric multiphase systems, which is ale a core function of climate research. The working range of the TROPOS includes the examination of the state and properties of the troposphere, especially in the anthropogenically polluted regions. Important research questions include physical and chemical aerosols and cloud processes and atmospheric effects of aerosols and clouds, which are answered by coordinated laboratory and field experiments with the associated modeling.
IfT is a member of the DKK.
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UFZ
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung
Website: www.ufz.de/index.php?en=11382
The UFZ has particular expertise in the analysis of complex environmental systems. We focus on the influence of climate change on biodiversity, the hydrological balance, as well as on socio-economic systems, the interaction of the atmosphere with the land surface and the development of adaptation measures.
UFZ is a member of the DKK.
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UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Internetseite: http://unfccc.int/2860.php
Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -the UNFCCC- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. A number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change process, particularly the COP, the subsidiary bodies and their Bureau.
The UNFCCC secretariat is based in Bonn, Germany.
Wuppertal Institute
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH
Website: www.wupperinst.org
The Wuppertal Institute undertakes research and develops models, strategies and instruments for transitions to a sustainable development at local, national and international level. Sustainability research at the Wuppertal Institute focuses on the resources, climate and energy related challenges and their relation to economy and society. Special emphasis is put on analysing and stimulating innovations that decouple economic growth and wealth from natural resource use.
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
Weltorganisation für Meteorologie
Website: www.wmo.int
The Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate and the resulting distribution of water resources are the topics of the WMO.
The WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations with 189 states and territories as Members, each of which maintain their own Meteorological Service. The purposes of WMO are among others to facilitate international co-operation in the establishment of station networks for making meteorological observations and to support the setting up and operation of central meteorological services. Each Member State nominates a "Permanent Representative" with WMO, who is generally the Director of the National Meteorological Service.
The WMO, with headquarters in Geneva was founded 1947 by a convention of 42 states which met in Washington. The WMO was to succeed the nongovernmental International Meteorological Organization (IMO) established in Vienna in 1873.
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