German Advisory Council on Global Change
The German Advisory Council on Global Change is an independent, scientific advisory body to the German Federal Government, established in 1992 in the run-up to the Rio Earth Summit.
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.
Flagship reports
- Water in a Heated World
- Healthy living on a healthy planet
- Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration
- Towards our Common Digital Future
- Humanity on the move: The transformative power of cities
- World in Transition – Governing the Marine Heritage
- World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability
- World in Transition – Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use
- World in Transition – Climate Change as a Security Risk
- World in Transition – Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy
- World in Transition – Towards Sustainable Energy Systems
- World in Transition – New Structures for Global Environmental Policy
- World in Transition – Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biosphere
- World in Transition – Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks
- World in Transition – Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources
- World in Transition – The Research Challenge
- World in Transition – Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions
- World in Transition – The Threat to Soils
- World in Transition – Basic Structure of Global People-Environment Interactions