Prof. Dr. Gunnar Lischeid of ZALF becomes member of the Brandenburg Scientific Climate Council

The new Scientific Climate Council of the State of Brandenburg was constituted on the 15th of July 2024 under the chairmanship of Prof. Hermann Lotze-Campen of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Prof. Dr. Gunnar Lischeid of the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) is one of the 12 appointed members. The main task of the advisory board is to scientifically monitor the progress of the Brandenburg Climate Plan and to prepare a report on the state's greenhouse gas emissions and climate targets every two years.

Axel Vogel, Brandenburg's Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection, emphasized the importance of the new body in achieving Brandenburg's climate goals by 2045. "The Scientific Advisory Council on Climate will play a central role in monitoring climate policy and will make valuable suggestions for the further development of the climate plan," Vogel said at the inaugural meeting.

Prof. Dr. Gunnar Lischeid heads the research platform "Data Analysis & Simulation" and the working group "Dimensionality Estimation and Reduction" at ZALF. His expertise in the fields of hydrology and biogeochemistry will help to ensure that the measures of the Climate Plan are based on a solid scientific foundation.

The Climate Advisory Board will be active until the end of 2027 and will be supported by a newly established office at PIK. Its work will ensure that the 103 measures in the Climate Plan - ranging from energy and mobility to agriculture and peatland protection - are effectively implemented. "We have succeeded in recruiting top-class scientists for the advisory board, who will support Brandenburg's climate policy with well-founded opinions and recommendations," Axel Vogel concluded.

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