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MEMO/07/92
Brussels, 6 March 2007
The Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change
The President of the European Commission has decided to establish an Advisory
Group on Energy and Climate Change, consisting of 11 personalities, all with very
high public profiles in the area of energy and climate change.
The Group's task will be to advise the President on the nexus of energy and climate
change, starting with a first meeting today – two days ahead of the Spring European
Council. The group will meet in future to discuss wider issues, such as the legislative
proposals stemming from the energy package adopted on 10 January 2007, and
future G8 meetings on energy and climate change.
The Group will be asked to look at different options facing Europe in terms of future
energy policy, based on the adopted energy package. The work will be carried out in
cooperation with the Commission's Bureau of European Policy Advisers and bring
valuable expertise from outside the Commission.
Annex: CVs of the members of the Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change
Prof. César Garcia Dopazo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
César M. Dopazo García es doctor ingeniero aeronáutico por la Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, y doctor ingeniero mecánico por la de Nueva York. Pertenece
a la Academia de Ingeniería desde su fundación. Es catedrático de Mecánica de
Fluidos del Centro Politécnico Superior de la Universidad de Zaragoza (centro mixto
Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC). Director del Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología
de Materiales y Fluidos de la UZ (1990- 1992 y 1997-1999).
Ha investigado y realizado desarrollo tecnológico en el campo de la combustión,
aerodinámica e hidrodinámica industrial. Autor de más de 60 trabajos en revistas
científicas internacionales, también ha trabajado como ingeniero y consultor de la
Asociación Española de la Industria Eléctrica (UNESA).
También ha sido investigador en el Brookhaven National Laboratory, y consultor de
United Technologies Corporation.
Coordinador del Programa Brite/Euram, así como del área de Ingeniería Mecánica y
Textil de la Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva.
Es representante del Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología en el Foro Global de la
Ciencia de la OCDE (Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo
Económicos).
Mr Nicolas Hulot, Fondation Nicolas Hulot, Paris, France
Photographe et journaliste
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Photographe d'Agence
Pour l'agence SIPA Presse, il parcourt le monde entier, de l'Afrique à
l'Australie, l'Antarctique et les Amériques. Cinq années de reportage dans des
pays parfois en guerre, dans des conditions difficiles : c'est là qu'il acquiert le
goût et même la passion du journalisme et de l'aventure.
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Journaliste et Producteur à France Inter
De 1978 à 1987, il est journaliste radio et innove dans les méthodes de
reportage ; pour lui le journaliste n'est pas seulement un témoin passif, il est
aussi un acteur d'aventures qu'il fait vivre en direct à ses auditeurs.
Auteur de différents ouvrages
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Pour un pacte écologique, Nicolas Hulot & le Comité de veille écologique,
Éditions Calmann-Levy.
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Graines de possibles - Regards croisés sur l'écologie, (entretiens avec Pierre
Rabhi), Éditions Calmann-Lévy.
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La Terre en partage - Éloge de la biodiversité, Éditions La Martinière.
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Le syndrome du Titanic, Éditions Calmann-Lévy.
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Combien de catastrophes avant d'agir ? Comité de veille écologique, Éditions
du Seuil.
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Pour que la Terre reste humaine, Robert Barbault, Dominique Bourg et Nicolas
Hulot interrogés par Jean-Louis Schlegel, Éditions du Seuil.
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A mes risques et plaisirs, Éditions Plon.
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Questions de nature, Éditions Plon.
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États d'âme, Éditions Lattès.
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Chasseurs de pôles (avec Jean-François Chaigneau), Éditions Albin Michel.
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Chemins de traverse, Éditions Lattès.
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Tabarly, 45 ans de défis, Éditions P.A.C.
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Ces enfants qui souffrent, Éditions P.A.C.
Responsable d’expéditions
De 1976 à 1993, il coordonne des expéditions au nombre desquelles :
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Traversée de la Manche en planche à voile,
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Tentative de record de traversée de l'Atlantique à la voile,
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Expédition au Pôle Nord magnétique,
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Descente du Zambèze à la pagaie,
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Expéditions au Pôle Nord géographique en ULM (1986 et 1987),
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1er aéronef monomoteur au Pôle Nord géographique,
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Tentative de traversée de l'Atlantique en ballon dirigeable à propulsion
musculaire.
Producteur et animateur de télévision
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Producteur et présentateur de l'émission "Ushuaïa, le magazine de
l'Extrême" sur TF1 de sept 1987 à juin 1995.
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De janvier 1996 à juin 1997, producteur et animateur de l'émission
"Opération Okavango" sur TF1.
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Depuis octobre 1998, producteur et animateur de l'émission "Ushuaïa
Nature" sur TF1.
Fondateur et président de la FNH
Amoureux de la nature depuis sa plus tendre enfance et en contact permanent
avec elle, le producteur et animateur de télévision prend conscience de sa
dégradation.
Pour permettre aux générations futures de profiter des mêmes émotions que lui a
données cette nature, Nicolas Hulot a voulu mettre sa notoriété au service d'une
cause d'intérêt général en créant en décembre 90, la Fondation Ushuaïa.
C’est ainsi que débute l’histoire de la Fondation, qui prendra le nom de Fondation
Nicolas Hulot pour la Nature et l'Homme en janvier 1995 et sera reconnue
d'utilité publique en août 1996. Sa vocation est de contribuer à la découverte de la
nature et à la protection de l'environnement par l'exploration, la recherche,
l'éducation et la communication.
Il s'agit d'un engagement éducatif, scientifique et culturel au service du
développement durable.
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Prof. Claudia Kemfert,
DIW (the German Institute for Economic Research), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert studied Economics at Bielefeld and Oldenburg University,
Germany. She finished her Ph.D. after a research stay at Stanford University in 1997
at Oldenburg University about ”Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Policy
Instruments”. 1998 she was engaged at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). From
January 1999 to April 2000 she worked as a group leader at IER (Institute of Energy
Economics and the Rational Use of Energy, Stuttgart University). From 2000 until
2004 she headed the research group SPEED at Oldenburg University, Germany
concentrating on the quantitative evaluation of economic impacts by environmental
and energy policies at national and international level.
Since April 2004 she is the director of the Department “Energy, Transport and
Environment” at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. She is
Professor of Economic at Humboldt University, Berlin. She headed several projects
on the investigation of energy and environmental policies at national, European and
international level. She is active within the EMF and EFIEA group of modelling and
the European Climate Forum ECF. She teaches micro-, macro- and environmental
economics at Oldenburg University, Germany, Siena University, Italy and Moscow
University at the New Economic School (NES), Russia. She works as an external
expert for the World Bank and the United Nations. Her research focus concentrates
on the evaluation of economic and environmental impacts of environmental and
energy policies at national and international level assessed by economic and
econometric modelling methods.
Mr Allan Larsson, Chairman of the Board, University of Lund, Sweden
Allan Larsson served as Finance Minister of Sweden between 1990 and 1991. He
has also served as Director General of the National Labour Market Board, as
Member of the Swedish Parliament, and as Member of the Board of Governors of
the Central Bank. During his time in the Parliament he was appointed Chairman of
the European Employment Initiative. He remained an MP until he was appointed
Director General in the European Commission in Brussels, responsible for
employment and social affairs. He was in charge of the preparation and
implementation of the European Employment Strategy. After retiring as Director
General he served as Chairman of the Board of Swedish Television and chairman of
the Transatlantic Dialogue on Broadcasting and Information Society. He was
member of the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development in Paris.
Mr. Larsson is currently an adviser to the Director General of the ILO in Geneva.
Since 2001 he is member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s High Level Panel
on Youth Employment. He is also a member of the ETUC Reflection Group on
Economic Policy and Employment in Brussels.
Mr. Larsson made a professional career in journalism and media, economic
research, national politics and in public administration in Sweden and in the
European Union. He worked for several national newspapers, as editor-in-chief of a
weekly magazine and news reporter at Swedish Television. In the 1970s he was
Head of the Research Department of the Swedish Metal Workers Union,
Undersecretary at the Ministry of Labour and consultant to the Swedish Steel
Company, SSAB.
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Mr Claude Mandil, International Energy Agency, Paris, France
Mr Mandil is currently serving a four-year term as Executive Director of the
International Energy Agency, based in Paris. This post climaxes his commitment to
international cooperation in energy affairs, in parallel with his career as a
distinguished French civil servant. While serving as Director General for Energy and
Raw Materials at the Ministry of Industry, Post and Telecommunications 1990 -1998,
Mr Mandil was instrumental in arranging for France to become a member of the IEA
in 1991 and served as the IEA Governing Board Chairman from 1997 to 1998.
During this time he also represented France at the Nuclear Safety Working Group of
the G7, 1991-1998.
Before joining the IEA in 2003, Mr Mandil was Chairman and CEO of the Institut
Français du Pétrole and, previous to that, Managing Director of Gaz de France.
Earlier posts have included Director General of Bureau of Mines and Geology
(BGRM) 1988-1990; CEO of the Institute for Industrial Development (IDI) 1983-1988;
and Technical Advisor in the French Prime Minister’s cabinet, 1981- 1982. Mr Mandil
is a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines.
Professor Carlo Rubbia, CERN (Nobel Prize Laureate Physics 1984),
Geneva, Switzerland
Italian physicist, who in 1984 shared with Simon van der Meer the Nobel Prize for
Physics for the discovery of the massive, short-lived subatomic W particle and Z
particle. These particles are the carriers of the so-called weak force involved in the
radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. Their existence strongly confirms the validity of
the electroweak theory, proposed in the 1970s, that the weak force and
electromagnetism are different manifestations of a single basic kind of physical
interaction.
Rubbia was educated at the Normal School of Pisa and the University of Pisa,
earning a doctorate from the latter in 1957. He taught there for two years before
moving to Columbia University as a research fellow. He joined the faculty of the
University of Rome in 1960 and was appointed senior physicist at the European
Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN; now the European Organization for Nuclear
Research), Geneva, in 1962. In 1970 he was appointed professor of physics at
Harvard University and thereafter divided his time between Harvard and CERN.
In 1973 a research group under Rubbia's direction provided one of the experimental
clues that led to the formulation of the electroweak theory by observing neutral weak
currents (weak interactions in which electrical charge is not transferred between the
particles involved). These interactions differ from those previously observed and are
direct analogues of electromagnetic interactions. The electroweak theory embodied
the idea that the weak force can be transmitted by any of three particles called
intermediate vector bosons. Furthermore, it indicated that these particles (W+, W-,
and Z0) should have masses nearly 100 times that of the proton.
Rubbia then proposed that the large synchrotron at CERN be modified so that
beams of accelerated protons and antiprotons could be made to collide head-on,
releasing energies great enough for the weak bosons to materialize. In 1983
experiments with the colliding-beam apparatus gave proof that the W and Z particles
are indeed produced and have properties that agree with the theoretical predictions.
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Further analysis of the results obtained in 1983 led Rubbia to conclude that in some
decays of the W+ particle, the first firm evidence for the sixth quark, called top, had
been found. The discovery of this quark confirmed an earlier prediction that three
pairs of these particles should exist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gary Taubes, Novel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment (1986),
describes how the Nobel Prize was won by Rubbia and also treats his subsequent
research. Peter Watkins, Story of the W and Z (1986); and Peter Galison, How
Experiments End (1987), recount in detail Rubbia's most famous experiments and
describe the team of people that worked under his direction.
Prof.
Hans
Joachim
Schellnhuber,
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
CMG,
Born in 1950 in Ortenburg (Germany). Training in physics and mathematics with a
scholarship for the exceptionally gifted at the University of Regensburg. Doctorate in
Theoretical Physics in 1980. Various periods of research abroad, in particular at
several institutions of the University of California system (USA). Habilitation (German
qualification for professorial status) in 1985, then Heisenberg Fellowship. 1989 Full
Professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Sciences
(ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg, later Director of the ICBM.
1991 Founding Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK);
since 1993 Director of PIK and Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of
Potsdam. 2001-2005 additional engagement as Research Director of the Tyndall
Centre for Climate Change Research and Professor at the Environmental Sciences
School of the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK). Distinguished Science
Advisor for the Tyndall Centre since 2005.
2002 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award; 2004 CBE (Commander of the
Order of the British Empire) awarded by Queen Elizabeth II. Elected Member of the
Max Planck Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Leibniz-Sozietät, the
Geological Society of London, and the International Research Society Sigma Xi.
Ambassador for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Visiting
Professor in Physics, Honorary Member of the Christ Church College High Table,
and Senior James Martin Fellow at Oxford University.
Active service on some dozen national and international panels for scientific
strategies and policy advice on environment & development matters. Inter alia, ViceChair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Chair of the
Global Change Advisory Group for the 6th Framework Programme of the European
Commission and Member of the corresponding panel for FP7, Member of the
Scientific Board of the Dahlem Conferences, Member of the Committee on Scientific
Planning and Review of the International Council for Science (ICSU), Member of the
Board of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Chief Government Advisor on
climate and related issues for the German G8-EU twin presidency in 2007.
Member of the Editorial Boards of the scientific journals ” “Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences” Climatic Change”, “Climate Policy”, “Gaia”,
“Integrated Assessment”, and “Systems Analysis, Modelling, Simulation”.
About 190 articles and about 40 books in the fields of condensed matter physics,
complex systems dynamics, climate change research, Earth System analysis, and
sustainability science.
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Sir Nicholas Stern, HM Treasury, London, United Kingdom
Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic.
He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000
to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United
Kingdom.
After attending Latymer Upper School, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in
mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his Doctor of Philosophy in economics
at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was a lecturer at Cambridge University from 1970 to
1977, and served as a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick from
1978 to 1987. He taught from 1986 to 1993 at the London School of Economics,
becoming the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics. From 1994 until 1999 he was
the Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President of the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development. His research focused on economic
development and growth, and he also wrote books on Kenya and the Green
Revolution in India.
After his time working for the World Bank, Stern was recruited by Chancellor of the
Exchequer Gordon Brown to work for the British government where, in 2003, he
became second permanent secretary at H.M. Treasury, initially with responsibility for
public finances, and head of the Government Economic Service. Having also been
Director of Policy and Research for the Commission for Africa, he was, in July 2005,
appointed to conduct reviews on the economics of climate change and also of
development, which led to the publication of the Stern Review. He ceased to be a
second permanent secretary at the Treasury though he retains the rank; the review
team he heads is based in the Cabinet Office. In December 2006 it was announced
that he would be returning to the London School of Economics in June 2007 as a
professor, and head of LSE's Indian Observatory and Asia Research Centre.
Mr Peter Sutherland, KCMG, BP plc, London, United Kingdom
Mr Sutherland is Chairman of BP plc (1997 – current). He is also Chairman of
Goldman Sachs International (1995 – current). He is currently UN Special
Representative for Migration and Development.
Of Irish nationality he was born on 25 April 1946 and was educated at Gonzaga
College, University College Dublin and the King’s Inns. Mr. Sutherland graduated in
Civil Law. He was also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United
States of America. From 1969 to 1981 he practised at the Bar. He is a Bencher of
the Middle Temple, London and is an Honorary Bencher of the King’s Inns.
In addition to his Chairmanships listed above he also serves on the Board of
Directors of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and is associated with the
following organisations:
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Trilateral Commission (Europe) Chairman
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World Economic Forum, Foundation Board Member
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Chief Executive’s Council of International Advisers, Hong Kong, Member
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The Federal Trust, President

European Policy Centre Advisory Council, President
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European Round Table of Industrialists, Vice-Chairman
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The Royal Irish Academy, Member
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Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Industrial Development
Organisation
Prior to his current position, Mr Sutherland served as:
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Attorney General of Ireland (1981-1984)
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EC Commissioner responsible for Competition Policy (1985-1989)
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Chairman of Allied Irish Banks (1989-1993)
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Director General of The World Trade Organisation, formerly GATT (19931995)
His awards include an honorary Knighthood (UK 2004), the Gold Medal of the
European Parliament (1988), the First European Law Prize (Paris 1988), The David
Rockefeller International Leadership Award (1998), the Grand Cross of Civil Merit
(Spain 1989), the Grand Cross of King Leopold II (Belgium 1989), the New Zealand
Commemorative Medal (1990), Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (France 1993)
Commandeur du Wissam (Morocco 1994) the Order of Rio Branco (Brazil 1996) and
the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal 1998). He was also
presented with the Robert Schuman Medal for his work for European Integration.
Furthermore, he received the European Person of the Year Award (1988), the Irish
People of the Year Award (1989), the Consumer for World Trade Annual Award
(1994) for distinguished service, and the Dean’s Medal (1996) from the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania.
He has received fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and
America. He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the London Business School in
recognition of his contribution to business and trade (1997).
His publications include the book ‘Premier Janvier 1993 ce qui va changer en
Europe’ (1989) and numerous articles in law journals. He Chaired the Committee
that reported to the EEC Commission on the functioning of the Internal Market after
1992 (The Sutherland Report).
Mr Sutherland is married and has three children. His leisure interests include
reading and sport.
Professor Viriato Soromenho-Marques, Universidade de Lisboa,
Lisbon, Portugal
Viriato Soromenho-Marques (1957) teaches Political Philosophy and Philosophy of
History in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, where he is Full
Professor and was the Executive Chair of the Department (1999-2002). Currently he
coordinates a post-graduation course on Philosophy of Nature and Environment and
teaches History of Ideas and Environment Public policies at the graduation course
on European Studies at the same University.
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Since 1978 he has been engaged in the civic environmental movement in Portugal
and Europe. He was Chairman of Quercus (1992-1995), and representative of the
Portuguese environmental NGOs in the Economic and Social Council (1992-1996).
In May 1998 he was elected member of the new created National Council on
Environment and Sustainable Development. He is member of the international
Society for Ecological Economics, of the American Political Science Association, and
is the Portuguese correspondent of the German organization Ecologic. He served as
Vice-Chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory
Councils (EEAC) network during three two-year terms (2001-2006). In the first
semester of 2004 he was invited by the Portuguese Prime-Minister to be one of the
six authors of the Portuguese National Strategy for Sustainable Development. In
1997 he received from the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic the degree of
«Grande Oficial da Ordem do Mérito Civil» and in 2006 the degree of «Grande
Oficial da Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique». In November 2006 he was invited by
the Gulbenkian Foundation to become the scientific coordinator of the Gulbenkian
Environment Programme.
He was the representative of public opinion in the Press Council (1985-1987). He is
a regular contributor to some Portuguese mass media, particularly, the Jornal de
Letras, Visão, Rádio Renascença, the public television network (RTP) and the
Portuguese and Brazilian Sections of the BBC.
He wrote over two hundred and fifty works on Philosophy, Environment and
International Relations matters. He was speaker in six hundred conferences in
Portugal and nineteen other countries. Among other books, he was the author of the
following titles: Tragic Thought and Nihilism in Nietzsche (1984); Europe: The Risk of
the Future (1985); Europe: Maze or Common House (1993); Back to Earth:
Ecological Awareness and Environmental Policy (1994); Policy, Politics and History
in Kant (1995); The Era of Citizenship: From Machiavelli to Jefferson (1996);
Environment and the Future: The Portuguese Case Study (1996); Our Fragile
Future: The Challenges of Global Environmental Crisis (1998); Reason and
Progress in Kant's Philosophy (1998); Ecology and Ideology (1999), The Federal
Revolution. Political Philosophy and Constitutional Debate in the American Founding
Era (2002), The Federalist, from Hamilton, Madison and Jay (translation in cooperation with João Duarte) (2003), The Challenge of Water Policy in 21st Century.
Between Conflict and Cooperation, coordination (2003).The Art of Winning,
introduction to two military writings from Frederick the Great (2005), Portuguese
National Strategy for Sustainable Development: 2005-2015, in co-operation with 5
other authors (2005), Metamorphoses. Between Breakdown and Sustainable
Development (2005), Citizenship and European Construction, coordination (2005).
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Michael Zammit Cutajar, Ambassador on Climate Change, Geneva,
Switzerland
A citizen of Malta, born in 1940, Michael Zammit Cutajar has devoted most of his
career to work in and around the United Nations on international cooperation for
development and environment. He headed the secretariat of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change from its launch in 1991 until early 2002,
holding the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Since then, he has continued to participate in the international dialogue among
governments - and between them and the business community - on climate change
and the development of the carbon market. He chairs an independent advisory
group for the World Bank’s Community Development Carbon Fund, whose
objective is to promote investment in carbon-saving development projects in poor
communities in developing countries.
Mr. Zammit Cutajar advises the Government of Malta on environmental issues and
represents it as ambassador in international negotiations on climate change. In this
capacity, he chaired in 2006 the Ad Hoc Working Group on further commitments for
Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
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