May 13 2013
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer Global Climate Change Speaker
Economist & Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Global Climate Change Speaker
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer is professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin and Co-Chair of the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC which won the Nobel Peace Price in 2007. He is deputy-director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and is currently leading Research Domain III – Sustainable Solutions at PIK, which focuses on the research on the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation.
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