Climate AdvisersEarlier this month german government announced, it will be assisted during its presidencies of the EU and G8 by two climate change experts, Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Lars Göran Josefsson the president of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall.

Schellnhuber is member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), co-editor of ‘Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change‘ and director of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Currently german government negotiates reduction of CO2 emissions in the NAP2 the european commission changed, but accepted. The commission would accept an updated NAP2 until end of year 2006.