The conference organizers received more than 130 abstracts from all parts of the world. After successful peer review, all full scientific papers will be accessible online from 1 Nov 2010 on on this platform.
German Federal Environment Minister Roettgen takes patronage
Dr Norbert Roettgen, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the patron of the upcoming online climate conference CLIMATE 2010. Read more about the minister and his ministry's International Climate Initiative on the patronage or read the full press release.
Water quality - healthy people, healthy ecosystems: World Water Day 2010 on 22 March
March 22 is World Water Day - organized by CLIMATE 2010's partner UNEP and further supporting organizations. Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities is at the heart of this event. More about the World Water Day at www.worldwaterday2010.info.
All webpages of CLIMATE 2010 are hosted CO2-neutral by the CLIMATE 2010 partner STRATO.
CO2 emissions related to the use of participants´ personal computers during the online climate conference from 1-7 November 2010 will be compensated by our conference partner KlimaInvest. To guarantee a climate-neutral conference week, a wind energy park in Turkey is being financed according to the acknowleged WWF Gold Standard.
Organisation
CLIMATE 2010 / KLIMA 2010 is being organized by the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. The Centre undertakes fundamental research on life sciences issues as well as on aspects of climate, energy and sustainable development.
Coordination:
Prof. Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DL, DPhil, DLitt)
Scientific Assistance:
Natalie Fischer, Franziska Mannke, Kathrin Rath, Johanna Vogt