The speaker of the conference

Christensen, Jan

Jan Christensen, born in 1958, is a trained banker and afterwards became pastor of a community in Lower Saxony. He has been pastor at the "Nordelbisches Missionszentrum" for development politics education since 1995. Key aspects of his work are debt relief for developing countries, fair trade, networking, the internet and renewable energies. He supervises overseas micro projects, and micro projects for partnership groups and schools, as well as the Climate Protection Compensation Fund for Sustainable Development (KAZE).

Drack, Andreas

Physicist, Dipl.-Ing., University of Linz

Since 1990: Upper Austrian Academy for the Environment and the Nature (organisation of the provincial government)

1991: membership of Upper Austria in the program Climate Alliance

1996: first provinical climate action plan; ongoing process

1997: representative of the nine provinces; member of the national climate change co-operation comittees

· Interministerial Committee to Coordinate Measures to Protect Global Climate (IMC Climate)
· Kyoto-Forum
· JI/ CDM-commission
· Task groups for special climate change issues

2000: Austria´s draft Climate Strategy 2010

2000: commissioner for climate change policy in Upper Austria

Renat Heuberger

Environmental Scientist M. Sc., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Born Dezember 18th 1976 in Zürich Education: 1989-1996: High School in Zurich 1993-1994: Exchange Year at Senior High School 47 in Jakarta, Indonesia. 1996-2003: Diploma (Master Degree) in Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

John O. Niles

John-O manages the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA). For more information click his name.

Rumberg, Michael

Michael Rumberg has an academic background in forestry and resource
economics and is head of the division CDM/JI at TUV SÜD Carbon
Management Service. In his position he is responsible for the
implementation of validation, verification and certifications processes
for greenhouse gas mitigation projects in the context of the Kyoto
Protocol. Before entering this company he worked as an expert for
forestry, environmental issues, climate change and sustainability within
the environmental branch of an insurance company.

Schneider, Lambert

Lambert Schneider was born in 1971 and works for the OEKO-Institut Berlin. To learn

more about Mr. Schneider click his photo.

 

 

 

 

Sutter, Christoph

Christoph Sutter combines scientific knowledge with hands-on experience in CDM projects. For more details see his Curriculum Vitae by clicking the photo.

 

 

 

Tippman, Robert

Robert Tippmann was born in Germany in 1969. He studied geography at the University of Bonn and wrote his final year project about the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. He specialises in environmental and development topics with emphasis on climate policy, the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol and emissions trading.
Robert Tippmann has worked for many international organisations and NGOs, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ).

Zander, Bernhard

Bernhard Zander is economist by profession and works with KfW since the early 80s in various functions. He looks back on many years of experience in Financial Cooperation with Developing Countries, mainly concentrating on Asia. In the recent years Bernhard Zander was dealing with commercial Export and Project Finance, responsible for power finance transactions in Asia as well as in Eastern Europe. In this capacity he also had joined KfW‘s in-house working group on climate change, where he took a leading role in developing the concept of the KfW Carbon Fund. As head of the Carbon Fund Project Team Bernhard Zander is now fully concentrating on the implementation of this concept, which he will present to you in the course of this day.