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EP.46 Dr. Brigitte Knopf, Secretary General of MCC

Apr 29, 2021
39:49

Our Head of Commissioned Projects in Central Europe, Hanns Koenig is joined by Dr. Brigitte Knopf, Secretary General of the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change). 

Brigitte is one of Germany’s leading experts on climate change and has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Council of Experts on Climate Change by the German Federal Government. The Council has recently published its first report assessing Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. 

Hanns and Brigitte discuss:

•MCC’s leading role in the climate change debate 
•The Council of Experts on Climate Change’s report findings and lessons learned
•The European Green Deal and Germany’s decarbonisation targets
•COVID-19 impact and emissions reduction during lockdown

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