Apr 01, 2011
Climate Protection Fellows in Dresden
On Sunday, 15 Climate Protection Fellows of the Humboldt Foundation will come on their two-week Germany journey to Dresden. The journey leads the scientists to the International Nature Protection Academy on Vilm Island, the Technische Universität Dresden and the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development in Dresden, the Federal Office for Environment Protection in Dessau and to the Institutes for the Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam. On Monday, 4th of April 2011, Dresden’s mayor Dirk Hilbert will welcome the fellows in the city hall.
The group comprises 15 fellows from Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China. They represent fields as diverse as foreign policy and international relations, geodesy, biotechnological methods, forestry, economics, public law, wastewater chemistry, ecology and climatology. They are hosted by universities, political organisations and associations. Two of the fellows – Mr. Gebrehiwot and Mr. Ziyang - work for one year at the Technische Universität Dresden.
Worku Zewdie Gebrehiwot (Ethiopian Forestry Research Centre) works in the group of Professor Elmar Csaplovics from the Institute for photogrammetry and remote sensing. In co-operation with his colleagues from Dresden, Gebrehiwot plans to assess the changes occurring in dryland areas in the northwest of Ethiopia for exploring their implications for sustainable development. He will learn how environmental assessment will be done for the sustainable utilization of the existing natural resources.
Dr. Ziyang Lou comes from Shanghai, China. During his stay in Germany he works in the group of Professor Bernd Bilitewski, Institute of Waste Management and Contaminated Sites Treatment, Technische Universität Dresden. Dr. Ziyang Lou’s work will focus on a comparative investigation on the climate impacts and benefits of different waste management activities in developing and developed countries. Shanghai in China and Dresden in Germany are chosen as city case examples. Working on this project will allow Dr. Lou to understand the overall relationship between waste and climate, and improve waste practices in his and other developing countries.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has granted International Climate Protection Fellowships for the first time in 2010. The program initiative for prospective leaders from non-European emerging economies and developing countries complements the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s existing programs with the aim of establishing and maintaining a network in which German and foreign experts work on a long-term basis to meet the challenges of climate change and its consequences. The fellowships are funded under the International Climate Protection Initiative by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
The Humboldt Foundation offers to arrange interviews with the fellows:
Regine Laroche,
Phone: +49 (0) 228 833-455
Informations for journalists:
Claudia Vojta,
Phone: 0351 463-32773,
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