An Overview of the German Climate Change Program
This page finalized January 31, 2007.
Chair's Air Pollution Seminar Series
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Monday, February
5, 2007
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sierra Hearing Room, Second Floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento
This
event is being Webcast, click here to view.
Webcast viewers: Please send your
questions during broadcast to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov.
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An Overview of the
German Climate Change Program
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Axel Friedrich, Ph.D.
Environment, Transport, and Noise Division
German Environmental Protection Agency
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| German policies and scientific initiatives in mitigating
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions will be reviewed in concert with other climate change directives
within the European Union. A new measure will retrofit existing vehicles, which along with other directives, is
designed to meet a proposed overall reduction of 40 percent by year 2020. |
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Axel Friedrich, Ph.D., currently heads the Environment, Transport, and Noise Division
of the German Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Friedrich was the moving force behind the initial adaptation
by Germany, and later Europe, of stringent standards for vehicles and fuels. Dr. Friedrich's unselfish willingness
to share his knowledge and expertise with the international community has helped reduce air pollution not only
in Europe but also the Americas and Asia. Dr. Friedrich has also been a moving force in helping to guide the European
Union toward its adaptation and implementation of aggressive programs to address greenhouse gas emissions and global
climate change. As the global threats posed by air pollution became more evident, he helped to launch World Bank
programs to reduce air pollution in Asia and Latin America. In Europe, he has partnered with non-environmental
organizations to confront air pollution under the rubric of sustainability. Dr. Friedrich was awarded the 2006
Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award because of his passionate interest in confronting air pollution and climate change
on a global scale with comprehensive and multi-faceted approaches.
Dr. Friedrich is a Technical Chemist from the Technical University of Berlin. He has been with the Umweltbundesamt
(UBA), the Federal Environment Agency of Germany for more than 27 years. Since 1994 he has been head of the division
"Environment and Transport, Noise." This division deals with all transport related to environmental issues,
including air pollution, noise and planning. Between 1993 and 1994 Dr. Friedrich was head of the section "Marine
Environmental Protection" of the Agency. From 1990 to 1992 he was the head of the section "Refineries,
Fuels and Reduction of Organic Compounds." Dr. Friedrich started his career after a job in the chemical industry
in the Umweltbundesamt in the section "Reduction of Air Pollution from Traffic." Special interests include
Sustainable Transport, Climate Gas Reduction, non-regulated emissions, and influence of fuels on emissions. |
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For more information on this
Seminar please contact Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or send email to: pmathews@arb.ca.gov
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