Bert Metz
Bert Metz (born August 15, 1945 ) is a Dutch climatologist .
Life
Metz graduated from the University of Delft with a PhD in chemical technology. From 1976 to 1987 he worked for the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and then until 1992 at the embassy in Washington as a diplomat in the fields of health and the environment. In the meantime, he did a teaching job in Zaria ( Nigeria ) for two years .
In 1992 he returned to the ministry. As head of the department responsible for climate policy, he led the Dutch group in the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol . Since 1997 he has been working in the Dutch environmental agency “Milieu en Natuurplanbureau” as head of the working group on global warming and sustainability .
Act
In 1997 he was appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to work on the Third Assessment Report . He was one of the editors of the IPCC special report on the capture and storage of CO 2 (2005). In 2007, as Co-Chair of Working Group III “Mitigation of Climate Change”, he was again involved in a responsible position in the preparation of the fourth assessment report .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography on www.feem-web.it.
- ↑ https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_annex4-1.pdf
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SURNAME | Metz, Bert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch climatologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1945 |