October 12, 2015
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, professor in CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) has been elected vice chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the the UN body tasked with assessing climate science.
Urge-Vorsatz was the top-ranking vice chair nominee from the Pan-European region, including Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. At the full UN plenary vote, she defeated Carlo Carraro, president emeritus of Venice University, 76 votes to 46.
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