5th Swiss Global Change Day

On 5 April 2004 ProClim- organized the fifth Swiss Global Change Day in Bern. The already established yearly meeting provides a platform where the Swiss global change research community can meet as a whole. About 220 participants took the opportunity to discuss current problems in a transdisciplinary manner with the invited provocaters Rudolf Burger from 'Der Bund', the director of IHDP Barbara Göbel and Hans-Peter Fricker, CEO WWF Switzerland. Well known experts presented new findings, highlights and challenges in the broad field of global environmental change research.