The European Academy for Environmental Affairs (also known as European Academy of Environmental Affairs) is a private organization which cosponsored the 1995 conference that produced the
Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change is a statement made in 1995, seeking to refute the fact that there is a scientific consensus on the global warming issue.
It was issued in an updated form in 1997 and revised again in 2005, claiming ...
, a
SEPP-initiated document in which some scientists argue against
global warming
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
theories. Founder and president of the Academy was the late Prof. Dr. hc.
Helmut Metzner
Helmut Metzner (15 September 1925, Osnabrück, Germany – 20 September 1999, Tübingen, Germany) was a plant physiologist, Professor of Biochemical Plant Physiology at University of Tübingen, the founder of the European Academy of Environmenta ...
(1925-1999), who was professor for chemical
plant physiology. Metzner was accused of having connections to the
Studienzentrum Weikersheim, a right-wing think-tank in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
.
In 1993 the Academy also held a conference in
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...
under the title "Globale Erwärmung - Tatsache oder Behauptung?" (Global warming—fact or fiction?). The Academy was recognized in a consultative function by the
Council of Europe, but the status was withdrawn because of the Academy's failure to comply with its obligations.
The Academy has no active web pages, and it may be defunct. A list of textbooks on
ecology
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...
issued by the Academy is available online.
References
International environmental organizations
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