Politician, born 1959, is Senator for Environment, Building, Transportation and Europe in Bremen since 2007 and was vice chairman of Green Party parliamentary group from 2002 to 2006. From 1992 to 1998 he was director of the Climate Policy Division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy. Since 1998 he teaches political sciences at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science of the Free University in Berlin. Reinhard Loske was author of the book "Greening the North - A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity" commissioned by BUND and Misereor in 1996.

Political scientist, born 1937, he was professor of comparative analysis at the Free University in 1971. He was director of the "Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik" from 1986 to 2007;
Jänicke was consultant to the German chancellor in 1974-76 and member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1981-83. In 1999, he was appointed a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors.

Protestant theologian, born 1938, he started working for the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1968 and was appointed Deputy General Secretary of the WCC in 1973. In 1983 Raiser began to teach systematic theology at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and was head of the faculty’s ecumenical institute. He returned to Geneva in 1992, when he was elected General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. He served the WCC in this capacity until 2003.

Politician, born 1938, from 1987 to 1994 he was German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. From 1994 to 1998 he served as Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Civil Engineering and Urban Development. Subsequently he was appointed general director of the United Nations office in Nairobi and executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Since 2001 Töpfer is a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE). In May 2007 he was appointed professor for Environment and Sustainable Development at Tongji University, Shanghai.