Christine von Weizsäcker
Laureate
- Organisation
- Ecoropa
- Function
- President
- Country
- Germany
- Field of work
- Technologies, Biodiversity / Nature Conservation, Policy and Law
- Awards
- Trophée de femmes, 2014
- B.A.U.M. Umweltpreis, 2017
- 2009 - Bayerischer Naturschutzpreis, 2012 Neumarkter Lammsbräu Nachhaltigkeitspreis
Christine von Weizsäcker is a biologist, researcher and activist, working on technology assessment for civil society since the seventies. Participant in the Rio Process on Sustainable Development since 1992 and in the negotiations of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Protocols since 1994. She is president of Ecoropa, and member of the Board of the Federation of German Scientists. Lecturer of the Year 1996 of the National Association for Science, Technology and Society, Kant Citizen of the World Award, 2006; Bayerischer Naturschutzpreis, 2009; Trophée de Femmes, 2014;