date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:43:34 +0100 from: Armin Haas subject: AMS project to: Alex Haxeltine , Alexander Wokaun , Anco Lankreijer , Andrew Jordan , Antonella Battaglini , Antoni Rosell , Antonio Navarra , Armin Haas , "Asbjørn Torvanger" , "baldur.eliasson@ch.abb.com" , "Benito Müller" , Bert Metz , "bhare@ams.greenpeace.org" , "Brian O'Neill" , Carlo Carraro , Carlo Jaeger , Catherine Boemare , Christian Azar , Christian Flachsland , Christos Giannakopoulos , Claudia Kemfert , Daniel Droste , Eberhard Jochem , Eberhard Jochem , Elaine Jones , Elas Hunfeld , Felicity Thomas , Ferenc Toth , Francis Johnson , Frank Thomalla , Fred Langeweg , Gary Yohe , "gberz@munichre.com" , Gernot Klepper , HALLEGATTE Stephane , Harald Bradke , Heike Zimmermann-Timm , Helga Kromp-Kolb , Henning Jappe , Henning Niemeyer , Henry Neufeldt , Herve Le Treut , "Jaap C. Jansen" , Jan Rotmans , Jean Palutikof , Jean-Charles Hourcade , Jeroen Aerts , Jeroen van der Sluijs , Joan David Tabara , John Schellnhuber , John Turnpenny , Jon Hovi , "Jonathan Köhler" , Juergen Kurths , " juergen.engelhard@rwerheinbraun.com" , "Karen O'Brien" , Katrin Gerlinger , "Klaus Böswald" , Klaus Hasselmann , Kornelis Block , Leen Hordijk , Lennart Olsson , Liudmila Romaniuk , Manfred Stock , Marco Berg , Marcus Lindner , Marina Fischer-Kowalski , Marjan Minnesma , Mark Rounsevell , Martin Claussen , Martin Kaltschmitt , Martin Parry , " martin.welp" , Mike Hulme , Monika Ritt , MVV C&E Berlin Tom Mansfield , MVV C&E Hanan Abdul-Rida , Nakicenovic , Neil Adger , "Niklas Höhne" , Ola Johannessen , ottmar edenhofer , "Pål Prestrud" , Pavel Kabat , Philippe Ambrosi , Pier Vellinga , Pier Vellinga , Pim Martens , "Reinhard G. Budich" , Renaud Crassous , Alex Haxeltine , "Brian O'Neill" , Eberhard Jochem , Jean-Charles Hourcade , Lennart Olsson , Ola Johannessen , Tom Downing , Eberhard Jochem , Rik Leemans , ottmar edenhofer , "richard.klein" , "Karen O'Brien" , "richard.klein" , Rik Leemans , Roger Kasperson , Rupert Klein , "S.E. van der Leeuw" , "S.E. van der Leeuw" , Saleemul Huq , Sebastian Gallehr , Simone Ullrich , "SSinger@wwfepo.org" , Stephane Hallegatte , Alexander Wokaun , John Schellnhuber , Klaus Hasselmann , Pier Vellinga , " S.E. van der Leeuw" , "S.E. van der Leeuw" , Sebastian Gallehr , Pier Vellinga , Sybille van den Hove , "Tim O'Riordan" , Tobias Kampet , Tom Downing , Tom Kram , Tony Patt , "V.K. Dochenko" , Wim Turkenburg , Wolfgang Cramer , Wolfgang Lucht Dear all, Attached please find the first minutes of the strategy committee. We are building on the documents attached to my first e-mail to you so as to stepwise define the project and develop the proposal. Many of you have been asked to make specific contributions and we are grateful for the timely responses we get. In particular, we have asked the members of the research committee to specialize on specific work domains in the short run, so as to move fast forward with the writing. We will soon mail out a first raw version of the proposal and ask for additional input. By now, for most work domains not only individual contributors, but also working groups facilitated by the work domain coordinators have been formed. They work via e-mail and teleconferences, and they work well - thank you. For your convenience, here comes the list of domain coordinators: Scenarios: Sander van der Leeuw Adaptation: Pier Vellinga Mitigation: Alexander Wokaun Strategies: John Schellnhuber Cross-cutting activities: Klaus Hasselmann On our second decision-making session, we have taken a first round of decisions about project partners. As these are of particular importance, I communicate the key decision here without waiting for the second minutes (these need to be checked at the next meeting of the strategy committee): we have decided that all institutions represented either in the strategy or the research committee will be asked to be project partners. For your convenience here comes the list of these institutions: CEPE / ETH CICERO CIRED CNRS ECF IIASA ISI Lund University Nansen Institute Paul Scherrer Institute / ETH PIK SEI Tyndall Centre Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Wageningen University The list is not closed yet, and no budget decisions have been taken so far. Both issues will be addressed soon, of course. Clearly, the EU wants to see proposals organized around a small number of competent and powerful institutions. At the same time, it seems that sub-contracting will be very difficult in the 6th framework program. Therefore, we will have a long list of partners with the understanding that all partners see this project as a major opportunity to take advantage of research synergies and to gain visibility, an opportunity they are actually willing to invest in. We have no time for efforts to make a lot of money for oneself where there is an opportunity to make critical discoveries for the whole community - discoveries that will no doubt direct additional money flows towards those who make them. Besides the on-going writing process and the definitions of partners and budgets, the form-filling exercise will keep us busy in the weeks to come. As this is critical, too, it may be useful to start talking with the relevant officers in your institution so as to make sure that they can handle things on short notice by the end of this month. With this background, I look forward to a process of discovery carried out at a European scale in view of global risks, and I believe that it is just about time for Europe to get its act together when it comes to global risks. Best regards, Carlo Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\ams 12 m 03 sc minutes 09-03-03.rtf"