Bert Metz is a Dutch climatologist. He was Co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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 (IPCC) Working Group III on mitigation on climate change for the third and fourth assessment report of the IPCC. Currently he is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

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Metz obtained an Engineer's degree

Engineer's degree

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 in Chemical Engineering

Chemical engineering

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 at Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

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 and subsequently his Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 degree at the same university. From 1976 to 1987 he worked for Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment in the fields of air pollution, external safety, noise pollution, chemical waste and the enforcement of environmental laws. From 1987 until 1992 he was Counsellor for Health and Environment at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC. In 1992 he became Deputy Director for Air and Energy of the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, with responsibility for climate policy. He led the Netherlands delegation to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol

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 to the Climate Convention.

In 1997 he moved to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency at RIVM to head the group on climate change and global sustainability and was elected as co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the IPCC for the preparation of the Third Assessment Report

IPCC Third Assessment Report

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. In 2002 he was re-elected in that position for the 4th Assessment Report cycle.