It consists of the following members, who are appointed by the Federal Government.
Hubert Weinzierl
Chairman
President of the German League for Nature and Environment (Deutscher Naturschutzring)
Helmut Jäger
Vice Chairman
Entrepreneur
Jürgen Becker
Vice Chairman
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Otto Fricke, MdB
Chairman of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag
Prof. Dr. phil. Martin Jänicke
Head of the Environmental Policy Research Centre of the Freie Universität Berlin
Steffen Kampeter
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Prof. Hans-Helmut Kotz
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Udine Kurth, MdB
Member of the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the German Bundestag
Member of the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the German Bundestag
Hans-Heinrich Sander
Minister of the Environment of Lower Saxony
Georg Schirmbeck, MdB
Member of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Michael Succow
Botanical Institute of the University of Greifswald
Cornelia Quennet-Thielen
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Klaus Wiesehügel
Federal chairman of the Industriegewerkschaft Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt