15 Facts About Bert Bolin

Bert Bolin was professor of meteorology at Stockholm University from 1961 until his retirement in 1990.

Bert Bolin earned a master's degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1956, both in meteorology, at Stockholm University.

Bert Bolin resided in Osterskar, northeast of Stockholm where he died aged 82.

Bert Bolin was involved in organising use of the new satellite tools for climate research, which led to the formation of the ICSU Committee on Atmospheric Sciences in 1964, with Bert Bolin becoming its first chairman.

CAS started the Global Atmospheric Research Programme in 1967, which Bert Bolin chaired; GARP became the World Climate Research Programme in 1980.

Bert Bolin served on the Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases from 1985.

In 1987, the 500-page Brundtland Report which Bert Bolin was involved with contributed to the setting up of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Bert Bolin was asked to accept the Prize on behalf of the IPCC, but was too ill to attend.

Bert Bolin is credited with bringing together a diverse range of views among the panel's 3,500 scientists into something resembling a consensus.

Bert Bolin has been scientific director of the European Space Research Organisation.

Bert Bolin was co-founder of Stockholm Environment Institute in 1988 and chairman of its board in the 1990s as well as special advisor on climate and energy.

Bert Bolin received many awards and honors for his work in climate research, including the International Meteorological Organization Prize, Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the highest atmospheric science award of the American Meteorological Society, Korber European Science Prize, the Milutin Milankovic Medal in 1993, and the Blue Planet Prize, often considered as the Nobel Prize for environmental sciences.

Bert Bolin jointly received the Global Environment Facility's 1999 Global Environment Leadership Award.

Bert Bolin was a member of the Swedish, Norwegian and Russian Academies of Sciences.

In November 2007, shortly before his death, Bert Bolin published the partly autobiographical A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.