Helmut Hojesky has been head of the Department for Air, Soil and Climate Change in the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family Affairs since 1993.

He is in charge of national, EU, and international air quality and climate change policy in Austria (working on legal as well as technical issues), and is responsible for introducing the EU Emissions Trading System in Austria. He chaired the EU climate change Council Working Group during the Austrian EU Presidency in 1998, and has led the Austrian Delegation during several meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Hojesky is a graduate of the University of Vienna with a post-graduate degree in meteorology.

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