Josep Maria Antó, Appointed Member of the Catalan Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (CADS)

Josep Maria Antó, senior researcher and former scientific director of ISGlobal, has been appointed by the Government of Catalonia as a member of its Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (CADS).

The CADS, created in December 1998, is a collegiate body whose main function is to advise the Government of Catalonia in the field of sustainable development and, especially, in the integration of sustainability in policies, territorial and sectoral planning instruments, in legislative and regulatory projects and in strategic projects or initiatives promoted by Catalonia. Since 2017, the CADS has been supporting the Government of Catalonia in the actions promoted to contribute to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Josep Maria Antó is one of the founders of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), which in 2016 merged with ISGlobal . Antó directed ISGlobal's research area until 2019, when he started working on Planetary Health , an approach that proposes to jointly address the health of people and the planet. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and co-chair of The Lancet Countdown Europe initiative.

The CADS is composed of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 15 members. Along with Josep Maria Antó, four other members have been appointed for a period of two years: Amaranta Herrero, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona and strategic coordinator of the project "Barcelona, World Capital of Sustainable Food 2021" between 2019 i 2022; Anna Ayuso Pozo, senior researcher at CIDOB in the research line on Sustainable Development; Xavier Duran, scientific journalist; and Marta Torres, senior researcher on energy and climate at IDRRI (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales).

Since 2004, CADS has been a member of the EEAC network, which brings together 19 environmental, sustainability and climate change advisory councils of governments and parliaments from 14 European states and regions, and is one of the driving forces behind MedECC, the Mediterranean expert group on climate and environmental change.