Attorney Krapp is an internationally active expert in international environmental law. After his retirement in June 2018, he was admitted to the bar in Cologne. He can appear before all German courts (with the exception of civil cases at the Federal Court of Justice) and take legally binding actions there.
He has 37 years of professional experience as a German diplomat with a focus on international environmental law, most recently as envoy and head of the economic department of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York.
He has participated in numerous global environmental conferences, e.g.
- at several conferences of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Climate Agreement
- at conferences of the parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity - at global sustainability conferences
- World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002
- World Summit for the adoption of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development in 2015 in New York, etc.
Attorney Krapp is a board member of the “International Council of Environmental Law” (ICEL), a renowned international non-governmental organization with accreditation by the United Nations. He is the Permanent Representative of ICEL to the United Nations institutions in Bonn and maintains regular contacts with the environmental secretariats based in Bonn, e.g. the Climate Secretariat, the Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification and the Secretariat for the Protection of Highly Migratory Species. ICEL website:
www.icelinternational.org.
He has many years of practical experience in dealing with EU environmental law:
- as environmental officer at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union in Brussels (representative of Germany in the council group responsible for EU environmental law)
- as head of department (lecture councilor 1st class) of the department of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, which is responsible, among other things, for EU environmental law For three years he was head of the legal and consular department of the German embassy in Moscow (focus: immigration law, visa law, repatriates, Russian Germans, Jewish emigration).
He speaks fluent English and French and good Russian.