His function includes risk management, environmental management, climate change adaptation and mitigation and water service compliance monitoring. He is tasked with the mammoth responsibility to oversee and drive the municipality’s transition towards a Green Economy given the finite nature of natural resources. Mr. Mhlongo is a Member of the Mbombela Appeals Tribunal and the Chairperson of the…
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Carolina Urrutia is the Bogotá's Secretary of the Environment. In this position, she has developed and launched the City's Climate Action Plan: a route to reduce 15% of GHG emissions by 2024, 50% by 2030, and accomplish carbon-neutrality in 2050. Likewise, other public policies proposed by Carolina, such as the Air Quality Plan and the Land-Use plan, are related to tackling the Climate Emergency…
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Carole Dieschbourg is the Minister of Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development of Luxembourg. In 2015 under the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Carole Dieschbourg coordinated the position of the European Union at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. Carole Dieschbourg joined the government as Minister for the Environment on 4 December…
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Beatrice Atim Anywar is a Ugandan politician who serves as the Member of Parliament representing the Kitgum Municipality Constituency in the 10th Ugandan Parliament (2016 to 2021). Effective 14 December 2019, she concurrently serves as the State Minister for the Environment, in the Ugandan Cabinet. During her first term in parliament, she was appointed as the shadow minister for environment due…
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Tanja is the co-founder and director of Clarmondial AG, a Swiss based investment advisory company focused on mobilizing capital for sustainable natural resource management. She is also a director of the Food Securities Fund. Tanja has over 20 years of experience in environmental finance. She has led mandates with companies, private and public investors, governments, NGOs and foundations on…
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Arzu Önsal, Deputy Director, Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Turkey
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Being appointed as the Deputy Undersecretary to the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization in 2013, prior to this post, Professor Birpinar held the position of the Provincial Director of Istanbul in the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (2011-2012) and in the former Ministry of Environment and Forestry (2003-2011). Professor Birpınar was elected as the President of the Bureau of the…
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Joins us to discuss how nature loss is an economic and development issue, and how it is linked to climate change, as well as pathways to undertake both nature and climate-smart development in the future, including through expanding our economic toolkit beyond GDP to account for the wealth provided by nature.
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