UNFCCC new Executive Director proposed
The second announcement that was pending is who would head the UNFCCC? The answer it seems is that of Former Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa She will take up the role as the new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will now need approval by the 11 member U.N. bureau of the UNFCCC. This was reported today by Alister Doyle of Reuters. She was favorite once Erik Solheim was proposed by the Secretary General for Executive Director of UNEP. She will replace Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican who took over the UNFCCC after the disastrous Copenhagen Climate Summit and steered countries to the agreement in December last year in Paris. Espinosa is at present the Mexican Ambassador to Germany and has played an important and very well respected role in the climate negotiations. The present Paris Agreement still needs delivering and more commitmen...