Indian environmentalist joins international climate panel | Irish Sun

Indian environmentalist joins international climate panel

Irish Sun (IANS) Wednesday 19th December, 2007

Renowned Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain, winner of the 2005 Stockholm Water Prize, is among the global experts invited to join a high level international commission for climate-proof development that the Swedish government is setting up.

The commission, headed by Gunilla Carlsson, the Swedish minister for International Development Cooperation, consists of twelve members from different countries that represent different perspectives, experience and expertise in the field of climate change.

Besides Sunita Narain, the commission members include Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, President of the World Resources Institute, Jonathan Lash from the US, Youba Sokona, the Malian head of the Sahara and Sahel Observatory, Professor Sun Honglie from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and head of its expert committee on climate change and Margareta Wahlstrom, deputy head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance.

In addition, the new commission will also include representatives from reinsurance company Swiss Re, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank and the European Union (EU) Commission.

The secretariat will be located at the Stockholm Environment Institute, an organisation of great international renown with an active expert role in the work of the IPCC.

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