Center for International Forestry Research climate change team leader and senior scientist Amy Duchelle’s passion for her work is uncontestable. From leading the largest global study on the forest-based emissions reduction mechanism REDD+ to bringing evidence to support complex “jurisdictional approaches” for tackling deforestation – spearheaded by tropical forest governments and their partners – Duchelle’s […]
Inger Andersen was appointed U.N. Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director United of the Nations Environment Programme in June 2019 in what she described as a “critical time for humanity.” Having built her career for more than 30 years at the United Nations and World Bank, hop-scotching between focusing on economics, policymaking, water management and the environmental […]
The world’s largest climate fund, the Green Climate Fund, has been running now for more than a decade. Three years ago, Jyotsna Puri, otherwise known as Jo, was brought in to head the Fund’s Independent Evaluation Unit, analyzing its machinery to make sure it’s staying on track. “Faster, smarter, better is basically what I think […]
