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a final amendment to do so before parties meet in Kigali, Rwanda, later this year. But while countries coalesced around a narrower set of options on a few key issues, the negotiations did not produce the draft text for which many had hoped.
Advocates who attended the talks blamed India for seeking an amendment that would give poor countries 15 years to stop growing HFCs, despite the fact that they are expected to contribute most of the superpollutant’ s growth.
Power with Purpose: don’ t lose sight of these five women
Fearless, driven and strong, our five Power with Purpose honorees show how great leadership can produce real change.
Christiana Figueres, Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Kristalina Georgieva, Fayeeza Naqvi and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are tackling some of the world’ s greatest challenges without hesitation and are a well needed source of inspiration in an increasingly unstable world.
If you haven’ t yet discovered their personal motivations and life stories, make sure to learn more about their hard work as climate champions, social entrepreneurs, global humanitarians, philanthropists and economists.
The economist with the EU budget in her hands
Kristalina Georgieva knows that it takes great leadership to produce real change. Now in charge of the EU budget, she’ s the one ensuring that the budget is invested in ways that create the highest possible impact. She’ s Kristalina Georgieva also working towards an impressive milestone: to make sure that women represent 40 percent of the Commission’ s senior and middle management by the end of 2019. Most would need a lifetime to achieve a fraction of what
Kristalina Georgieva has done. After her top position at the World Bank she moved on to head the EU’ s humanitarian agency where she delivered assistance to over 500 million individuals affected by conflict and disaster. To her, it’ s about the“ responsibility to do the right thing.”
Quentin Grafton
R. Quentin Grafton, FASSA, is Professor of Economics, ANU Public Policy Fellow, Fellow of the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy( CWEEP) at the Crawford School Professor Quentin Grafton of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
In April 2010 he was appointed the Chairholder, the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance and between August 2013 and July 2014 served as Executive Director at the Australian National Institute of Public Policy( ANIPP). He currently serves as the Director of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water Network. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including and most recently the National Water Commission Professor Peter Cullen Eureka Prize for Water Research and Innovation( 2011), the Vice-Chancellors’ Award for Education, Excellence in Supervision and the ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning( 2011).
Previously he was Chief Economist and Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics( 2011-2013), Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies( 2001- 2004) at the ANU, Director of the Institute of the Environment( 1999-2001) at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
A PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1992, and holds an MS degree from Iowa State University and an undergraduate degree from Massey University in agricultural economics. He has served as Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He is presently an Editor for the journal Asia and Pacific Policy Studies and Editor in Chief of Policy Forum. net. He is the founder and Executive Editor of the Global Water Forum.
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