A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental
Activities Addressing Global Climate Change Policy

Xie Zhenhua, Head Negotiator of China on Climate Change and Vice Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission, China

Benoît Leguet, Chair of the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee

Biliana Cicin-Sain, Co-Chair and Head of Secretariat, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands

Philippe Boncour, Head of the International Dialogue on Migration Division in the Migration Policy, Research and Communication Department of the International Organization for Migration

Roy Lee, Former Secretary for the UN Conference on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court; Former Secretary of the UN General Assembly Legal Committee and the International Law Commission

Ivar A. Baste, Director, Environment Management Group (EMG) Secretariat, UNEP

Teresa Ribera, Secretary of State for Climate Change; Spanish Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs

Buyelwa Sonjica, Minister of Water and Environment Affairs (South Africa); President of the African Ministers' Council on Water

Ian Fry, International Environmental Officer, Environment Department, Government of Tuvalu

Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC

Juan Mayr, Chair of the negotiations of the Biosafety Protocol; Former Environment Minister of Colombia

Kseniya Lvovsky, Climate Change Program Manager, World Bank

Per Bakken, Head, Chemicals Branch, DTIE, UNEP

Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Dr. Maria Neira, Director, Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization

Raúl A.Estrada-Oyuela, Ambassador, Argentina

Lex de Jonge, Chair of the CDM Executive Board

Douglas Alexander, UK Secretary of State for International Development

Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Yemi Katerere, Head of the UN-REDD Programme Secretariat

Jan Cedergren, Chair, Adaptation Fund Board

Nordic Ministers, Jón Bjarnason, Minister of Agriculture, Iceland; Eva Kjer Hansen, Minister of Food, Denmark; Sirkka-Liisa Anttila, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland; Lars Peder Brekk, Minister of Agriculture and Food, Norway; and Eskil Erlandsson, Minister of Agriculture, Sweden

Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization

Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization

Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD

Andreas Carlgren, Minister of Environment, Sweden

David Osborn, Coordinator, Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities (GPA) Coordination Unit

Jan L. McAlpine, Director, United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat

Olav Kjørven, Assistant Secretary General and Director of Development Policy at the UN Development Programme

Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD

Halldór Ásgrímsson, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Former Icelandic Prime Minister

Taïeb Chérif, ICAO Secretary General

Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility

The UN system’s High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF) Coordination Secretariat, David Nabarro (Coordinator), Randall Purcell, Benoist Veillerette, Marianne Muller, and Dorothy Vanschooneveld

Dr. Ger Bergkamp, Director General, World Water Council and Dr. Mark Smith, Head of the Water Programme, IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Pasquale Steduto, Chair of UN-Water; and Johan Kuylenstierna, Chief Technical Advisor, UN-Water

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Sálvano Briceño, Director of the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)

Marthinus van Schalkwyk, President of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, and Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa

Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Lennart Båge, Chair, High-level Committee on Programmes of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, and President, International Fund for Agricultural Development

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General