She first stepped into the world of climate negotiations in 2012 when advising the country’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources. Xie Zhenhua is China’s chief climate change official. South Korean energy economist Hoesung Lee is chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN’s climate science body. Save from the Fijians, Heine is currently the only leader to have strengthened her country’s climate pledge before the 2020 deadline. Before that, she was New Zealand’s climate change ambassador and has, among other things, energetically called on governments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

Source: Ethiopian News December 03, 2018 17:26 UTC