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Ms. Nintira Abhisinha

Vice President, Finance, Accounting and Finance

Age 45

Education / Training

- MBA, Case Western Reserve University, USA (KBank scholarship)

- BA (Commerce) (Honours), Chulalongkorn University

- Energy Leadership Development for Senior Managers (Class 6), Ministry

of Energy

- Chief Financial Officer Certification Program (Class 15), Federation of

Accounting Professions

- Certificate of Executive Education, Executive Development Program

2012, Fiscal Policy Research Institute Foundation-Thailand, in cooperation

with Maxwell School of Syracuse University

Experience

The Bangchak Petroleum Public Company Limited

- 2008 – present : Vice President, Finance, Accounting and Finance

Others

- 1993 : Chief of Business Promotion, Business

Development,

K Bank

- 1994 – 1999 : Vice President, Investment, Capital Management

Company Limited

- 1999 – 2001 : Deputy Managing Director, Capital Management

Company Limited

- 2001 – 2004 : Vice President, Corporate Business Development,

Samart Corporation Public Company Limited

- 2004 – 2007 : Vice President, Samart Comtech Company Limited

- 2005 – 2007 : Member of sub-committee on National Skill

Standards, Department of Skill Development,

Ministry of Labour

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Lorena Aguilar

IUCN

A Global Senior Gender Advisor with more than twenty-five years of experience in projects

and initiatives involving public policy development, building local institutions and the

incorporation of social and gender issues into development.

Established and consolidated the IUCN Global Gender Office, which is the preferred partner

for international governments and non-governmental organizations seeking to promote

gender equality and women empowerment for achieving biodiversity conservation and

sustainable development. She has created and/or is part of some of the most influential

international gender networks; e.g. the Network of Women Ministers and Leaders of the

Environment and the Global Gender and Climate Alliance.

Developed strategies for mainstreaming gender in leading organizations, including United

Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), United Nations

Environmental Programme (UNEP), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Support governments to

develop gender policies and to create organizational capacity in the area of gender equality

and women’s empowerment. Authored over seventy publications, including thirty books,

ongender, development, disaster risk, water, health and environment. Keynote speaker at

several international conferences, congresses and high-level events.

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Ali Babacan,

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy

Ali Babacan (b. Ankara 1967) holds a Bachelor of Science Degree

(BS) in Industrial Engineering (Middle East Technical University,

Ankara) and a MBA from Northwestern University (Illinois). He

has worked at a Chicago-based financial consultancy and ran his

family business in Turkey. A founding and Board Member of the

Justice and Development Party (AKP), he was Minister of State

for the Economy from 2002-2007. He was also made Chief

Negotiator for Turkey’s EU negotiations in June 2005. In 2007’s

general election he was re-elected to Parliament. In August 2007 he was appointed Minister

of Foreign Affairs in the 60th Government of the Republic of Turkey. In May 2009 he was

appointed Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister. In August 2010, he was chosen to a

new United Nations panel on global sustainability by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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Michaela S. Bergman

Chief Social Counsellor, Environment & Sustainability

Michaela Bergman is a social anthropologist and lawyer by background, with 20 years’

experience of working in development with a variety of Multi-lateral, International Financial

Institutions, bi-laterals and civil society. She has worked in over 40 countries, in East and

Central Europe, Central, East and South Asia and more recently in the Middle East.

Her expertise and experience lies both in policy and project related activities related to

gender, involuntary resettlement, poverty alleviation, protection and empowerment of

vulnerable and socially excluded groups, Indigenous Peoples, community development,

disability, provision of community based services, support of civil society, human rights and

labour laws; particularly in post-conflict countries and transitional economies.

Michaela joined EBRD seven and a half years ago. She has just been appointed the Chief

Counsellor for Social issues and given the responsibility for mainstreaming gender into the

Bank’s operations.

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Susanne Breitkopf

Advisor for Forests & Climate at Greenpeace

Susanne is a Senior Political Advisor for Forests & Climate at Greenpeace. She holds a Ms in

Political Science from Sorbonne University in Paris and has lived and worked with civil

society organizations and governmental organizations on 3 continents for 15 years. Susanne

has actively contributed to the FIP since its design phase and served as developed country

civil society observer on the subcommittee for 3 years. She has also been closely following

similar processes at the FCPF and the GEF. She recently co-authored a public consultation

paper on international forest safeguards, and a second version is currently being developed

and will be available for discussion.

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Ms.KAREN BREYTENBACH

Senior Project Advisor in the Public Private Partnership (“PPP”) Unit of the National

Treasury of South Africa

KAREN BREYTENBACH is a Senior Project Advisor in the Public Private Partnership

(“PPP”) Unit of the National Treasury of South Africa and Head of the Finance Desk. The

National Treasury PPP Unit has a dual role as the regulator of PPPs and the provider of

technical assistance to national, provincial departments and local government, and public

entities.

Currently, Karen is involved in REFIT Programme for IPPs, IPP Peaking Plants, office

accommodation, rental housing, power generation and schools PPP projects. She is also part

of the team responsible for the development of the standardized toolkit for accommodation

projects.

Previously Karen was at the Development Bank of Southern Africa, involved in the private

financing of infrastructure projects such as the earlier toll roads, water projects and the

Mozambique gas pipeline.

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Jonathan Charles

Director, Communications

Jonathan Charles is the Director of the Communications department at the EBRD and is a

member of the Bank’s weekly Executive Committee.

Jonathan came to the Bank in 2011 after a long and distinguished career at the BBC, winning

several awards for his journalism. As a BBC presenter and foreign correspondent, he has

appeared on BBC1 and BBC World News.

His specialist areas include economics, the EU and international diplomacy; he has a keen

interest in issues surrounding the single currency.

Having established television operations for the BBC in Brussels and Frankfurt, he is well

practiced in recruiting and leading teams of reporters, researchers, producers and technical

staff. He holds an MA (Oxon) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oriel College,

Oxford University, and is fluent in French and German.

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Alistair Clark

Managing Director, Environment and Sustainability

Dr Alistair Clark was appointed in 2001 as Director of the Environment Department of the

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 2007, his title changed to

Managing Director, Environment and Sustainability.

The Department consists of approximately 25 environmental and social specialists who

undertake environmental due diligence and monitoring of the projects in implementation.

His role includes ensuring that all investments are consistent with the Environmental Policy

and Environmental Procedures of the EBRD.

He is also responsible for providing strategic direction to the EBRD with respect to the

implementation of the Bank’s environmental mandate and the incorporation of environmental

aspects in all sector and country policies and strategies. In addition, he serves on the Energy

and Environment Management working group and is vice chairman of the newly formed

Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee of the EBRD.

He also actively contributes to the Multilateral Financial Institutions Environment Group and

represents the Bank at many international agency meetings.

Prior to his appointment he was a Senior Vice President of URS Dames & Moore, a

multinational environmental consultancy responsible for major project development. During

15 years at URS Dames & Moore he worked in over 40 countries and has published

extensively in the fields of atmospheric chemistry and environmental impact assessment.

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George Cuñachi

Forestry Specialist with AIDESEP

Since 2009, George has served as a Forestry Specialist with AIDESEP, Peru's largest

Amazonian indigenous umbrella organization. George worked on the implementation of

sustainable forest management within indigenous territories in 2006 - 2009, and has since

been centrally involved in AIDESEP's advocacy for the protection of indigenous rights in the

context of national dialogues around climate change mitigation through forest protection. A

member of the Awajun indigenous people, George has degrees in forestry engineering and

Amazonian studies

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Ms. Myrna Cunningham

President of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Dr. Myrna Cunningham, a surgeon, is Chair of the Center for Indigenous People’s Autonomy

and Development and also the founder of Casa Museo, a museum and multicultural center

dedicated to indigenous and Afro-Nicaraguan art and history. Dr. Cunningham is an

indigenous Miskita and a former member of the National Assembly of Nicaragua where she

also served as Minister of Health and as Governor of the North Atlantic Coast. She founded

(and acted as the first female Chancellor of) the University of the Autonomous Regions of the

Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN) and has served as the General Secretary of the

Inter-American Indigenous Institute. In 2002, she received the Pan American Health

Organization’s Public Health Heroine of the Americas Award.

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Tracy Cull : -

Kulima Integrated Development Solutions

Tracy Cull is a Director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (www.kulima.com), a

women-owned and managed climate adaptation consultancy that specialises in Africa. She

has an academic background in gender studies, having undertaken postgraduate research

looking at gender and local government in Durban, South Africa. Subsequently she spent 13

years at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, teaching geography

undergraduates and training geography teachers. More recently, she acted as the training

coordinator for the DFID-funded Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, where she

took the lead in a pilot programme providing women-led farming cooperatives with

cellphones – a project which was the subject of longitudinal impact modelling and has

resulted in the publication of several peer-reviewed papers. In Kulima Integrated

Development Solutions she continues to be committed to taking a gender-sensitive approach

in all consulting activities. She co-authored the critically-acclaimed “Gender, climate change

and community-based adaptation: A guidebook for designing and implementing gender-

sensitive community-based adaptation projects and programmes” for the UNDP-GEF

Community-Based Adaptation Programme, and has been involved in a number of training

activities around gender and climate change – most recently for the Climate Change,

Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme and CARE International in

Mozambique.

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Hugo Piu Che Deza

President of Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR),

Hugo is the President of Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), a Peruvian non-

profit promoting sustainable development and good governance in the Peruvian Amazon.

DAR is the selected Latin American society observer to the FCPF and coordinates the

National Roundtable on REDD, the Peruvian platform for civil society, private sector and

government to share information and strategies to improve the national REDD+ Process.

Hugo holds a MS in Environmental Management from the University of the Andes in

Colombia, and a Bachelor of Law from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in

Peru. He is an active member of various organizations, such as the Environmental Law

Committee of IUCN, the Environmental Law Alliance Wordwide (ELAW), and the Latin

American Network of Environmental Forestry law (RELADEFA). He has authored several

books and articles on REDD, forest policy and legislation.

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Michael Davey

Director, Turkey

Michael Davey first took up his responsibilities at the EBRD in 1993 as a Senior Banker in

the Financial Institutions team followed by Country Director for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz

Republic and then Country Director for Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia

and Moldova. In January 2009 he assumed his current responsibility as Director for Turkey.

He is a business graduate of Massey University in New Zealand.

Mr. Davey began his professional career with the Bank of New Zealand, then continued with

DFC (NZ) Ltd followed by nine years at the Asian Development Bank.

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Dr. Tufa Dinku

Associate Research Scientist, Climate & Environmental Monitoring,

International Research Institute for Climate & Society (IRI)

Dr. Dinku received a B.Sc. in physics from Addis Ababa University and a post-graduate

diploma in meteorology form India. He worked at the National Metrological Agency of

Ethiopia for over a decade mainly in the satellite applications unit. Then he joined the

University of Connecticut where he obtained M.Sc. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Civil

Engineering/hydrometeorology. Dr. Dinku had also an opportunity to work as a visiting

scientist at the National Space and Aeronautics Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Dr. Dinku joined IRI in 2005. His main research interest is remote sensing of climate

variables such as precipitation and temperature. His current research includes identifying

global climate data sets (both satellite and conventional), assessing their quality, making

adjustments whenever possible, and adapting these products for specific applications. His

current work focuses on the optimal combinations of satellite climate proxies with national

observations from meteorological stations in Africa.

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Nathalie Eddy: -

Coordinator of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA)

Nathalie Eddy serves as the Coordinator of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA),

an international network of over 60 UN agencies, inter-governmental organizations and civil

society organizations working to ensure climate policy and practice is gender responsive.

Nathalie started working on international climate policy over 15 years ago. She worked for

the UNFCCC on CDM / JI issues, coordinated USCAN for several years, and helped launch

an initiative to bring the first indigenous peoples delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations.

Nathalie focused much of her climate work on public participation and transparency issues,

which led to her position with WRI serving as Senior Associate with The Access Initiative

(TAI). Nathalie conducted research and led trainings on environmental governance, working

primarily in Africa and South Asia, and facilitating trainings worldwide.

She is an attorney by training, and previously worked for the State of Colorado, clerking for a

judge and then serving as an Assistant Attorney General working on air law (including

drafting new state GHG regulations). She earned her D.E.S.S. in environmental law from the

Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France, and her J.D. focusing on international law

and human rights from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Mr. JOSE CARLOS FERNANDEZ UGALDE

Jose Carlos Fernandez Ugalde has been the Head of the International Affairs and Financing

Unit at the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) since late 2009. His currenty

responsibilities include leading the negotiations on REDD for the Mexican Government,

coordinating fast start finance and readiness funding for forests and the development of the

National REDD+ Strategy.

Prior to his current position he also served as Program Manager on Environment, Economy

and Trade for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Head of

Environmental Economics at the National Institute of Ecology (INE) in Mexico and as

National Coordinator of Environmental Policy for Pronatura A.C. México, an enviornmental

NGO.

He holds a Degree in Economics from the ITAM and a Master of Philosophy (Hons) in

Economics, from Cambridge University, UK.

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Jeannette D. Gurung, Executive Director, WOCAN

Jeannette has a MSc in Forestry from the University of

Washington (USA), and a PhD in Gender and

Development from the University of East Anglia (UK).

Her career has focused on women’s empowerment and

organizational change for gender equality within

agriculture and natural resource management

organizations in Asia and Africa. Jeannette has expertise

in training/capacity building, action research, gender

analysis, organizational analysis, policy advocacy and

network building, and has published numerous articles and books. She is founder and director

of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

(WOCAN), a global network of over 900 women and men professionals in 95 countries.

WOCAN engages in advocacy and capacity building for women’s leadership through an

innovative approach of partnering women farmers with professionals, and building the

support of men in the process. Most recently, WOCAN has led research and advocacy efforts

on gender within REDD+ dialogues and initiatives in Asia. WOCAN is currently developing

innovative mechanisms for women to engage with and benefit from climate change

investments and markets.

She is a member of the UN Forum on Forests, Committee on Food Security, the Network of

Women Agriculture Ministers and Leaders, and The Forest Dialogue Steering Committee.

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Lin o’Grady:

Deputy Director, EBRD

Lin O’Grady has more than 25 years of experience, working internationally in the

infrastructure sector. She joined the Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure Team as

Deputy Director in July 2011. Prior to that she was a Banker in the EBRD’s Transport Team,

covering all transport modes and working mainly in the Former Soviet union and South East

Europe.

Lin started her career as an ODI (Overseas Development Institute) fellow in Swaziland and

went after this to work for the Department for International Development (DFID), then

known as ODA. She then worked in the private sector, in transport consultancy, followed by

the European Commissions’ TACIS (Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of

Independent States) programme in the early 1990s.

Lin has a BA in Economics and an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering.

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Eugene Howard-

EIB

Eugene Howard is an economic advisor at the European Investment Bank (EIB) with 18

years of experience in technical, environmental and economic due diligence of energy

projects. His sector experience includes most types of conventional and renewable electricity

generation technologies, electricity transmission and distribution, natural gas liquefaction and

regasification, gas transportation and storage. Currently, he is focused on the support of EIB

financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects worldwide. He has participated

in setting up two of the carbon funds co-managed by the EIB and he is active in the review

and mainstreaming of EIB policies on environmental assessment, social assessment, climate

mitigation and adaptation through various working groups. He has played an active role in

defining the scope for and implementing the Bank’s pilot carbon footprint programme and is

a key supporter of the Bank's climate change technical assistance facility. He is a member of

the technical support unit for the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund

(GEEREF) that is managed by the EIB on behalf of the European Commission. Prior to

joining EIB, Eugene worked at the International Energy Agency (IEA) to which he joined

from Theodore Barry Management Consultants. He holds the equivalent of a double

bachelor's in Mechanical and Industrial (Manufacturing) Engineering from University of

California, Berkeley and completed a master of science in Economics from London School of

Economics.

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Tim Irwin: -

International Monetary Fund

Tim Irwin is in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund. The focus

of his recent work has been on improving the quality of information on public finances in

countries such as Iceland, Mexico, Portugal, and the UAE. Before joining the Fund, he

worked as an economic and financial consultant and at the World Bank, mostly on public

policy for utilities and infrastructure projects. Before that, he worked at the OECD and the

New Zealand Treasury. He has a degree in public policy from Princeton University.

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Caleb Indiatsi

Manager, Corporate Planning & Projects , Geothermal Development Company

Caleb Indiatsi is the Manager, Corporate Planning and Projects at the Geothermal

Development Company in Kenya. A mechanical engineer, Indiatsi has over 13 years of

experience in the energy sector ranging from implementation of power plant projects such as

geothermal, wind, hydro and thermal; operation of steam and gas turbine power plants; policy

development for renewable energy; to designing and developing business plans and strategic

plans. He has also worked with the private sector as a Boiler Services Engineer, machine

floor supervisor and sales engineer for a leading fabrication company. He is a Graduate

Member of both the Engineers Registration Board (Kenya) and the Institution of Engineers

Kenya

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Rick Jacobsen

International Forest Policy team, Global Witness

Rick heads the International Forest Policy team at Global Witness and has several years of

experience working on multi-lateral REDD+ processes and international policy, with an

emphasis on forest governance issues. He currently acts as the elected civil society observer

for developed countries to the FIP. He is based in Global Witness’ Washington DC office.

Global Witness is a UK-based NGO that for 17 years has campaigned against natural

resource-related conflict and corruption and associated environmental and human rights

abuses

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Bruce Jenkins

Bruce is a consultant on sustainable development, with a focus on environmental, social, and

governance issues. In 2011, he undertook comparative assessments of social and

environmental standards for the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s task force charged with

developing the Common Approach to Environmental and Social Safeguards. He was

formerly the Policy Director at the Bank Information Center (BIC) in Washington, DC. Bruce

led BIC’s work on a range of IFI reform issues, including expanding access to information,

promoting stronger environmental and social safeguard policies, strengthening accountability

mechanisms, and ensuring greater public participation in IFI policy processes. Before joining

BIC, he served as Executive Director of The Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, where he

managed the institution’s research and outreach programs. He holds degrees from the

University of New Hampshire and the Freie Universitaet Berlin.

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Michelle Kaminski

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Michelle Kaminski is Manager of the Global Environment and Climate Finance Unit in the

Multilateral and Global Programs Branch at the Canadian International Development Agency

(CIDA). She is responsible for managing Canada's contributions to the Climate Investment

Funds, Global Environment Facility as well as other climate funds. Prior to joining CIDA,

Ms. Kaminski worked at the Canadian Department of Finance on international finance,

focusing on IMF and G-20 issues, as well as on development finance during her tenure as

Advisor to the Executive Director for Canada and Morocco at the European Bank for

Reconstruction and Development. Ms. Kaminski's professional experience also includes

policy work on the Equalization program and personal income taxes while at the Canadian

Department of Finance, as well as analytical work at the Bank of Canada in the Research and

Financial Markets Departments.

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Mr. Sarafat Khan

Director Planning, Bangladesh Water Development Board, Ministry of Water

Resources; PPCR Country Representative

Mr. Sarafat Hossain Khan has a Masters in Civil Engineering. His specialization is on Water

Resources Management, Climate Risks and Vulnerability Assessment, Climate Change

Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate proofing, Mainstreaming climate

change in development planning and programming, feasibility studies, emission reduction

strategy etc. He has more than twenty five years of professional experience in the fields of

water resources, coastal zone management, drainage, irrigation and flood management,

climate change impact assessment on infrastructure and natural resources and adaptation

options.

He currently works with the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and is involved

in the implementation of the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience in Bangladesh

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Henry V. Kimber, MSPM, B. Sc.

Henry works for the Liberian Government as the Program Coordinator for Energy at the

Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy. The Ministry is the highest arm of the Government

with oversight on energy, and the Program Coordinator is the primary person tasked with the

responsibility of coordinating and managing the Ministry’s energy programs, and fostering

collaboration with stakeholders. Henry works directly with the Minister, and he serves as the

focal point to the Minister on energy matters. He is the liaison between the Ministry,

development partners, and other agencies on energy matters. He is also the focal person for

several energy initiatives, including Energy + and SE4ALL.

As part of his functions at the Ministry, he is the Program Manager for the program

“Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building in the Water Resources and Energy

Sectors.” This is a five-year program signed in 2010 between the Norwegian Water

Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), and the Liberian Ministry of Lands, Mines and

Energy (MLME). The program has six (6) main components; preparation of legal and

regulatory framework in the energy sector; capacity building in the energy sector; generation

planning and coordination, upgrading the national hydro-meteorological network and

database; rural and renewable energy; and gender mainstreaming and women empowerment

in the energy sector.

Henry was born in Liberia and he obtained his bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in

Mathematics/Physics from the University of Liberia, and a Master of Science in Project

Management (MSPM) degree from the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. He is married

with two boys; St. Peter and Henry Jr.

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Susan Kish

Head of Cross Platform Initiatives at Bloomberg LP

Susan Kish is a senior executive with more than two decades of experience in financial

services, renewable energy, media, networks and building businesses. Susan is currently the

Head of Cross Platform Initiatives at Bloomberg LP. As such, she is responsible for a

portfolio of mandates to coordinate and integrate across the media platforms and publications

of Bloomberg worldwide. Previously, Susan was the Director of Knowledge Services at New

Energy Finance, a subsidiary of Bloomberg. BNEF is the world's independent provider of

research in renewable energy, smart energy technologies, and the carbon markets. At the

firm, she launched and produced the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, the leading

gathering of thought leaders across the global clean energy and carbon markets, now in its

fifth year. Previously, Susan was the CEO of First Tuesday Zurich, which she founded in

1999. The firm was a highly regarded independent think tank that supported the development

of thought leader networks and innovative knowledge sharing in areas such as sustainable

energy, mobile/telecom, and financial services. The firm focused on generating strategic

dialogue and collaborative learning, through techniques such as scenario planning and war

game simulations. First Tuesday’s forums, workshops, and awards were attended by over

23,000 people. After First Tuesday Zurich was acquired in 2006 by the professional online

network XING, she became XING's Head of Network and Community Practice. Susan is a

director and co-founder of the Energy Venture Forum, the foundation which established and

produces the European Energy Venture Fair in Zurich. She is an independent Director and

Advisor on several boards, including the Boston Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce,

SwissNex Science Consulate, and the global Sandbox Network. Susan was with UBS for

more than 14 years, most.

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Dr. Gursel Kusek

Director General of Agrarian Reform of the TR Ministry of Food, Agriculture and

Livestock (MFAL), Turkey

Dr. Kusek is the Director General of the General Directorate of Agrarian Reform, the lead

agency for land management in agriculture in Turkey. Armed with Ph.D. on the topic, he has

been one of the most dedicated champions of land consolidation nationally having personally

spearheaded the consolidation of over 4,000,000 ha of agricultural land, thus likely to be

among the most experienced in the region on L/C and the broader issues of land management

and its links with poverty. He expertise stretches across initiating and leading the national

task force since 1990 that has been calculating GHG emissions from agriculture and land use

changes to authoring the "Drought and Global Warming Mitigation and Action Plan" of

Turkey and the Agriculture Sector component of the UNDP-led "Turkish Climate Change

Strategy and Action Plan" developed in 2012. He has worked in closely with the World Bank

and other donors in all aspects of poverty reduction and natural resource and watershed

management for over 20 years.

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Hans Peter Lankes

Acting Vice President for Operational Policies and Managing Director, Institutional

Strategy

Hans Peter Lankes has been Managing Director, Institutional Strategy since May 2011. In

this function he has advised the President on the Bank’s Strategy and served as secretary to

the Executive Committee.

Between July 2008 and May 2011 Mr Lankes was the Director of the President’s Office.

Previously he was the EBRD’s Deputy Chief Economist, with responsibility for economic

assessments and clearance of projects and for helping design the Bank’s institutional strategy.

Prior to joining the EBRD in January 2007, Mr Lankes worked at the International Monetary

Fund in Washington, D.C., where he was Chief of the Trade Division and held other roles

over a six-year period.

Mr Lankes's earlier career saw him work at the Central American Business School, the

Nicaraguan Ministry of Economy and the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce before a first

period of employment at the EBRD between 1993 and 2000.

Mr Lankes is a German National and holds academic qualifications from Université de

Grenoble, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg and Harvard University.

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Mr. Jeremiah R. D. Lengoasa,

Deputy Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

Jerry Lengoasa took up his duties as Deputy Secretary-General of WMO on 1 March 2010.

He held the position of Assistant Secretary-General of WMO from 2005.

From 2003 to 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of the South African Weather Service

and Permanent Representative of South Africa with WMO and served as member of the

WMO Executive Council.

He served in the South African public service in Environment, Environmental Regulations,

and Environmental Quality and Protection, followed by a period in financial sector as Senior

Manager. Mr Lengoasa was for several years a teacher and a university senior lecturer in

Geography, environmental studies and atmospheric sciences.

Mr Lengoasa holds an Honours degree in Geography from Fort Hare University and Masters

Degrees in Geography (Climatology) and in Public and Development Management both from

Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg.

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Sarah Little

Executive & Communications Assistant, Gender Action

Sarah holds a BA in Political Science from American University and an MA in Democratic

Governance from the University of Cape Town. Her expertise lies in conducting analyses on

democracy and development in Sub-Saharan Africa. More recently she has worked with a

variety of organizations on issues of women’s rights in development. She now concentrates

on monitoring IFI investments in extractive industries and climate change at Gender Action,

an organization which monitors the activities of IFIs to promote gender justice.

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Jean-Patrick MARQUET

Director, Municipal and Environment Infrastructure

Jean-Patrick MARQUET is the Director of the Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure

department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The department

comprises some 50 bankers and specialists of municipal utilities covering urban transport,

district heating, water, wastewater and solid waste projects located in Eastern Europe, the CIS

and Turkey. The municipal department of the Bank has invested almost €5 billion across 300

projects in the region, culminating in a record year in 2011 with 39 projects signed for €596

million of direct EBRD investment in municipal utilities, both private and public sectors.

Jean-Patrick MARQUET joined the EBRD in January 2001 and worked till 2007 in the

Natural Resources sector covering oil and gas and mining projects before being appointed in

2008 as head of the Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure department. Before the

EBRD, he was a project finance specialist with Crédit Lyonnais in Paris and London. His

academic background includes an MSc in Management from the HEC school of management

and a master of laws from the Pantheon-Assas University in Paris.

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Dr. Stewart Maginnis

Global Director, Nature-Based Solutions Group, IUCN

Stewart is Global Director of IUCN’s Nature-based Solutions Group with over 25 years of

broad natural resource management, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development

experience, including extensive field work and national and international forest policy.

Stewart spearheaded the conceptual development of the forest landscape approach, which is

now reflected in many projects, programmes and policies. He is responsible for the strategic

and operational programme planning and the overall supervision of the eight IUCN

programmes whose primary focus is the human well-being/natural resource interface. In

addition, he is responsible for the overall coordination of IUCN’s cross-cutting networks on

Livelihoods, Food Security and Climate Change.

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Mr.Sherife Abdel Messih

CEO of Future Energy Corporation (FEC),

Sherife AbdelMessih is the CEO of Future Energy Corporation (FEC), the leading company

serving the renewable energy industry in the MENA region. Initially, Sherife built FEC as a

Research & Development startup designing disruptive solar energy technologies catered for

MENA, and then grew it into a renewable energy company with project development,

consulting and R&D divisions. He further grew the company's business outside MENA, into

the Americas, Europe and Asia. Sherife is also Chairman and CEO of EnerGen Global, a

holding company that develops and invests in its own solar power projects, exclusively in

markets that have reached grid parity.

Sherife is a passionate entrepreneur and played a pivotal role in building the entrepreneurial

ecosystem in Egypt through founding SPARK! Ventures. His work has created a talent

pipeline of high school students, college students and full time entrepreneurs; empowering

entrepreneurs across all age groups. In 2010 he was selected by Yahoo! as one of the top ten

social entrepreneurs in Egypt and the youngest on the list. In 2012 he was profiled by

Arabian Business magazine on their list of the 500 most influential people in the Middle East.

He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he was endowed with an Onsi

Sawiris full scholarship in addition to other prestigious awards and fellowships.

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Mr.WILBUR OTTICHILO

Member of Parliament for Emuhaya Constituency in Vihiga Country, Western Kenya

He was elected Member of Parliament for Emuhaya Constituency in Vihiga Country,

Western Kenya in 2008. Prior to becoming Member of Parliament, from 2002-2008 he was

Director General for the Regional Centre Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)

an affiliate institution of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

with the objectives of building capacity in Geo-information for Sustainable Development by

applying modern Remote Sensing Technologies.

As a Member of Parliament he is a Committee Member of the Education, Science and

Technology, a Parliamentary caucus on Renewable Energy and Climate Change. In the past

10 years in Parliament, he has introduced four Motions on: Science, Technology and

Innovation. He has worked with Civil Society Organizations (CSO), government agencies

and local communities to prepare a Climate Change Bill, tabled in the Parliament and being

discussed with key stake holders.

He will work on the Bill, when the Parliament opens next month on the 20th

November 2012,

to pursue the 2nd

and 3rd

readings of the Bill to be undertaken before being enacted into Law

for implementation. The Bill creates Authority to coordinate Climate Change issues in the

country and across relevant policies and sectors.

He has a PhD from the Institute of Geo-Information and Earth Sciences in the Netherlands, in

Environmental Science with focus on using Remote Sensing in Environmental Assessment

and Management.

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Mr. Padmanathan, a professional Civil Engineer with over 30 years of experience is the

President & CEO of ACWA Power, a company with a paid up capital of US$ 1.3 Billion

which within a period of 8 years has emerged as a leading developer of privately financed

power generation and desalinated water production plants in the GCC, MENA region,

Southern cone of Africa and Eastern Europe with a portfolio of assets to deliver 13,000 MW

and 2.4 million cum of water per day, assets of US$ 15.2 Billion in value.

An Engineering graduate of University of Manchester, United Kingdom Mr. Padmanathan

started his career with a British Consulting Engineering practice and through two mergers

arrived at Black & Veatch a major Global Engineering and Construction Company where on

his departure in 2005 he was a Vice President and Corporate officer.

While his early experience was in the delivery of infrastructure projects utilizing the

traditional model of government ownership and international development agency financing,

he has spent the last fifteen years on the development of privately financed power, water and

wastewater projects as Concessions, BOT, BOO and Utility Outsourcing models of service

delivery contracts.

In addition to his executive responsibilities at ACWA Power, he also serves on the board of

directors of several companies all serving the water and power sectors.

PADDY PADMANATHAN

President & CEO, ACWA Power

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YVONNE OCHOA-ROSELLINI -

Yvonne is CEO of Fundación Hogares, an NGO founded by INFONAVIT, Mexico’s largest

housing finance institution. Hogares rebuilds social capital in urban housing developments

reaching 70 thousand people in communities throughout Mexico over the past two years.

With 17 years of experience in strategic planning, finance and banking she is a management

consultant with Convixión, a firm she co-founded in 2007. She is also an independent

professional board member for companies in the housing and manufacturing sector.

Previously Yvonne was an executive at Mexico’s largest national financial services group,

BBVA Bancomer, as CFO for consumer finance, Head of Strategic Communications, Investor

Relations Officer, Institutional Sales Executive and Senior Equity Research Analyst.

Yvonne studied International Relations and an MBA at ITAM in Mexico City.

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François Rogers

Special Adviser, IUCN

François Rogers is Special Advisor to the IUCN Global Gender Office and is based in

London, where he is also founder and CEO of CatalySD Limited – 360 degrees sustainability.

He has been working with the IUCN Global Gender Team since 2008. Currently, his main

focus includes multilateral and international work, working with the various UN Conventions

and other strategic partners, national level implementation, communications, and involvement

in day-to-day planning and other activities.

François’s introduction to the gender world came through training in gender and climate

change. He was subsequently appointed as Communications Adviser to the Global Gender

and Climate Alliance (GGCA). His involvement in gender and development issues builds on

15 years of experience in sustainability that includes a career in the first democratic

Parliament of South Africa (Cape Town), being the Head of the Office of the South African

Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (Cape Town/Pretoria), member of the core

South African host-country team for the World Summit on Sustainable Development –

WSSD, Head of Program for the Seed Initiative (Geneva) and as Head of Communications

and Outreach for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility – GBIF (Copenhagen).

François has trained and built the capacity of various government delegates and sustainability

leaders around the world on gender and climate change, co-developed the first national

strategies and action plans on gender and climate change in various countries, has been

involved in the development of the UNCCD Gender Plan of Action, presented at several

high-level events and is a Project Board- and Steering Committee Member of the Global

Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA). He also authored several publications on gender and

sustainability.

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Dr. Rishi R. Sharma

Director General, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal

Dr. Rishi Sharma is currently the Director General of the Department of Hydrology and

Meteorology and Permanent Representative of Nepal with WMO.

Prior to this, Dr. Sharma was Deputy Director General of the Department of Hydrology and

Meteorology from 2009-2012. He has worked at the Department of Hydrology and

Meteorology since 2002 in various capacities. He was a Senior Divisional Meteorologist in

the Planning and Monitoring and Solar and Wind Data Sections, and Officer in Charge in the

Narayani Basin Office.

Prior to this, Dr. Sharma was a Remote Sensing Office from 1990 until 2002 in the Forest

Survey Division, Department of Forest Research and Survey in Nepal.

Dr. Sharma has a BSc and MSc in Physics from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

He also earned a Master Degree in Integrated Map and Geoinformation Production

specialization in Remote Sensing from the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and

Earth Sciences in the Netherlands. Dr. Sharma earned a PhD from the Norwegian University

of Science and Technology. His main research theme was Ultraviolet Radiation in Himalayan

region.

Dr. Sharma has led various research projects in Nepal and is the author of various

publications on climate change, forestry and remote sensing

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Bernadinus Steni

Steni is an environmental lawyer specializing in defending the rights of indigenous peoples in

Indonesia. For the past 10 years, he has been working on legislation to recognize land and

resource rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. Over the past 6 years he has

been specializing in forest and climate change and is actively involved in developing human

rights-based climate mitigation and REDD scenarios in his country. He has been a leading

expert in the development of Indonesia’s national REDD+ safeguard framework. The first

draft of the framework, to which he contributed extensively, is the result of intensive focus

group discussions and public consultations including government, private sector, NGOs and

community organizations.

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Josué Tanaka -

Turkey’s Clean Energy Initiative

Managing Director, Operational Strategy and Planning, Energy Efficiency and Climate

Change

Josué Tanaka is responsible for the EBRD operational strategy and planning function and,

since 2006, for leading its Energy Efficiency and Climate Change activities including the

formulation and implementation of the Sustainable Energy Initiative. This initiative aims at

scaling up energy efficiency and renewable energy financing in central and eastern Europe

and is currently active in 27 countries with cumulative EBRD investments of €8.8 billion.

Energy efficiency financing areas include large energy intensive industries, SMEs, buildings,

transport systems and municipal infrastructure. The EBRD operates both with direct

financing to companies and by supporting the development of energy efficiency financing by

local banks. Prior to EBRD, Mr Tanaka worked at the World Bank where he was Special

Assistant to the President and worked in different positions on strategic planning, tropical

forest conservation and environmental financing matters.

Mr Tanaka graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science in engineering

degree and holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology.

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Marion Verles

Executive Director | Nexus-Carbon for Development |

Marion joined french non-profit GERES in 2009 when she was tasked to design, set up and

launch Nexus, a non-profit cooperative of development organizations that support vulnerable

communities by scaling up successful climate-friendly projects. Nexus enables members to

share expertise and services, access technical assistance and international funding

opportunities such as carbon finance. Marion has successfully accomplished her mission as

Nexus now operates as a standalone entity, brings together 18 member organizations, and

operates a fully-fledged services platform and a set of financial mechanisms. Prior to setting

up Nexus, Marion gained experience in the corporate development team of Barclays Plc in

London where she worked on capital raisings and acquisitions. If you ask her about her years

in the City, she’ll say that there is no experience like the one that takes you deep inside the

world you are trying to change. Marion holds a Master of Science from EDHEC business

school and a Master of Public Management.

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Ms. LUCY WANJIRU

Lucy Wanjiru is a Programme Specialist working on Gender and

Environment with the Gender Team, Bureau of Development Policy,

UNDP, in New York. Her work involves designing and

implementing climate change adaptation and mitigation policy and

programmes, and providing technical support to mainstream gender

equality and women’s empowerment in environment programmes for

sustainable development.

She is providing support to activities of the Global Gender and Climate Change Alliance

(GGCA) - including advocacy, capacity building, and climate change finance – towards

facilitating gender equality in global, regional, and national climate change policy and

programmes.

Ms. Wajiru has worked in developing countries in various capacities. She was a socio

economic consultant in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation Reforms in Kenya and worked

for over ten years at the grassroots level as a Community Mobilizer and Trainer in Integrated

Water Resources Management with organizations such as the African Medical and Research

Foundation and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

Lucy holds an MA in Sustainable International Development, from the Heller School of

social policy and management, Brandeis University, and has a BA in Administration and

sociology from Moi University in Kenya.

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Jan Witte: -

KfW's Energy and Environment Team

Jan Martin Witte is a Senior Project Manager with KfW's Energy and Environment Team

based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is also a co-founder and fellow of the Global Public Policy

Institute (GPPi). He also serves as a non-resident fellow for the American Institute for

Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) of Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise

include global energy policy, international development, international organizations,

corporate social responsibility and transatlantic relations.

Jan Martin’s work experience includes consulting and research assignments at the Brookings

Institution, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). From June 1999 to June 2001 he

served as a research associate with the Global Public Policy Project, Washington, DC.

Between 2003 and 2010, Jan Martin served as associate director for GPPi in Berlin.

Jan Martin has published widely on issues of energy policy, international development, UN

reform, global governance, and transatlantic relations, most recently "Global Energy

Governance: The New Rules of the Game" (Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2010), "50

Jahre OPEC: Kartell zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht" (Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2010); and

"Transforming Development? The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in International

Development" (Berlin: GPPi 2008).

Jan Martin received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (European

Recovery Program Fellowship), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Academic

Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2003, he was the recipient of the Daimler-Chrysler Fellowship

for Transatlantic Affairs at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns

Hopkins University.

Jan Martin holds a PhD and MA in international relations and international economics from

the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He also

received a diploma in political science from the University of Potsdam.

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Cevdet Yılmaz

Minister of Development

Cevdet YILMAZ

Minister of Development

Cevdet Yılmaz was born in Bingöl on 1 April 1967.

He graduated from the Public Administration Department of Middle East Technical

University as top performer of his class. He received master’s degree from the International

Relations Department of Denver University in the US, and doctorate degree from the Politics

and Public Administration Department of Bilkent University.

He started his career as Assistant Planning Specialist at the Prime Ministry Undersecretariat

of State Planning Organization. Then he was appointed as Planning Specialist. He served as

the Director General for EU Relations at the State Planning Organization. He also served as a

member in the Monitoring and Steering Committee of Center for EU Education and Youth

Programs, National Agency, ATAUM and Sümerhalı Executive Board.

He was elected Bingöl Deputy in the general elections held on 22 July 2007 and entered the

Parliament. He served as member of Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission and

Chairman of Turkey Group of Inter-Parliamentary Union during the 23rd

Term of the

Parliament.

He was appointed as Minister of State in the 60th

Government on 01 May 2009.

Cevdet Yılmaz was elected as Bingöl Deputy again for the 24th

Term of the Parliament, and

was appointed as Minister of Development in the 61st Government.

He speaks English at advanced level. He is married, with two children.

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TANER YILDIZ –

MINISTER OF ENERGY

TANER YILDIZ

MINISTER OF ENERGY

Taner YILDIZ was born in Yozgat in 1962. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering

Department of Istanbul Technical University’s Electrical-Electronic Engineering Faculty. He

served as Member of Executive Board at Kayseri Electricity Generation Corp., and as

Member of Executive Board and General Manager at Kayseri and Environs Electricity

Distribution Corp. He was elected as Kayseri Deputy during the 22nd

Term of the Parliament.

Taner YILDIZ speaks English at advanced level. He is married, with four children.

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Dr. Paulo Nobre

Formal Education:

Post-Doc: Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions,

IRI/LDEO/Columbia University, NY, USA, 1999

Ph.D.: Meteorology, University of Maryland at

College Park, MD, USA, 1993

M.Sc: Meteorology, INPE, SP, Brazil, 1984

BS: Meteorology, University of São Paulo, SP,

Brazil, 1980.

Present Filiations:

INPE/CPTEC-CCST

Rodovia Presindente Dutra, Km 40

Cachoeira Paulista, SP, 12630-000, BRAZIL

paulo.nobre@cptec.inpe.br

Current Activities:

Professor, Graduate Program on Meteorology at INPE, SP, Brazil.

Professor, Graduate Program on Climate Change Program at INPE, SP, Brazil

Chief Scientist, Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modeling Group at INPE, SP, Brazil

President of the PIRATA Brazil National Committee

President of the PIRATA Resources Board

Member of:

Science Steering Committee of the PIRATA Project – PIRATA SSG

WMO Commission on Climatology – CCL

Recent publication list:

Nobre, P., and Coauthors, 2012: Climate simulation and change in the Brazilian Climate

Model. J. Climate, submitted.

Nobre, P., R. A. F. De Almeida, M. Malagutti, and E. Giarolla, 2012: Coupled

oceanatmosphere

variations over the South Atlantic ocean. J. Climate, 25, 6349-6358.

Nobre, P. ,2012: As origens das águas no Nordeste., in A questão da água no Nordeste

CENTRO DE GESTÃO E ESTUDOS ESTRATÉGICOS; AGÊNCIA

NACIONAL DE ÁGUAS: Brasilia. p. 31-45.

Pilotto, I., S. C. Chou, and P. Nobre, 2012: Seasonal climate hindcasts with Eta model

nested in CPTEC coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model.

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1-20.

Nobre, P., 2011: Mudanças Climáticas e desertificação: os desafios para o Estado

Brasileiro, in Desertificação e mudanças climáticas no semiárido brasileiro

R.d.C.C. Lima, A.d.M.B. Cavalcante, and A.M. Perez-Marin, Editors. INSA:

Campina Grande. p. 23-34.

Nobre, P., et al., 2011: Impacto das mudanças climáticas globais na hidrologia do

semiárido do Nordeste brasileiro para o final do século XXI, in Recursos

Hídricos em regiões áridas e semiáridas, S.d.S. Medeiros, et al., Editors. Instituto

Nacional do Semiárido: Campina Grande. p. 423-437.

Lacerda, F. F. and P. Nobre, 2010: Aquecimento global: conceituação e repercussões

sobre o Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física, 3, 1-7.

Nobre, P., M. Malagutti, D. Urbano, R. d. Almeida, and E. Giarolla, 2009: Amazon

deforestation and climate change in a coupled model simulation. J. Climate