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Working to deliver meaningful results
Tom Bui is Director of Environment at Global Affairs Canada, and represents Canada on the Global Environment Facility’s governing body, the GEF Council. In an interview, he shared what most inspires him about working at the intersection of humanitarian, economic, and environmental action, and reflected on how his childhood experience as a refugee to Canada shaped his approach to work and life.
Which constituency do you represent at the GEF Council? What is your “day job”?
Addressing the climate crisis and learning from a pulse oximeter
Chizuru Aoki leads the Global Environment Facility’s engagement with international conventions and oversees its climate change work, including through the Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund. In an interview, she reflected on her career as an environmental engineer, researcher, manager, and negotiator, and shared candid insights from her family’s experience with COVID-19.
What does your role at the GEF entail?
Supporting solutions across sectors and silos
Ibrahima Sow leads the Global Environment Facility’s programming related to Africa, including the Great Green Wall Initiative that tackles desertification, land degradation, and climate change together. In an interview, he shared lessons from his work enabling countries to find, share, and scale up solutions to inter-related environmental challenges.
What is your role at the GEF, and what does this work entail?
'You don't need to be a biologist to save the planet'
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez became the Global Environment Facility’s fifth CEO and Chairperson in September 2020, after decades of working with the multilateral trust fund as a government minister and parks service director in Costa Rica. In an interview, he shared his hopes for the coming year and decade, and reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his first six months in a new job.
Investing in the environment for Lebanon's future
Nancy Khoury is an assistant to Lebanon’s operational and political focal points to the Global Environment Facility, coordinating the work of a regional constituency also including Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. In an interview, she reflected on her country’s efforts to ease pressure points on the environment and shared her hopes for her country and the planet.
What are the main environmental issues of concern to Lebanon?
Delivering paths to a sustainable recovery
Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann is Secretary General of the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM) and serves as France’s Alternate Council Member at the Global Environment Facility. In an interview, she reflected on the connections between biodiversity protection and climate change action and shared insights from France’s decades of experience supporting integrated solutions that prioritize both environmental protection and economic development in partnership with the GEF.
Laying the foundation for innovation at scale
Karin Kemper is the Global Director of Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy at the World Bank, and a member of the Global Environment Facility’s COVID-19 Task Force. In an interview, she reflected on the ways GEF financing has opened the door to innovative solutions to both environmental and development challenges and shared her advice to young people contemplating a career in the development and environment field (“go for it”).
What do you do for a living?
'It takes a village': lessons from Indonesia
Laksmi Dhewanthi is Indonesia’s Operational Focal Point to the Global Environment Facility and a Senior Advisor to the Indonesian Minister of Environment and Forestry. In an interview, she reflects on the role nature-based solutions can play in an inclusive green recovery, and the need to take care of forest and indigenous communities, women, and young people in a difficult time.
What are the most important environmental issues facing Indonesia?
'Environmental diplomacy is very important'
Dr. Nagulendran Kangayatkarasu is Malaysia’s Operational Focal Point to the GEF and Deputy Secretary-General in the Ministry of Environment and Water. In an interview, he reflected on why both international cooperation and individual action are needed to confront plastic waste and protect endangered species, from pollinators to apex predators.
What are the most pressing environmental concerns in Malaysia?
'Incremental steps can lead to lasting changes'
Sara El Choufi studied as a biologist in Lebanon before deciding to dedicate herself full-time to bridging the gap between scientific research and environmental policy. In an interview, the analyst at the GEF Independent Evaluation Office reflected on the importance of impartial reviews of environmental projects’ performance and shared her optimism borne out of observation.
What is the IEO and what does it do?
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