Global Network for Climate Solutions

"The Global Network for Climate Solutions (GNCS), with generous support from the Planet Heritage Foundation and the Skoll Global Threats Fund, seeks to inform future international climate negotiations by grounding them in shared research focused on concrete solutions and actions. "

Team

Accessed November 2011:

• Jeffrey D. Sachs, Lead Investigator
• Shiv Someshwar, Adaptation Board Chair
• Scott Barrett, Mitigation Board Chair
• Kye Baroang, Adaptation Board Coordinator.
• Kate Brash, Mitigation Board Coordinator

Adaptation Board

Accessed November 2011:

• Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources Institute, Washington DC, USA
• Mihir Bhatt, Director, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad, India
• Rizaldi Boer, Director, Center for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Bogor Agriculture University, Bogor, Indonesia
• David Bresch, Director, Sustainability and Emerging Risk Management, Swiss Re. Zürich, Switzerland
• Maxx Dilley, Policy Advisor, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP, Geneva, Switzerland
• Adrian Fernandez-Bremauntz, President, National Institute of Ecology, Mexico City, Mexico
• Anne Hammill, Project Manager and Researcher, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland
• Madeleen Helmer, Director, Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Pavel Kabat, Chair of Earth System Science & Climate Change Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
• Michael Mueller, Visiting Professor, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Rosamond Naylor, Director, Program on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, California, USA
• Anthony Okon Nyong, Head of Unit, Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, African Development Bank, Côte d’Ivoire
• Youba Sokona, Executive Secretary, Sahara & Sahel Observatory, Tunis, Tunisia
• Ulric Trotz, Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize
• Laurence Tubiana, Director, Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France
• Helga Weisz, Chair of Research Domain II: Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
• Shiv Someshwar (Chair), International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, USA

Mitigation Board

Accessed November 2011:

• Barbara Buchner, Director, Climate Policy Initiative-Venice, Venice, Italy
• Pantelis Capros, Professor of Energy Economics and Operation Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
• Carlo Carraro, Professor of Environmental Economics and Econometrics, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Venice, Italy
• William Chandler, Adjunct Senior Associate, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; President, Transition Energy
• Robertus Dellink, Senior Economist, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Development Division, OECD Environment Directorate, Paris, France
• Jae Edmonds, Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Maryland, USA
• Sam Fankhauser, Principle Research Fellow, Grantham Institute, London, UK; Member, Committee on Climate Change, London, UK
• Cameron Hepburn, Senior Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford, UK
• Henry Jacoby, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA
• Gernot Klepper, Professor, Kiel Earth Institute, Kiel, Germany
• Bo Kong, Professorial Lecturer of Energy, Resources, and Environment and Director of the Global Energy and Environment Initiative (GEEI), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Maryland, USA
• Ray Kopp, Director, Center for Climate and Electricity Policy, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., USA
• Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
• Johan Rockstrom, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• Laurence Tubiana, Director, Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France
• Jacob Werksman, Program Director, Institutions and Governance Program, World Resource Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
• Mitsutsune Yamaguchi, Project Professor, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Contact

URL: http://www.thegncs.org/