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It's official! The high level panel on the #CDM policy dialogue will release its recommendations on 11 September http://bit.ly/JTbuvQ

CDM: Panel Members

Chair

Valli Moosa

Chairman of the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa, Former Environment Minister of South Africa

Vice-Chair
Joan MacNaughton

President of the Energy Institute, Executive Chair of Energy and Climate Policy Assessment, World Energy Council, Global Advisor Sustainable Policies, Alstom, United Kingdom

Panel members (in alphabetical order):

Luciano Coutinho

President of the Brazilian Development Bank, Brazil

Maggie L. Fox

President and CEO of The Climate Reality Project, formerly known as the Alliance for Climate Protection, United States of America

Ross Garnaut

Distinguished professor of economics at Australian National University, Climate Change Advisor to the Australian Government until June 2011, Australia

Prodipto Ghosh

Distinguished Fellow at The Energy & Resources Institute, Former Secretary to Ministry of Environment and Forests, India

Yolanda Kakabadse

President of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Former Minister of Environment, Ecuador

Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Zimbabwe, Former AWG-LCA chair, Zimbabwe

Paul Simpson

CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project, United Kingdom

Nobuo Tanaka

The Institute of Energy Economics, Former President of International Energy Agency, Japan

Changhua Wu

Greater China Director of The Climate Group, China

CDM: CDM Policy Dialogue

The panel has been established to conduct a dialogue on the past and future of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It consists of distinguished policy makers and representatives of civil society and business who will engage a wide range of stakeholders through meetings and studies to gain a full and unbiased picture of the operations, benefits and shortcomings of the CDM.

The aim of the CDM policy dialogue, which was launched by the UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and the Chair of the CDM Executive Board Martin Hession at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban in 2011, is to take stock of the lessons learned implementing the CDM and recommend how to position the mechanism going forward.