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Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/23/2021 10:52:54AM Via Free Access Xii Standing up for a Sustainable World Contributors Monica Araya is the Transport Lead within the COP26 Climate Champions Team. Her work focuses on accelerating the transition to zero-emission road transportation with a strong focus on coalition building and demand acceler- ation. She has founded several initiatives in Latin America to engage leaders in government, business and civil society, including Costa Rica Limpia. She has a doctorate in Environmental Management from Yale University and hosts a podcast on climate, technology and science. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at University of California, Merced. She graduated from Asmara University, Eritrea and received her PhD from UC Berkeley. Professor Berhe is a soil scientist and leader on scientific issues involving soil, climate change, and equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education. She is a member of the inaugural class of the New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and Past Chair of the US National Committee on Soil Science at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Michel Berry has been Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (1981–2008), Director of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion at École Polytechnique (1975–91), founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Gérer et Comprendre (1985–2015), member of the International Programs Committee, American Academy of Management (1994–2002), and is founder and director of the École de Paris du management (1993–present). Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois are three students at École Polytechnique. They were able to join this prestigious engineering school after two years of intensive classes in maths and physics. They got to know each other as neighbours on campus and through their weekly boxing matches! They chose to get involved in the school’s sustainable development asso- ciation in their desire to understand and commit to ecological issues. This breeding ground was conducive to the emergence of a reflection on their role as students and future workers. Dominique Bureau works at the French Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition. He currently chairs its Economic Council for Sustainable xi Claude Henry, Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern - 9781800371781 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/23/2021 10:52:54AM via free access xii Standing up for a sustainable world Development and its Green Tax Commission. He is also Chairman of the French Authority for Official Statistics and a lecturer at the École Polytechnique, in charge of the steering committee of the Chair for Sustainable Development. Camila Bustos graduated from Brown University with honours in Environmental Studies and International Relations, where she studied inter- national climate change policy. After university, she worked as a researcher at Colombian-based NGO Dejusticia, researching issues related to business and human rights, climate-induced displacement, and the human rights movement. She is a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and a second-year law student at Yale Law School. Camila is interested in working at the intersection of climate change and human rights litigation. Bobby Chan, this long-haired, music-loving environmental lawyer, leads one of the world’s most effective direct-action eco-vigilante organizations. Inspired by their Catholic faith, he and a dozen other colleagues enforce con- servation laws that usually go ignored by local police, environmental officers and coastguards. They confiscate chainsaws from loggers, boats from illegal fishermen and guns from poachers. Several of his friends have died in this campaign, but he believes that radical action is essential. Susan Clayton is Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She has written or edited six books, including Psychology and Climate Change (2018). Her PhD in Social Psychology is from Yale University. Her research focuses on the human relationship with nature, how it is socially constructed, and how it can be utilized to promote environmental conservation. She is a lead author on the upcoming Sixth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Philippe Cury is a senior scientist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France, working in marine ecology. He is the President of the Scientific Council of the Monaco Institute of Oceanography. He has been working in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, California, South Africa and France to analyse the effect of climate on fisheries and how to implement the ecosystem approach to fisheries. He has published more than 150 articles in the main international journals and has received several scientific achievements and awards. Anneliese Depoux leads the Centre Virchow-Villermé, a French-German research centre for Public Health, with a branch in Paris – Université de Paris – and another one in Berlin – Charité Universitätsmedizin. The Centre has pio- neered work on the health impacts of climate change and is widely recognized as a European hub for research on this emerging topic. Dr Depoux is herself a leading voice in the communication of these issues to the general public: she Claude Henry, Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern - 9781800371781 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/23/2021 10:52:54AM via free access Contributors xiii founded the 4C-Health research consortium to foster this approach, and she is a member of The Lancet Countdown initiative, the Centre des Politiques de la Terre, and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University. Catharina Dyvik is an associate at SYSTEMIQ and Programme Manager of the Blended Finance Taskforce, which seeks to accelerate mobilization of investment for emerging markets’ sustainable and resilient infrastructure. She is co-author of a number of Taskforce publications such as Better Finance, Better World and Infra 3.0: Better Infrastructure, Better World. Prior to joining SYSTEMIQ, she worked for six years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in various roles and geographies, focusing primarily on the financing of environmental improvement projects as well as energy and resource efficiency. She is currently advising a number of financial institutions on sustainable finance. Both artists, musicians and activists, Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba Günal gave up an urban consumer life and moved into the forests of Antalya, where they built a home from natural materials. Their creative and brave opposition to a cascade of hydro-electric dams led to the creation of a new protected area. Living their values, they have become symbols of environmental defence at a time when the Turkish government has ramped up infrastructure projects. Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano is a lawyer from the Universidad de Los Andes, with minors in Journalism and Literature. She has worked as a political and legal advisor at Colombia’s Congress, where she focused on environmental justice policy-making. She has also worked as a researcher at the NGO Dejusticia, where she led litigation cases on climate change and participation in environmental matters. She is currently studying for Master of Public Administration in Development Practice at Columbia University, USA. She is interested in developing economic tools for environmental protection. François Gemenne is a specialist in environmental geopolitics and migration dynamics at the University of Liège, where he is a Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) senior research associate and the Director of the Hugo Observatory. He also heads the Observatory on Defence and Climate of the French Ministry of Defence. He also lectures on climate change and migra- tion policies in various universities, including Sciences Po Paris and the Free University of Brussels. As a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), his research deals with environmental and migration governance. Alain Grandjean is a graduate of École Polytechnique and ENSAE Paris, and holds a PhD in Environmental Economics. He is co-founder and partner of Claude Henry, Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern - 9781800371781 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/23/2021 10:52:54AM via free access xiv Standing up for a sustainable world Carbone 4, a climate strategy consulting firm. He is Chairman of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation. He has co-chaired several official missions and is co-author of several books and hosts the blog ‘Chroniques de l’anthropocène’. Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School in New York City. Emmanuel Guérin is the Executive Director for International Affairs at the European Climate Foundation. Emmanuel also serves as the Director of the International Climate Politics Hub. Before joining the ECF, he worked for the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, as Special Advisor to France’s Climate Change Ambassador and led the drafting team for the Paris Agreement. Emmanuel taught and researched at Sciences Po, Columbia University, and the London School of Economics. Sophie Handford is the founder of School Strike 4 Climate NZ and coor- dinated the movement alongside others during its first year. She graduated from Kāpiti College in 2018 and has now gone on to become New Zealand’s youngest elected council member on the Kāpiti Coast District Council. She is determined to be able to say she has done everything in her power to create a more beautiful world for generations to come. Geoffrey Heal is a professor at Columbia Business School, noted for his work on environmental and resource economics and economic theory. He chairs the board of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, is a member of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, sits on the advisory board of the Environmental Defense Fund and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has written 18 books. His latest, Endangered Economies, sets out the economic case for environmental conservation. Stephen B. Heintz is President and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). He set the path to align the Fund’s financial investments with its mission, resulting in its 2014 divestment from fossil fuels.
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