Hedegaard joins new UN panel

By Simon Taylor - 10.08.2010 / 11:16 CET

Ban Ki-moon appoints European climate commissioner to new panel on sustainability.

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PANEL MEMBERS

Among the members of the new panel are Gro Harlem Brundtland, Han Seung-soo, Yukio Hatoyama, Luisa Dias Diogo and Kevin Rudd, the former prime ministers of Norway, South Korea, Japan, Mozambique and Australia, respectively, as well as David Thompson, the current prime minister of Barbados. They will be joined by three current or former environment ministers: Julia Carabias of Mexico, Cristina Narbona Ruiz of Spain and Jairam Ramesh of India. (Hedegaard is also a former environment minister, of Denmark.)

Other serving government officials are Sheikh Abdallah Bin Zayid Al Nahayan, the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates; Ali Babacan, the deputy prime minister of Turkey; Micheline Calmy-Rey, the Swiss foreign minister; and Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the UN.

Other panel members are Alexander Bedritsky, an aide to the Russian president on climate change, Hajiya Amina Az-Zubair, an adviser to the Nigerian president on the Millennium Development Goals, Zheng Guogang, director of the China Meteorological Administration, and Lawrence Balsillie, chairman of the Centre for International Governance Innovation.