Climate Change: From Learning to Action

Your Instructors

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  Maxx Diley

  Director, Climate Prediction and Adaptation, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  
  

  Prior to joining WMO, Maxx led the Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Team and was a policy and partnerships advisor at the United Nations Development Programme. He was previously a Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University in New York. Before that, he worked at the World Bank Disaster Management Facility and at the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. He has designed, managed and contributed to disaster and risk management programmes in Africa, Latin America and Asia, and has written numerous papers on disaster reduction and climate-related topics.

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  Motsomi Maletjane

  Team Leader, LDC Unit, National Adaptation Plans and Policy, Adaptation Programme, UNFCCC Secretariat
  
  

  Motsomi Maletjane is a Team Leader in the Adaptation Programme of the UNFCCC Secretariat, under the National Adaptation Plans and Policy Subprogramme. He works on matters relating to LDCs under the Convention and supports the work of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group on the national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs), the national adaptation plans (NAPs) and the LDC work programme. Prior to joining the Secretariat, Motsomi worked for the Government of Lesotho, supporting various areas of climate-related work, ranging from climate scenarios to development and implementation of climate change adaptation strategy.

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  Miguel Naranjo

  Programme Officer, Global Climate Action, UNFCCC Secretariat
  
  

  Miguel Naranjo is a Programme Officer with the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. With a background in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration, he worked as a process engineer and an environmental supervisor for a transnational corporation and later joined the climate change team of UN Environment in the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean. He joined the UN Climate Change Secretariat in 2011, where he has focused on capacity building for mitigation and carbon market mechanisms, and promoting climate action among the private sector and other stakeholders to meet the goals of the Paris Agreements and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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  Steven Stone

  Chief of Resources and Markets Branch, UN Environment
  
  

  Steven holds a PhD in Resource Economics from Cornell University and has more than 20 years of professional experience in environmental and natural resource management. As Chief of Branch, Steven directs a team dedicated to furthering the knowledge base, outreach and support to countries on environmental and resource economics as key components of economic, trade and investment policy. Some of the key flagships he has helped to incubate include the Green Economy Initiative, the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), and the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), among others.

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  Dr. Martin Frick

  Senior Director, Policy and Programme Coordination, UNFCCC Secretariat
  
  

  As Senior Director, Martin Frick oversees UNFCCC’s work supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and climate action.  He previously served as Director for Climate Change at UNFAO. He was the German representative for human rights and humanitarian affairs at the UN General Assembly and served as the European Union’s lead negotiator in the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council. As Ambassador to international organizations based in Germany, he helped build up the UN’s sustainability hub in Bonn. He holds a PhD in law and was a guest lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

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  Niclas Svenningsen

  Manager, Global Climate Action, UNFCCC Secretariat
  
  

  Niclas Svenningsen is the Manager for the Global Climate Action unit in the UNFCCC Secretariat. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing and strengthening approaches and strategies for catalysing climate action under, and in addition to, activities mandated by UNFCCC. He previously worked with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) where he was in charge of the climate-neutral strategy of the UN system, as well as for the implementation of UNEP’s programmes for sustainable buildings, urban development, and sustainable procurement. Niclas has a background in civil engineering and environmental law.