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NI/Ireland climate advocate speaks at UN climate change conference

NI/Ireland climate advocate speaks at UN climate change conference

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On Thursday, 6 November 2008, the UN Association of the UK hosted a one-day conference on climate change in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Climate Challenge equipped 120 delegates with practical ideas for reducing individual CO2 emissions, evaluating government climate policy, and taking stock of progress in UN-led negotiations towards a strengthened global climate deal. As part of the conference, one of our NI/Ireland Challenge Europe advocates, Claire Hanna, was given the opportunity to talk about the British Council’s international climate change programme and more specifically about her group’s ambitious electric car proposal, ‘Project Better Place – Ireland’. Her presentation was both lively and informative and tremendous interest and enthusiasm was generated among the delegates. Well done, Claire!

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Josephine Gustafsson - Josephine is a curious, ambitious and open-minded person who enjoys new experiences. With a background in Political science, she is currently undertaking an interdisciplinary MSc programme in “Environmental Management and Economics” at the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University. Josephine has worked on international projects focused on environmental issues and CSR in South Africa, Vietnam and Peru. Most recently Josephine worked as a project coordinator at Fairtrade Sweden focusing on raising awareness aboiut labour rights. She is passionate about enabling knowledge-sharing between individuals, stakeholders, researchers and countries regarding environmental issues. Josephine’s ambition as a Climate Advocate is to build awareness on an individual level to enable people to contribute to a social change. She will focus on providing relevant solutions that can be used by policy makers, corporations and civil society, so that we can make a joint effort in enabling a low carbon society.

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