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Grenada's Former Environment Minister to Become UN Climate Secretary
The former environment minister of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, Simon Stiell, will be the new UN climate chief. The office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced today in New York that Stiell has been appointed to succeed Patricia Espinosa of Mexico, who held the post from July 20216 to July 16 this year.
Simon Stiell was appointed as the new UN climate chief. / Picture: © UNclimatechange / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
The appointment was endorsed by the Bureau of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. The UN Climate Change Secretariat is based in Bonn, Germany. Simon Stiell will now be the head of the UNFCCC secretariat.
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