John Ashton
John Ashton is Founding Director of environmental think tank E3G and Special Representative for Climate Change (Climate Change Ambassador) of the UK Foreign Secretary. He has undertaken the latter role since 2006 on secondment from E3G, where he had been Chief Executive since its inception. [1]
After the UK coalition government took office in 2010 Foreign Secretary William Hague announced Ashton's reappointment in June 'for the year ahead'. Ashton is working closely with Hague in support of the negotiations in the build up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of 2010.[2]
Background
Biographical Information
According to his E3G biography in 2009: 'John is one of a new generation of diplomats equally at home in the worlds of foreign policy and green politics. Before moving outside government to establish E3G, John had a distinguished career in the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including founding and leading its Environment Policy Department. Member of the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding. He is a steering committee member of Climate Care and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Climate Institute, Washington DC; the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Climate Change Capital.'[3]
Resources
Notes
- ↑ E3G John Ashton appointed UK Special Representative for Climate Change, press release, 8 June 2006] (accessed 14 September, 2010).
- ↑ Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Foreign Secretary appoints climate change Special Representative , press release, 22 June 2010],(accessed 14 September, 2010).
- ↑ E3G, "John Ashton", Profile of John Ashton at E3G homepage. (accessed 13/02/09).
