Keith Alverson is the Executive Director of the World Climate Research Program’s Climate and the Cryosphere Project. He splits his time between the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and his home in Ottawa, Canada. Keith was formerly the director of the UNEP International Environmental Technology Center in Osaka, Japan from 2016 to 2020, which focused on technological solutions to global waste management and climate change. Prior to that he served for five years as the Director of the Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch at UNEP Headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya, where he oversaw UNEP’s global portfolio of projects in climate change adaptation and ecosystem-based climate change mitigation as well as terrestrial and freshwater ecosystem management.
From 2004-2011, Keith was Head of Ocean Observations and Services at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, based in Paris, France, as well as director of the Global Ocean Observing System. Prior to 2004, he was Executive Director of the IGBP Past Global Changes (PAGES) project in Bern, Switzerland, coordinating global cooperation in paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental research.
Global Environmental Agreements: How They Can Benefit Small Island Developing States
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