CDM Board elects Chair and Vice-Chair for 2012

This news is from the 66th meeting of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism, which opened today in Bonn, Germany. Maosheng Duan of China and Martin Hession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will serve as Chair and Vice-Chair of the CDM Executive Board, respectively, until the first meeting of the Board in 2013. Mr. Duan, who joined the Board in 2010 and served as its Vice-Chair in 2011, is a Professor at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University. Mr. Hession, who has served on the Board since 2007 and served as Chair in 2011, is an official at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom. For live and on-demand webcast please go to <https://cdm.unfccc.int/Meetings/MeetingInfo/DB/1J8ZD94N7SROT03/view>