CDM Board elects Chair and Vice-Chair for 2013

This news is from the 71st meeting of the Executive Board of the clean development mechanism, which opened today in Bonn, Germany. Peer Stiansen of Norway and Hugh Sealy of Barbados will serve as Chair and Vice-Chair of the CDM Executive Board, respectively, until the first meeting of the Board in 2014. Mr. Stiansen, an economist who joined the Board in 2009, is a senior advisor in the Ministry of Environment, Norway. Mr. Sealy, an environmental scientist and chemical engineer who has served on the Board since 2008, is a Professor at St. George’s University in Grenada. The new Chair and Vice-Chair take over from Maosheng Duan of China and Martin Hession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, respectively.