Climate Change Commission chair Dr Rod Carr has been invited to join an elite 16-member UN group.
The United Nations secretary general António Guterres has asked New Zealand’s Dr Rod Carr to join an elite world group to look into climate change issues.
Guterres launched the expert world group to develop stronger and clearer standards for net-zero emissions pledges, including businesses, investors, cities and regions and to speed up their implementation.
The invitations to the group of 16 are in their personal capacities rather than as Government representatives.
Carr is chair of the Climate Change Commission, former chair of the board and once acting governor of the Reserve Bank of NZ, a director of the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce for 10 years and former vice-chancellor of the University of Canterbury.
The expert group’s recommendations for higher ambition and environmental integrity will address four areas:
• Current standards and definitions for setting net-zero targets;
• Credibility criteria used to assess the objectives, measurement and reporting of net-zero pledges;
• Processes for verification and accounting of progress towards net-zero commitments and reported decarbonisation plans;
• A roadmap to translate standards and criteria into international and national level regulations.
The group will be chaired by Canada’s former minister of environment and climate change.
Members include academics, business people, regulators and the former Governor of the People’s Bank of China.
