In comparison to COP15 in Copenhagen (2009) there is much more optimism on the zero-carbon front, and a strong movement for a global renewably-powered economy. New legislations in energy efficiency and skyrocketing renewable energy targets by many countries are on the rise; and a global divestment campaign is urging financial and other institutions to divest […]
Geneviève Pons is Director of the WWF European Policy Office in Brussels. She is an honorary Director of the European Commission, where she started in 1989 as a member of the Environment Team in the Legal Service. During the last two mandates of Jacques Delors as President of the European Commission, she was in charge of legal and environment matters in his Cabinet; attending the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 on the Commission delegation.