Dr. Erik Solheim,World Resources Institute
15:00, April 12
No.2 Leture Hall, Dewang Library
Erik Solheim is a well-known global leader on environment and development.
He served as Norwegian minister of Environment and International Development from 2005-2012. During that period, he initiated the global program for conservation of rainforests and brought through game changing National legislation - among them the Biodiversity Act and legislation to protect Oslo city forests. He brought Norwegian development assistance to 1%, the highest in the world.
Erik was the Executive Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (the main body of world donors) from 2012-2016 and Executive Director of UN Environment from 2016 to 2018.
Currently he is senior adviser at World Resources Institute and President of the Belt and Road Green Development Institute in Beijing.
