János Pásztor
Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General on Climate Change, UN at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Biography
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Janos Pasztor (a Hungarian and a Swiss citizen) is Carnegie Council senior fellow and executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G).
He has over 35 years of work experience in the areas of energy, environment, climate change, and sustainable development. Before taking up his current assignment he was UN assistant secretary-general for climate change in New York under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Earlier, he was acting executive director for conservation (2014) and policy and science director (2012-2014) at WWF International. He directed the UNSG’s Climate Change Support Team (2008-2010) and later was executive secretary of the UNSG’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (2010-2012). In 2007 he directed the Geneva-based UN Environment Management Group (EMG). During 1993-2006 he worked, and over time held many responsibilities at the Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), initially in Geneva and later in Bonn.
His other assignments included: in the Secretariat of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit ’92); Stockholm Environment Institute; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Secretariat of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission); the Beijer Institute; and the World Council of Churches.
He has BSc and MSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Videos
Janos Pasztor: Is humanity's role to engineer the climate?
Ethics in Action & Climate Change, with Janos Pasztor, C2G2 Executive Director
Global Ethics Forum: The Ethics and Governance of Geoengineering with Janos Pasztor
Janos Pasztor: What is Carbon Dioxide Removal?
Janos Pasztor: What effect could COVID-19 have on the climate policy debate?
Janos Pasztor: The Need to Govern Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal
Janos Pasztor: Putting the Climate-Altering Technologies Discussion on the Agenda
A Discussion with Janos Pasztor: Pathways for Governing Climate Engineering
Janos Pasztor: What is Governance?
C2GTalk: An Introduction to the Series, with C2G Executive Director Janos Pasztor
Janos Pasztor: What is COVID-19 teaching us about our capacity to change?
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