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Particular qualifications to be a Chair of IUCN Commissions:
I have served the IUCN for many years in various contexts and understand the Union, its structure and objectives very well. Through my work for the IUCN WCEL, the Climate Change Task Force and the Academy of Environmental Law, I have built a large network within the Union, complemented by my global network worldwide through my academic and governmental work. I think that my wide-ranging expertise in the field of environmental law, as well as my large networks will be very beneficial to the WCEL. They will help to increase its member base and thereby spread environmental law knowledge to all regions, and support the WCEL to function as the leading global network of environmental lawyers. Through my work as project coordinator at the Excellence Center at the University of Oslo as well as for the Norwegian Ministry for the Environment, I have broad experience in project management, planning, administration and implementation, as well as fund raising and financing. I am focused, dedicated, diplomatic, engaged and I like to work with people with different backgrounds and opinions. My hope is to support, through the advancement of the environmental rule of law by the WCEL, the role of the Union in bringing about the urgently necessary transformation towards an environmentally sustainable world.
Experience in fields of concern to IUCN:

Dr. Christina Voigt is a renowned expert in international environmental law. She has a PhD in Law and is professor at the University of Oslo. She is passionate about and has dedicated her career to legal issues of forest protection, nature and biodiversity conservation, climate change, environmental multilateralism, and sustainability. Over the last 20 years, Professor Voigt has taught and published widely on these topics. In 2009, she was awarded the inaugural Environmental Scholarship Prize (Junior) of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law for the intellectual influence and international significance of her work and for the enhancement of collaboration among persons from different institutions and regions. For more than 15 years, Professor Voigt has been an active member of the IUCN WCEL. Since 2017, she has been the chair of its Climate Change Specialist Group. She is also a member of the IUCN Climate Change Task Force. She chaired the organising committee of the 14th Annual Colloquium (2016) of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in Oslo and co-edited its proceedings Courts and the Environment (EEP, 2018). For the last 10 years, she also worked as the principal legal adviser for the Government of Norway in the UN climate negotiations, inter alia, as Norway’s lead negotiator on the protection of forests in developing countries (REDD+). Currently, she supports Norway in the negotiations of the post 2020-Framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity. For more information, please see: www.christinavoigt.net

Acceptance of Nomination
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Manifesto
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