Brazil announced on Monday the presentation of Thelma Krug’s candidacy for the presidency of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the 2023-2028 cycle.
In the joint State Department communiqué with the Ministries of Environment, Science and Technology, Education and Agriculture, the Brazilian government highlighted the fact that Thelma Krug is a mathematician from Roosevelt University in Chicago and has a PhD in space statistics from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
If elected, she will be the first woman and Hispanic to hold the position.
Thelma Krug is currently one of the three Vice Presidents of the IPCC and in Brazil she served as Secretary (Deputy Minister) for Science and Technology (2001-2003) and for the Environment (2007-2008).
Founded in 1988 and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the IPCC is the body responsible for evaluating science related to climate change and for mobilizing scientists in negotiations such as those that led to the Kyoto Protocol ( 1997) and Paris (2015).
Source: DN
