EYL Alumni meeting – Climate action: talking the talk and walking the walk

Daniela is Director of the Climate Service Center Germany and visiting professor at Leuphana University, Faculty of Sustainability. She serves as a member of the European Commission’s Mission Board on ‘Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation’ and was one of the coordinating lead authors of the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above preindustrial level and one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Additionally, she serves as the Chair of the German Committee for Sustainability and she is a member of several other committees. Daniela is also Editor-in-Chief of ‘Climate Services’, a scientific journal she founded together with the Elsevier publishing house.

Yui is part of the Global Sustainability Team at The Coca-Cola Company, leading on climate change, climate risk and resilience strategy. He also works on strategy development and disclosure. Yui has a passion for innovation in the space of climate change, packaging and sustainability. He has worked in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America and has worked in The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling system for 7 years. He is based in London with a background in Engineering from Princeton University.

Doug joined ClientEarth as General Counsel in 2017, where he is responsible for ClientEarth’s programmes and for guiding and expanding ClientEarth’s successful public interest law practice in the EU and around the world. Doug has 30 years of experience in environmental law and litigation in the United States, which have included serving as a staff attorney for Earthjustice in Alaska, as managing attorney for the Asheville office of the Southern Environmental Law Center, as the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School, and as counsel to a private law firm. He has litigated many cases involving forests and biodiversity, marine resources, endangered species, transportation and land use, and air and water pollution.

Artur is Director at the European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action. His work ranges from international and EU climate strategy to EU domestic legislative initiatives related to households, land transport, waste, agriculture and forestry. Artur has been the Vice-President of the UNFCCC Bureau for two years and Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, preparing the Paris Agreement. He also has experience in DG Development and DG Environment, where he worked on a wide range of environmental issues, particularly climate change in developing countries.