Pepetua Election Latasi is a Tuvaluan civil servant. She is the Director for Climate Change and Disaster Coordinator under the Office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu.[1] Her position involves working with the climate change policy of Tuvalu and serving as the country's representative in climate change negotiation abroad.[2]
Latasi began her career in Tuvalu's Department of Environment, where she worked for ten years before becoming Director of Department of Climate Change and Disaster.[2] After temporarily taking a break from this work, she obtained an undergraduate degree in climate change policy and environment management in 2008. She later chaired the United Nations Least Developed Countries Expert Group, a twelve-member committee established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,[3] and co-chaired the Executive Committee on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage[4] with Shereen D'Souza of the United States.[5] At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, she served as the Chief Negotiator for Tuvalu.[4]
References
edit- ^ "National Climate Funds an Opportunity for Countries to Manage Climate Finance" (Press release). UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji. 5 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Meet Pepetua: a role model for women in Tuvalu". Adelaide: Scope Global. 4 December 2018.
- ^ "Pacific Women in Climate Change - meet Pepetua Latasi, Tuvalu". Paris: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. 5 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Tuvalu Chair of UN Loss and Damage Committee". Doha: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. 5 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017.
- ^ Pepetua Latasi; Scheren D'Souza (27–29 July 2016). "Technical meeting on Migration, Displacement and Human Mobility" (PDF). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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