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Introducing New Speakers of Climate Change Mitigation Working Group: Kirsten Orschulok and Kundan Burnwal |
Ms. Kirsten Orschulok is advisor for climate change mitigation policies including NDC, MRV, international climate negotiations and long-term strategies with the Thai-German Climate programme since 2018 in Thailand. She gained enhanced knowledge on the topics during her work with the BMU as seconded policy advisor with the German delegation for the international climate negotiations for 2 years. In this position she was in charge for the Partnership for Transparency under the Paris Agreement (PATPA) and other global initiatives as CBIT, ICAT and overseeing IKI projects related to MRV, NDC and Enhanced Transparency Framework. In the TUEWAS region she worked together with the colleagues in India, the Philippines and Viet Nam, especially during her time in the Information Matters project which supported selected countries in preparing the first Biennial Update Reports (BUR) for submitting to the UNFCCC secretariat.
Contact
kirsten.orschulok@giz.de
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Mr. Kundan Burnwal Burnwal is a climate change mitigation policy and carbon market expert with more than twelve years of experience and a comprehensive knowledge on development, implementation and evaluation of projects on climate change, carbon markets and forestry. He is currently working as a technical advisor – Climate Change at GIZ India in the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Programme and is extensively involved and leading some of the work on carbon markets, climate change mitigation and forestry. He has authored and led the development of an internationally approved REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) methodology, first from South Asian region, and several Clean Development Mechanism projects in various sectors. In 2013 he authored a book titled ‘Air Pollution Abatement Through Trees and Subsequent Greenbelt Development’. He has a master’s degree in Environmental Management from Asia's premier Forestry Institute, the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, India.
Contact
kundan.burnwal@giz.de
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