The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Quamrul Chowdhury
An Exclusive The Weekly Anthropocene Interview
Quamrul Chowdhury is an economist from Bangladesh who has served as the Lead Climate Negotiator for the UN Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group since 1990.
A lightly edited transcript of an exclusive interview with him follows. This writer’s questions and remarks are in bold, Mr. Chowdhury’s responses are in regular type. Bold italics are clarifications and extra information added after the interview.
Hi, Mr. Chowdhury, thank you so much for joining us. To start off, could you give our readers a sense of your personal story, your history and leadership on climate change diplomacy? I know you’ve been a lead climate negotiators for the LDCs since 1990-how did that come about? What have the decades since then been like?
I have been in this process since the beginning of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, since the Rio conventions in 1992. I was involved in the crafting of the Rio convention’s biodiversity conventions, desertification co…
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