In accordance with Decision 4/CMA.4, para. 7, two co-chairs for the Mitigation Work Programme are appointed by the Chairs of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation, one from a developed country Party and one from a developing country Party, to serve every two years.
The Chairs of the subsidiary bodies, have appointed Angela Churie Kallhauge (Sweden) and Gao Xiang (China) as the co-chairs for the Sharm el-Sheikh mitigation ambition and implementation work programme for 2025–2026.
Credit: Angela Churie Kallhauge
Angela Churie Kallhauge
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Angela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President, Impact at Environmental Defense Fund where she overseas the global strategies and partnerships.
She joined EDF from the World Bank where she served as the head of the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) for five years. Before that she was at the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked for 14 years on climate change, energy and development issues.
During her time at the Swedish Energy Agency, she worked on carbon market development issues, including portfolio development and capacity building in developing countries. She also served as the EU negotiator on adaptation and resilience issues under the UNFCCC for close to a decade and represented Sweden in the Adaptation Fund Board where she led the work on accreditation for direct access.
Angela also draws experience from the International Renewable Energy Agency, where she spent a couple of years leading the work to develop a climate change work program that places renewable energy action as a key part of climate change strategies.
Prior to her engagement at the Swedish Agency, Angela spent close to a decade working at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Zimbabwe and Kenya with civil society organizations on climate, energy and development policy.
Angela holds a MSc in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure, a Licentiate Degree (teknologie licenciat) in Urban Studies from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a BSc in Physics from University of Nairobi.
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Gao Xiang
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Dr. GAO Xiang, professor, Division Director of International Policy Research, National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), China. He received his Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Fudan University in 2008. Dr. Gao’s research interest includes energy-related environmental and climate change policies, global climate governance and multilateral environmental agreement. He has led more than 20 research projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Fund of China etc. He has co-authored six books and around 40 papers.
Dr. Gao has participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation since 2009, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiation since 2019 and Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment since 2024 as a member of the Chinese delegation. Dr. Gao served as co-facilitator/co-chair for the development of modalities, procedures and guidelines for the enhanced transparency framework under Paris Agreement, as well as the guidance for their operationalizing, for the Structured Expert Dialogue under the second periodic review under UNFCCC, for the negotiation on biodiversity and climate change etc. Dr. Gao served as alternate member of Kyoto Protocol from 2014-2021, and has served as member of Consultative Group of Experts since 2023.
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