Gatherings

Tuesday, January 27, 7:00 pm, in-person and via Zoom 

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868045125?pwd=SRKgU5wgZqWBRhKc1Bicqqi8KIpZWg.1
Location: Anacortes Senior Center

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Bridging Borders:
Cooperation for a Changing Climate

 

former Chief of the Energy and Climate Branch

of the United Nations Environment Program

 

Save the date! Our featured speaker will be Mark Radka!

 

Mark will share his experience working internationally on efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change, covering topics such as how negotiations between countries actually unfold, what happens after international agreements are reached, and the elements that make for successful cooperation, many of which apply to local approaches.

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Mark has over 30 years of professional experience in the field of environmental policy and management, most of it with UNEP. He has served as the Acting Deputy, as well as previously having fulfilled the functions of multiple management positions in the Division over the past several years.

 

Before that, he served for several years in UNEP’s Asia and the Pacific Office, where he managed industrial environmental management projects throughout Asia. Mark is particularly interested in technology transfer and the technology needs of developing countries and was a coordinating lead author of the IPCC Special Report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer.

 

Before joining UNEP, Mark supported domestic and international environmental programs with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the World Bank, mostly related to the phase-out of Ozone Depleting Substances and climate change. Mark started his career as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, where he was assigned to the Local Administration Department of the Thai Government’s Ministry of Interior.

 

Mark received a Master of Public Policy degree with a concentration in Environmental and Energy Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering (with an environmental engineering focus) from the University of California at Berkeley, and an S.B. in Civil Engineering from MIT.

We are so blessed that Mark now resides in Anacortes. He joined the board of Transition Fidalgo two years ago.