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UG senior lecturer granted British Chevening Fellowship Award

Nov 23, 2009 News

Director of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana, Dr. Paulette Bynoe, has been granted a British Chevening Fellowship to pursue a developmental course on the Economics of Climate Change at Cambridge University.
The prestigious Chevening Fellowship programme is aimed at mid-career professionals with several years’ experience who are in positions of leadership and influence.
The Economics of Climate Change course, is particularly high demanding, given the global importance of the consequences of climate change, is a flagship fellowship programme geared specifically to ensuring that learning can be applied upon return to the fellows’ home country.
Fellows will gain a background in environmental economics, understand the economic case for moving to a low-carbon global economy, and will work together to develop an understanding of the choice of policies that are needed to support a low climate risk economy.
The course will present the economics and politics of climate change in a way that is accessible and relevant to policy-makers’ interests, building on Sir Nicholas Stern ‘s review of the economics of climate change.
The 12-week course will be delivered by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership with the support of Wolfson College (Cambridge), the Department of Land Economy (Cambridge), the Tyndall Centre and Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs). The course starts in January 2010.
The 2010 course will focus on recent progress under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, which will have met in Copenhagen in December 2009.
The British High Commission hopes that Dr Bynoe’s attendance will further build UG’s expertise in this area and its ability to support and enhance the Government of Guyana’s efforts to develop national climate change and low carbon policies.
Dr. Bynoe is also involved in environmental education and training, environmental management and policy formulation at the international, regional and national levels.
She was a consultant for Policy Statement on Climate Change for the Commonwealth Ministers of Finance Meeting in Guyana, October 2007.
She also developed training curriculum on Disaster Preparedness for communities on the East Coast of Demerara and conducted training workshops for officers of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission among other accomplishments.

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