India
Lead Tracker - Leela Raina
Recently graduated from Shri Ram College of Commerce, with an Economics Honours degree Leela Raina also did an add-on course in Green Chemistry from Hindu College. Awarded the KPMG Foundation scholarship during her freshman year, she takes an active interest in dramatics, debating and fine arts and has founded a sustainable development society- PRAGATI at Delhi University that works on climate change, microfinance, rural development and women’s empowerment.
In school, she led a Silver-winning team for an Asia-wide NASA design project and in summer 2008, she interned with the CDM department in IL&FS Ecosmart. Her analysis on CDM in India was published in the November Issue of TERI’s flagship magazine – Terragreen. She has also worked with street children at an NGO in Chandigarh.
Leela loves to dance, sing and compete in field events. The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008, where she met Dr. Pachauri and other eminent leaders, served as fertile ground for inspiration. Last year she participated in the CAN International Equity Summit in Mahabalipuram and as an Agent of Change in the 2008 UNFCCC COP14.
This year after her learning experience and action research at the GTZ Summer school Hyderabad-Tirupati-Delhi on Sustainable Innovations in India she will be involved with plantation programs under the Carbon Neutral Program in association with Carbon Minus and UNEP as their National Convener.
Apart from civic media, policy at the UNFCCC really excites her and she would want to pursue climate policy and its advocacy seriously and leads the policy team at the Indian Youth Climate Network and lobbies with the government for better international and national policy frameworks.
Very recently she got selected as one of the Indian Journalists who would get the opportunity to fly over the Himalayas, see the real effects of climate change on glaciers and talk to local sherpas and scientists in Nepal as a part of the DFID climate road tour trip.
She is fun loving , full of energy and believes in the Gandhian principle of being the change you want to see in the world.
The Indian Delegation
Post Copenhagen the team has lost its highly skilled negotiators who will be deeply missed but now we will be tracking mostly ministry officials
Vijai Sharma, IAS - LEAD NEGOTIATOR
Mr Vijai Sharma, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1974. He is a science and law postgraduate. As a career bureaucrat, he has held several distinct positions and made invaluable contributions at both the State and Central levels. He has wide experience in matters relating to industry, agriculture and cooperatives, pollution control, energy, the environment, and forests, as well as law and justice. Before joining the MoEF as Secretary, he was Special Secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat.
R R Rashmi- Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests whose blog post from copenhagen you could find here.
http://adoptanegotiator.org/2009/12/14/r-r-rashmi-on-the-state-of-the-negotiations/
J M Mauskar
J. M. Mauskar, IAS serves as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests . Previously he had served as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India. Shri. Mauskar has held many responsible positions both in the Central and the State Goverment(s), last being Finance Secretary in Government of Meghalaya. Shri. Mauskar served as Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh Ltd., a subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. . He serves on the Boards of Oil India Ltd. He served as Director of Oil And Natural … Gas Corp. Ltd. since May 14, 1999. He serves as Chairman of Remuneration of Technology Induction through Alliances Committees and Member of Mumbai High Re-development Project, Policy & Planning, Health, Safety & Environment, Human Resource Management and Security Related issues Committees of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. Shri. Mauskar holds an M.Sc. in Physics and IAS Qualification.
and R K Sethi who I had profiled in Bonn last year -Member Secretary, The National CDM Authority -Designated National Authority (DNA); Ministry of Environment and Forests; Chairman, CDM Executive Board, UNFCCC Secretariat .
The profile can be found on http://adoptanegotiator.org/2009/06/07/profile-interview-r-k-sethi-key-officialindian-delegation/