THE COMMISSION
Criteria
Members of the Climate Overshoot Commission were chosen based on three criteria:
1 / Eminent
Commissioners’ authority and expertise underlines the urgency of this conversation.
2 / Global
Multiple perspectives are essential to create a strategy that works for people across the planet. Commissioners come from diverse backgrounds, with a majority from the Global South.
3 / Independent
The Commissioners deliberate as individual experts, not representing institutions or corporations.
Muhamad Chatib BASRI
Former Minister of Finance of Indonesia
Jamshyd N. GODREJ
Chairman of the board of Godrej & Boyce and of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India
Agnes KALIBATA
UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the Food Systems Summit; President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Rwanda
Laurence TUBIANA
CEO of the European Climate Foundation; former Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21 of France
Frances BEINECKE
President Emerita, Natural Resources Defense Council; board member, World Resources Institute, United States
Arancha GONZÁLEZ
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, former Foreign Minister of Spain
Hina Rabbani KHAR
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
XUE Lan
Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor and Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, China
Kim CAMPBELL
Canada's 19th Prime Minister, Founding Member of Club de Madrid
Mahamadou ISSOUFOU
Former President of Niger Republic, President of Issoufou Mahamadou Foundation
Anote TONG
Former President of the Republic of Kiribati