United Nations Photo

Headline Secretary-General and High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability

Caption Description Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (front, centre) poses for a group photo with members of the newly-launched High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, flanked by the Panel’s co-chairs, Tarja Halonen (left), President of Finland, and Lindiwe Zulu of South Africa. Members pictured in the first row (from left): Connie Hedegaard, European Union Commissioner for Climate Action; Micheline Calmy-Rey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland; Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister for Environment and Forests; Kevin Rudd, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia; Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minster of Turkey; Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the UN; Sheikh Abdallah Bin Zayid Al Nahayan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates; and Torgny Holmgren, Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department for Development Policy at Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Back row (from left): Alexander Bedritsky, the Russian Federation’s Special Envoy for Climate and President of the World Meteorological Organization; Hajiya Amina Az-Zubair, Senior Special Advisor to the President of Nigeria on the MDGs; Han, Seung-soo, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Global Green Growth Institute; Luisa Dias Diogo, Member of Parliament of Mozambique; Selwin Charles Hart, Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Barbados to the UN; Yukio Hatoyama , Member of the House of Representatives of Japan; Gro Harlem Brundtland , former Prime Minister of Norway; Julia Carabias, former Secretary of the Environment of Mexico; Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team; Cristina Narbona Ruiz, former Environment Minister of Spain; James Laurence Balsillie, Chair of Canada’s Centre for International Governance Innovation; and Zheng Guoguang, Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration.

Unique Identifier UN7398028

NICA ID 445832

Production Date 09/19/2010 4:32:42 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Mark Garten

File size 3.97 MB