Jennifer Morgan (activist)
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| Special representative for International climate policy, German Federal Foreign Office | |
| Assumed office TBA | |
| Appointed by | Annalena Baerbock |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Office established |
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| Born | Jennifer Morgan April 21, 1966 Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American, German |
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Jennifer Morgan (born April 21, 1966) is an American German environmental activist specializing in climate change policy. Since 2016 she has been leading the environmental protection organization Greenpeace International together with Bunny McDiarmid.[1] As of 2022 she is a special representative for international climate policy Federal Foreign Office in Germany under minister Annalena Baerbock.
Life
Morgan was born to a bank clerk and a nurse in Ridgewood, New Jersey. After school she studied political science and German from 1988 at Indiana University Bloomington. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then transferred to the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. and studied International Relations there. She earned a Master of Arts.
Career
From 1994 to 1996 Morgan served as coordinator for the US section of the Climate Action Network. She then directed WWF's Global Climate Change Program from 1998 to 2006. She then worked as Global Climate Change Director for the think tank E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2016, she worked as Global Director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute. Since April 2016 she has been managing Greenpeace International in the capacity of executive director together with Bunny McDiarmid.
In addition to these full-time tasks, Jennifer Morgan worked during the German EU Council Presidency in 2007 in the advisory board of the Federal Government under the direction of the climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and has supported the Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair since 2008. She also worked as a review editor on a chapter of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and was a member of the German government's Council for Sustainable Development (Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung). From 2010 to 2017 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and is an honorary member of Germanwatch.
Morgan has been a regular participant at United Nations Climate Change conferences.[2][3]
On February 8, 2022, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the Federal Republic of Germany's Federal Foreign Office as a special representative for international climate policy. To do this, however, she has to acquire German citizenship, which she did on February 28th 2022. Her superior Baerbock formulated great expectations when she was appointed in February 2022, saying "as the helmsman, Jennifer Morgan will steer our climate foreign policy, expand partnerships with other countries around the world and conduct dialogue with civil society worldwide."[4]
Bibliography
Articles (partial list)
- Jennifer L. Morgan, Claudio Maretti, Giulio Volpi. Tropical deforestation in the context of the post-2012 Climate Change Regime. pp. 101–110 In: Paulo Moutinho & Stephan Schwartzman (Hrsg.): Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change. Belém: IPAM/Washington DC, Environmental Defense, 2005. ISBN 858782712X https://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1H42JRS7V-275MYTJ-F3N/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf#page=101
- Jennifer Morgan. Ensuring a secure climate and energy future: Views from Civil Society. London: Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), September 2006. https://e3g.org/wp-content/uploads/Gleneagles_Views_from_Civil_Society_Sept06.pdf
- Jennifer L. Morgan, Rebecca Bertram. Changing Business and Political Climates in the US and Europe: Where is Japan? London: Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd., 2007. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep17772
- Stefan Rahmstorf, Jennifer Morgan, Anders Levermann, and Karsten Sach. Scientific understanding of climate change and consequences for a global deal. In: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al. (eds.): Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause. Cambridge University Press, 2010. (pp. 67–80)
- Lutz Weischer, Jennifer Morgan, Milap Patel. Climate Clubs: Can Small Groups of Countries make a Big Difference in Addressing Climate Change? In: Review of European Community & International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Vol. 21, No. 3 (November 2012), pp. 177–192. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12007
- Jennifer Morgan, Kevin Kennedy. First Take: Looking at President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute. June 25, 2013. https://www.wri.org/insights/first-take-looking-president-obamas-climate-action-plan
- Jennifer Margan. Volle Wende voraus. In: The European. June 2, 2013. https://www.theeuropean.de/jennifer-morgan/6926-globale-energiewende-und-deutsche-verantwortung
- Jennifer Morgan, Lutz Weischer. The World Needs More Energiewende. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, July 30, 2013. https://www.wri.org/insights/world-needs-more-energiewende
- Jennifer Morgan, David Waskow. A new look at climate equity in the UNFCCC. In: Climate Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (October 2013), pp. 17–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2014.848096
- Jennifer Morgan. 6 Functions for the International Climate Agreement. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, March 17, 2014 https://www.wri.org/insights/6-functions-international-climate-agreement
- Michael I. Westphal, Pascal Canfin, Athena Ballesteros and Jennifer Morgan. Getting to $100 Billion: Climate Finance Scenarios and Projections to 2020. In: Working Paper. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, May 2015
- Jennifer Morgan, Eliza Northrop. Will the Paris Agreement accelerate the pace of change? In: WIREs, Vol. 8, No. 5 (September/October 2017), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.471
References
- ^ "Kabinett macht bisherige Greenpeace-Chefin zur Klimabeauftragten". www.zeit.de. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ Morgan, Jennifer (November 3, 2021). "Cop26's worst outcome would be giving the green light to carbon offsetting". The Guardian. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
- ^ International, Greenpeace (November 7, 2021). "Saudi Arabian negotiators move to cripple COP26 – Greenpeace response". Greenpeace.org. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ tagesschau.de. "Von Greenpeace ins Auswärtige Amt: Klimakampf auf der anderen Seite". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved February 10, 2022.
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