Moira Simmons-Avafoa
Moira Simmons-Avafoa is a climate-change activist and civil servant from Tuvalu.
Career[edit]
Simmons-Avafoa is outspoken about the effects of climate change - particularly on the lives of women and children, who also have the least input into decision-making.[1][2][3] She was a Senior Advisor - Pacific Division with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tuvalu until a secondment to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat as part of the Smaller Island States Attachment Programme.[4] In 2019 she had returned to her Senior Adviser role.[5]
In 2018 she was the programme's representative at the Green Climate Fund's Structured Dialogue with the Pacific conference.[6] In 2017 she was one of 22 women selected to take part in an international climate-change negotiation training workshop.[7] The workshop was entitled Pacific Women's Climate Change Negotiating Conference and was facilitated by the Pacific Islands Forum and the Australian Government.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Pacific women hone climate change negotiation skills | Pacific Climate Change Portal". www.pacificclimatechange.net. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
- ^ "Pacific Women Hone Climate Change Negotiation Skills". Nukualofa Times. 1 February 2017.
- ^ "Pacific Ocean Commissioner, Ratu Sukuna Road, Suva (2020)". www.govserv.org. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ "Being a Smaller Islands States Attaché – by Moira Simmons Avafoa – Forum Sec". Retrieved 2020-06-01.
- ^ Tuvalu: Increasing Access to Renewable Energy https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/linked-documents/49450-015-ieeab.pdf
- ^ Structured Dialogue with the Pacific https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/event/2018-structured-dialogue-pacific-list-participants.pdf
- ^ "WEDO: In Focus" (PDF).
- ^ "Pacific women hone climate change negotiation skills". RNZ. 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2020-06-01.