New seat adds international influence in development of the Reserve and its protocols, projects
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Climate Action Reserve, a private nonprofit organization working to ensure environmental benefit, integrity and progressive movement in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and policies, announced Adrián Fernández Bremauntz, President of the National Institute of Ecology (INE) in Mexico, was elected to the organization’s Board of Directors. His participation adds an international influence to the future development of the Climate Action Reserve and an invaluable resource to advise on the environmental benefit the Reserve’s protocols and projects could provide in Mexico.
Dr. Fernández has an extensive and distinguished career in environmental protection in Mexico and abroad. Since 1995, he has served in senior positions at the Mexican Environment Secretariat, including General Director for Environmental Management and Information (1995-2000) and General Director for Research on Urban, Regional and Global Pollution (2001-2005). He also was a member of the Bureau for Latin America at the Commission for Sustainable Development. For many years, he represented Mexico at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Environmental Performance of Countries work group, and he is now a member of the Climate Change Annex I Expert Group also at the OECD. His Climate Change team at INE is responsible for preparing Mexico´s National Greenhouse Gases Inventories and National Communications that are submitted to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change.
In March 2005, Dr. Fernández was appointed President of the National Institute of Ecology, the research and think tank agency within the Environment Secretariat in Mexico, and he reports directly to Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources. He has a B.S. in Biology in Mexico and Masters Degree and a PhD from Imperial College in the UK.