WHO ATTENDS THE ELP?

L-R: Monique Mikhail ('08), Roberto Rivas Hermann ('08), WimSchaerlaekens ('08), Robert Odonya ('08), Alvin Chandra ('08). Photo: Bill Valentino ('08)

Since the inaugural Beahrs ELP summer certificate course in 2001, 306 people from more than 70 different countries have come to UC Berkeley for interactive training in Sustainable Environmental Management. Among the ELP Alums are agronomists, foresters, environmental lawyers and journalists, social and biological scientists and development practitioners, from non-profits, academia, the private sector and government ministries as well as international organizations such as the UN and CGIAR. Gender equity has almost been attained, with numbers of women increasing each year. For a breakdown of ELP alumni by geographic location, organization and discipline click here. Learn more about the Alums on the Alumni Network page.

HEAR INTERVIEWS WITH 2007 ALUMS
Three alums of the 2007 ELP summer certificate course in Sustainable Environmental Manangement - Alifah Lestari (Indonesia), Tahir Rasheed (Pakistan) and Emmanuel Wirsiy (Cameroon) were interviewed about their experiences in the course. Click here to hear the interviews on the web site of the College of Natural Resources, UCB.

ELP ALUM TO BE TRAINED BY AL GORE!

Diah Raharjo (ELP'01)

Diah Raharjo, an Indonesian environmental activist, was selected from over 2000 Australasian applicants to be trained by Al Gore at The Climate Project – Australia Asia Pacific Summit (A-P Summit) in Melbourne from July 11- 13th.

The A-P Summit  will brought together 300 people from fields ranging from industry to advocacy who work in the Australasia and Asia Pacific Region.  Mr. Gore and a team of international experts provided the training hosted by the Australian Conservation Foundation.  As a delegate Diah will have the chance to help invigorate the Asia Pacific’s regional response to climate change leading up to the UNCCC Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

One in every seventy-five Australians have now seen a presentation delivered by the 250 Al Gore trained Climate Project Presenters in Australia.  Armed with her training, Diah will be responsible for completing 10 activities to an audience of her choice.  Half of the activities must be completed by November 30th.  An example of the activities may be speaking to her colleagues about climate change, or talking to local media about her role

“I hope my role at the A-P Summit will mean I can work to inspire and create change in order to avoid catastrophic climate change here in Indonesia. I plan to be an advocate for this work in the important five month lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change negotiations,” Diah Raharjo

ELP ALUM PARTICIPATES IN CGI MEETING

Kim Kieser (ELP'09)

" It was the most incredible experience we have ever had. Just to be in the same space with Heads of State, CEO's and Presidents of global corporations,NGO's and celebrities...Everyone was there to do something! No-one was wasting their time. It is all about ACTION NOW. We have made literally a hundred connections that we will follow up on"

.ELP Alum Kim Kieser (ELP'09) was invited represented wet-africa.org at the 5th annual Clinton Global Initiative(CGI) meeting in New York City, September 22-25th, 2009/

For more information about Kim's involvement with the CGI please visit the Wet-Africa website. For more information about CGI and their collaborative efforts with Ashoka, please visit the CGI website.

Kim is the CEO of Wet Africa, an organization whose mission is to" restore the critical and endangered rivers of Africa to health from source to sea". She is also an Ashka fellow. She presented as part of the "Energy and Climate Change" session.

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