Elena Borisovna Manajenkova

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Jelena Borissowna Manajenkowa ( Russian Елена Борисовна Манаенкова ; born September 3, 1964 in Moscow ) is a Russian geographer and meteorologist . She is Deputy Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Life

Manajenkowa graduated in 1986 at the Moscow State University to study and received his doctorate in 1993 in Moscow at the Hydrometeorological Research Center of the Russian Federation ( Гидрометеорологический научно-исследовательский центр Российской Федерации ) in physics and mathematics, graduated with a focus on meteorology, climatology, satellite meteorology and satellite remote sensing and since then a number of scientific stations. She came to WMO in 2003 and has held various roles there since September 2016 as Deputy General Secretary.

She is married and has two children.

Act

Manajenkowa's work is all about climate protection . In her opening speech at the 48th session of the IPCC in 2018 , she said : “Climate change is advancing faster than we are. We need more ambition and a stronger sense of urgency. ”She also emphasized the importance of greenhouse gases:“ Every fraction of global warming counts, and so is every part of greenhouse gases per million. CO 2 stays in the atmosphere and in the oceans for much longer for centuries. There is currently no magic wand to remove all of that excess CO 2 from the atmosphere. "

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credentials

  1. a b Исполнительный совет (ИС68) согласовал назначение Елены Борисовны Манаенковой заместителем Генерального секретаря ВМО . Росгидромет, June 20, 2016, accessed February 14, 2019 (Russian).
  2. a b c d e Elena Manaenkova: Deputy Secretary-General. World Meteorological Organization, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  3. Welcoming Speech by Elena Manaenkova, Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization Opening Ceremony of the 48th Session of the IPCC. 2018, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
  4. Climate-heating greenhouse gases at record levels, says UN. The Guardian, November 22, 2018, retrieved February 14, 2019 (UK English).