Murray Ward

Title

Senior Associate

Profile

From 1996 to 2002, Murray led the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s climate change team. In addition to steering the development of domestic climate change policy, he was a leading senior negotiator in delegations to international climate change meetings. He is considered to be one of the key architects of the Kyoto framework, in particular for his international work on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (‘sinks’) and market trading mechanisms. Through his own consultancy, Global Climate Change Consultancy, Murray provides senior counsel to a range of public and private sector clients internationally and in New Zealand, with a particular focus on post-2012 policy issues.

Selected Recent Publications

Ward, M. (2009) Climate Change Mitigation:Understanding Comparability (of Targets and Efforts), IPS Working Paper 09/06. Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies.