Mozaharul Alam

Mr. Mozaharul Alam is the regional coordinator of climate change sub-programme for Asia and the Pacific of Office of United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment). He provides leadership and coordinates implementation, facilitate and lead resource mobilisation, and support implementation of start-up phase of implementation of UN Environment CC sub-programme in AP Region with a clear alignment with outcomes of UN Environment Assembly, Medium Term Strategy (MTS) and Programme of Work (PoW), Paris Agreement and SGDs. He also supports implementation of the corporate functions of the Regional Office. He also provides political guidance, policy advice and technical inputs to climate change team in Asia and the Pacific Office including National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme (NAP-NGS), and Least Developed Countries Negotiators’ Capacity Building. He has spent significant amount of his professional time in climate change researcher and lead several climate change studies before joining UN Environment. He has also worked for Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Bangladesh as National Project Coordinator to formulate National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). He has worked as Lead Author for Chapter 16 “Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits” of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). He has also contributed to Health Chapter of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the IPCC as a Contributing Author.


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