Ms. Belynda Petrie

Leading expert with over 15 years of experience in regional and international climate change diplomacy, focusing on socio-economic security. Ms. Petrie has been instrumental in facilitating the shaping of a science-policy-institutional–finance dialogue, in developing transformative pathways for climate adapted development strategies and financing instruments in Africa and Asia. Ms. Petrie led the development of the Green Economy scenarios chapter for the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Economic Report for Africa on Green Industrialisation in 2016, analysing continental green growth and business as usual development pathways across the continent, drawing on country case studies while modelling co benefits.