“Waste is Wealth” Part III Celebrating An African “Climate Legendary Icon and Expert” ✓Celebrating Excellence and Recognition for a Sustainable and Resilient Fight against Climate Change ✓Dr Richard Munang Cameroon Born Picks 2023 Nottingham Alumni Award in Flying Colors from the UK

Dr Richard Munang in honor of his year long career in the crusade against climate change was on Monday the 24^th of July 2023 in the UK recognized as a Nottingham Alumni an alma matter.

A prestigious title which says all about an accomplished educationist who for years exceptionally took off time to embark and venture on a social change career and climate awareness campaigns.

Dr Richard is visibly seen on all mediums and platforms fronting for behavioral change and climate solution actions to arrest climate crisis.

Which is why a college and a battery of lecturers and Professors at Nottingham University saw in him the qualities of a steadfast, focused and a dedicated Social actors committed in bringing social change in the world through his innovative and inspirational ideas.

Not to over belabor the point, saying it with all emphasis and emphatically as a climate expert and land media actor, Dr Richard Munang Cameroon Born is an inspiration to the world.

The Exceptionality in the “Man” Dr Richard Munang;

Dr. Richard Munang is the Deputy Regional Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Africa Office. Before this appointment, Richard was the Climate Change Coordinator of the same office, where he guided the implementation of UNEP’s climate-resilient development strategy at national and regional levels. He has extensive programming and policy implementation experience, serving as Regional Coordinator for Africa, Climate Change Sub Programme. Richard’s first assignment at UNEP was as a Project Manager with its Ecosystems Division in 2009. He managed the first UNEP Adaptation Project called Climate Change Adaptation and Development Programme (CCDare), implemented jointly with UNDP. He later worked on EBA for mountains, EBA for Food security, EBA for Coastal ecosystems, low emissions development and Climate action projects.

When he joined the Africa office, he pioneered the first UNEP Africa Adaptation Gap report series, which helped galvanize a coherent continental strategic climate policy position resulting in the elevation of adaptation to be at par with mitigation, an AMCEN priority. He spearheaded the conceptualization and creation of the Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly (EBAFOSA), a continental policy framework and implementation platform for adaptation and food security in Africa. He has enhanced youth skills retooling to leverage their passion for turning climate change challenges into climate opportunities.

Before joining the United Nations, Richard worked as a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Dublin, and a Lecturer at Nottingham University. He has participated in various research projects and has published over 500 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and magazines. He is the author of the book– Making Africa work through the Power of Innovative Volunteerism.

He is the 2016 winner of UNEP’s Baobab staff awards for Programme Innovation for enhancing efficiency and efficacy, with UNEP work on EBA policy integration being up-scaled nationally and regionally.

Richard is a Cameroonian Citizen who holds a PhD in Environmental Change and Policy from the University of Nottingham and completed the first pioneering Executive Certificate in ‘Climate Change and Energy: Policy Making for the Long Term at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.