Date Released: Mon, 15 August 2011 12:00 +0200

Dr Godwell Nhamo will be giving the 2nd lecture of the COP 17 Climate Change Lecture Series this Tuesday (16/08) at 18h30 in Eden Grove Blue. His lecture is entitled: ?Durban 9/12: Past, current and future concerns in global climate negotiations?.

Dr Godwell Nhamo is a Programme Manager for the Exxaro Resources Ltd sponsored Chair in Business and Climate Change. The Chair is hosted by the Institute for Corporate Citizenship that falls within the College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS) at the University of South Africa. Dr Nhamo holds a PhD from Rhodes University and did his postdoctoral work with the University of Witwatersrand (both in South Africa). Dr Nhamo has great interests in Business and Climate Change; Global Climate Change, Climate Policy Negotiation Regimes; as well as General Environmental Management and Policy. Some of Dr Nhamo?s current responsibilities are in teaching, research and training in corporate citizenship, sustainability sciences, climate policy, green economy as well as business and climate change. Dr Nhamo has published widely across his areas of research interests. He has emerged as an international speaker in areas of climate policy, business sustainability and general sustainable development. Currently Dr Nhamo is supervising five doctoral students working on various topics aligned to global change, climate policy, climate change and the environment. His Chair also runs a multi-disciplinary Research Associate Programme that involves mentoring young academics within Unisa that are willing to mainstream climate change in their teaching and research areas. The Research Associate Programme is also a component of the CEMS Flagships Programme.

The lecture is the 2nd instalment in a series of 5 lectures revolving around issues of climate change and the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to be hosted in Durban from the 28th-9th of December this year. For more information on the lecture series please see the following links for the poster and invitation: