{"id":15227,"date":"2016-01-29T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:01:31","slug":"ban-appoints-pasztor-senior-adviser-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/01\/ban-appoints-pasztor-senior-adviser-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban appoints Pasztor senior adviser on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Janos Pasztor of Hungary as Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General expresses his deep gratitude for Mr. Pasztor\u2019s dedicated service and leadership over the past quarter of a century with the United Nations on the key global challenges of climate change, energy and sustainability. Mr. Pasztor most recently served as the Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change in the lead up and successful conclusion of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pasztor also served as Executive Secretary of the Secretary-General\u2019s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, Director of the Secretary-General\u2019s Climate Change Support Team, Director of the United Nations Environment Management Group and in various senior positions within the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role as Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Change, Mr. Pasztor will support efforts of the Secretary-General to mobilize world leaders and all sectors of society to implement the landmark Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/spokesperson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office\u00a0of the Secretary-General&#8217;s Spokesperson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasztor most recently served as the Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change in the lead up and successful conclusion of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":11309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,5270],"tags":[144,682,5217],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-news","category-press-material","tag-climate-change","tag-janos-pasztor","tag-paris-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}