Esteban Bermúdez Forn is a Climate Change Specialist at the Global Environment Facility, supporting climate change mitigation and transparency initiatives since November 2021. Prior experience includes serving as a Programme Management Officer and Climate Change Mitigation Coordinator at the UN Environment Programme from July 2017 to November 2021, where Esteban coordinated electric mobility projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Esteban co-founded ESCOIA S.A., specializing in sustainable energy consultancy, and has contributed to numerous projects, including electric mobility initiatives and research on resource efficiency. An advocate for climate action, Esteban has also worked as a professor at Universidad de Costa Rica and held various roles in energy and climate change analysis, showcasing a strong background in sustainable energy technology with a Master’s degree from Delft University of Technology.
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Global Environment Facility
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest multilateral trust fund focused on enabling developing countries to invest in nature, and supports the implementation of major international environmental conventions including on biodiversity, climate change, chemicals, and desertification. The GEF was established on eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over $114 billion in grants and mobilized in excess of $70 billion in additional financing for more than 4,000 projects. The GEF has become an international partnership of 184 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector to address global environmental issues.