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“Legislation to Encourage Renewable Energy Deployment: A Comparative Review” paper presented to the National Environmental Law Association 2008 National Conference Esplanade Hotel, Freemantle, Perth 27-28 March 2008.

"A comparative review of legal mechanisms for renewable energy development" paper presented to Environmental and Climate Change Legal Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 2-3 April 2008.

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Ian Fry

Ian Fry works as the International Environmental Officer for the Environment Department of the Government of Tuvalu. He has held this position for over ten years and has represented the Tuvalu Government in numerous international fora including the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Commission for Sustainable Development, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, Convention on Biological Diversity, and United Nations General Assembly. Ian is the spokesperson for the Alliance of Small Island States on matters relating to land use, land use change and forestry and more generally on issues relating to mitigation in the consideration of future climate change regimes. He held the position of Vice-Chair of the Facilitative Branch of the Compliance Committee under the Kyoto Protocol.

Ian also undertakes consultancy work primarily associated with negotiations training in the context of multilateral environmental agreements. His work focuses on building the capacity of government representatives from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States. He has facilitated negotiations training workshops in the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Nepal, Samoa, Senegal, and Tuvalu, as well as special pre-Conference of Party workshops for LDCs in Canada, Italy, Indonesia, Kenya and Thailand. This work is carried out in association with the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (UK), the United Nations Environment Programme, WWF Pacific and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Prior to working for the Tuvalu Government, Ian worked as a writer for Earth Negotiations Bulletin. He has been a long term member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and a member of the International Council on Environmental Law. He is currently undertaking a part-time doctorate through the Fenner School of Environment and Society (ANU) looking at land use change and forestry issues under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Applied Science (Biology) (CCAE), Grad Dip Media (CCAE), Master of Environmental Studies (Macq U), Master of Environmental Law (with merit) ANU, Post Grad Dip. International Law (ANU).

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Imran Habib Ahmad

Mr Ahmad holds a Masters degree in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University, Heller School of Social Policy. He is an alumnus of the Berkeley Environmental Leadership Program, Kennedy School Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis Program, Bucerius School on Global Governance, Central European University and a participant of the European Union Visitors Program.

He is an expert on climate change policy and a global resource person in the area of climate change and multilateral environmental agreements. He has been an invited presenter at events organised by leading think tanks including Chatham House, Wilton Park, East-West Center, IIED, IISD, IDS and the Pew Center. He is a global expert on climate change negotiations and was involved as a lead negotiator from Pakistan including the finalization of the Marrakech Accords in Marrakech in 2001 and Special Climate Change Fund in 2003. He has represented the G-77/China block of developing countries in climate change negotiations and was elected as an Asian expert on two of UNFCCC expert bodies on Climate Change. He played a leading role in setting up the national public policy process in response to addressing the climate change problem in Pakistan following the finalization of the Marrakech accords.