Can you feel sorry for a climate bureaucrat? Well I do. Look at my fellow Aussie Howard Bamsey. He’s been implementing climate policies abroad for the past decade, after a stint as deputy secretary in Kevin Rudd’s Climate Change Department in 2008-10.
Then he ran the Seoul-based multilateral Global Green Growth Institute and 18 months ago became executive director of the UN-created Green Climate Fund (GCF), now the financial muscle of the 2015 Paris Accord.
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