Jan Dusík (born 25 April 1975) is a

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and former

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. He was Minister of Environment and senior official in the

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in Geneva. Since March 2020 he leads sustainable development agenda in the WWF Arctic Programme.

Biography

Dusík is a graduate of the Law School of the

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and

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where he studied Environmental Change and Management.

Minister of Environment

He has served as the Deputy Minister before being appointed the Minister of Environment in November 2009. This change was done after the former minister Ladislav Miko left to work for the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

. Jan Dusík resigned in March 2010 over plans to modernise the controversial Prunéřov coal-fired power plant in north-west Bohemia. ČEZ’s plans to modernise Prunéřov made international headlines in early 2010 when the Pacific island nation of Micronesia wrote to the Czech Environment Ministry, in the framework of the

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, saying that the effect of emissions from Prunéřov and plants like it would eventually see low-lying Pacific islands submerged under the waves due to

rising sea levels The sea level has been rising from the end of the last ice age, which was around 20,000 years ago. Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by , with an increase of per year since the 1970s. This was faster than the sea level had e ...

United Nations career

In July 2011 Jan Dusík joined the United Nations Environment Programme - Regional Office for Europe (Geneva, Switzerland), where he served as deputy director and between February 2014 and October 2018 as Director and Regional Representative. Between January 2018 and December 2019 he served as the Principal Adviser to UNEP's Executive Director on Strategic Engagement for the Arctic and Antarctic.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dusik, Jan 1975 births Living people Politicians from Plzeň Charles University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Environment ministers of the Czech Republic Green Party (Czech Republic) Government ministers