Mohammed Valli Moosa (born 8 February 1957 in

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) is a retired

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n politician who was active in the United Democratic Front.

Political career

In the early 1990s, he participated for the

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in the negotiations to end apartheid. In the government of national unity, he was Deputy Minister for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development (1994–1996), after the exodus of the National Party he became Minister in this department. In 1999, he took office as the Environment and Tourism Minister of

. In this position, he has worked to raise awareness of the problem of household

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, jokingly naming

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s the "national flower" and pushing to introduce a minimum legal thickness of 30 micrometres to increase their cost, reusability, and recyclability.

Corporate and civil society involvement

He was elected President of IUCN – the

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at the 3rd World Conservation Congress in

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in November 2004. He was also the non-executive chairman of

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and Sun International. In April 2013, he was appointed the independent non-executive chairman of

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. In December 2020, he was appointed as Deputy Chairperson of the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC). The PCC is a multi-lateral organisation in South Africa that advises on climate change policies that would enable a

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to a low-carbon economy and society.

References

External links

African National Congress profile of Mohammed Valli Moosa
1957 births Living people African National Congress politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Government ministers of South Africa People from Johannesburg Presidents of the International Union for Conservation of Nature {{SouthAfrica-politician-stub