Elise Breyton Buckle

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Elise Buckle (or Elise Breyton Buckle) is a climate leader, globally recognized environmental policy expert, lecturer, systemic change catalyst and facilitator. She is the Co-President of Climate & Sustainability, a platform of collaboration for change-makers designed to build global alliances and partnerships among a broad diversity of stakeholders to accelerate climate action and contribute to a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive future for all. She is also the Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate, a large initiative advocating for women empowerment and a 50:50 vision at the top, starting with the UNFCCC COP Presidencies. She is a Board Member of the Climate Action Accelerator, and Advisory Board Member of Listening Inspires. She is a Professor at the IHEID for the Executive Programme Graduate Institute of Geneva, teaching climate policy and action as part of the Executive Certificate for Environmental Governance and Policy-Making. She also teaches Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Glion Institute of Business Education. She is also a public speaker, moderator, dialogue facilitator and writer.

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Education

Elise Buckle holds a Master's degree of International Relations and Development from the Institute of Political Science - Sciences Po Paris and Master of Science in Environmental Policy Planning and Regulation from the London School of Economics. She also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, International from the University of Nottingham.

Career

Elise Buckle has spent most of her career working on climate change, environmental policies, and sustainability, building and developing large coalitions to align vision and unite efforts among a broad diversity of stakeholders including UN agencies, governments, businesses and civil society leaders. She is highly committed to making this world a better place for people and nature.

She started her career in the field of humanitarian aid and development. She worked overseas on disaster reduction for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Chile and for Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, in Tajikistan, Central Asia.

She worked in the private sector as a sustainability consultant for Ernst& Young, advising cities and large companies on their sustainability strategies and plans.

From 2004 to 2006, she worked as environmental policy advisor for the Green Members at the European Parliament, with a focus on international climate policies attending her first UNFCCC COP11 in Montreal, Canada in 2005, European energy policies, agriculture, food and environmental health. She led a large initiative focused on the better regulation of chemicals, which contributed to the adoption of the first REACH legislation which was passed by the European Parliament with a majority vote on November 17th 2005.

In 2007, she worked in the private sector as a sustainability consultant for Ernst& Young, advising cities and large companies on their sustainability strategies and plans.

She then coordinated the IUCN Global Programme working with Regional Offices and teams Africa and Asia providing capacity-building in programme development, monitoring and fundraising and then initiated and developed the first climate initiative under the leadership of Julia Marton-Lefevre, the IUCN Director General.

She was asked by World Wildlife Fund France to lead the Climate and Energy campaign in the lead up to the UNFCCC COP15 on secondment from IUCN. She continued working for WWF International as the lead of climate policy for the G20 Summit under the Presidency of France hosting the G20 Summit in Cannes in 2011, with a globally recognized initiative focused on climate finance which led to the adoption of the Heads of States - Leaders Communiqué endorsing the Green Climate Fund and new innovative finance mechanisms for climate and development.

In 2012, she joined UNI Global Union, an international network of 900 members representing 20 million employees, focusing on sustainable finance. She lead several Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and was at the origin of the Global Agreement with Société Générale, the first French Bank to have ever signed a global agreement on labour and human rights with the global trade union movement; the agreement covered 149,000 employees in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. She participated to the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris and supported the inclusion of the just transition language into the final text of the Paris Agreement adopted by almost all UNFCCC Parties.

From 2016 to 2018, she worked for the UNDP Climate Vulnerable Forum team focusing on climate and labour with the publication of the first UNDP report about the impact of heat on labour and productivity in developing countries. She also organized the first online Heads of States CVF Summit with the Climate Vulnerable Forum Chair, President Hilda Heine (Republic of the Marshall Islands), as Special Projects Director for Climate Action Network- International. She started up and developed the SHIFT-SEA project, an initiative focused on shifting financial flows from coal power plants to renewable energy sources development for all in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. She also convinced many countries to enhance their Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement and influenced policy-makers to include into their political discourse the need to raise climate ambition and step up climate action. She also led the climate policy team for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development on the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative a business alliance of more than 200 companies partnering up to develop renewable energy sources and low carbon technologies to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement.

Special Advisory Roles

Most recently, Elise Buckle was asked to advise several high-level United Nations diplomats.

She advised Ambassador Khan as Chief Negotiator for the UNFCCC COP23 Fiji Presidency leading to the successful adoption of the COP23 Decision for the Talanoa Dialogue aimed at raising climate ambition .

She was also senior advisor to Dr. David Nabarro appointed by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as co-facilitator of the Nature-Based Solutions coalition led by China and New-Zealand and joined by 33 countries under the guidance of the United Nations Environment Programme ; their work resulted into the adoption of the Nature-Based Solutions Manifesto and the launch of 200 initiatives at the UN Climate Action Summit in New-York in September 2019.

Elise Buckle also coordinated the Planetary Emergency Partnership, a large partnership that brings together nearly 300 organizations from around the world. She advised the scientist and professor Johan Rockstrom with a focus on planetary boundaries as well as the economist Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Co-President of the Club of Rome on a paradigm shift "Beyond GDP growth". She also worked with Dixson-Decleve as a Senior Advisor on Resilience for the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021.

Elise Breyton Buckle is part of the Jury of the Financial Times which selected the best climate essay on women empowerment in 2022.

Awards and Recognition

Elise Buckle was awarded the British Council Entente Cordiale Scholarship and the Fulbright Scholarship as a recognition of her excellent academic results and her dedication to sustainability, equity and environmental issues. In 2022, she was selected as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Women Leaders in the Industry Era Women Leaders organization.

Political Career

From 2018 to 2022, Elise Buckle served as Member of the City Council for the Green Party and as Member of the Executive team for the City of Nyon, in charge of the energy transition and Human Resources. She also organized several participatory Citizens Forums on climate and sustainability at the local level. At the Council, she developed and coordinated the climate group including all political parties to increase the level of ambition of the local climate action plan, include quantified emission reduction targets and scale up the development of solar energy roof tops. At the Municipality, she worked on women empowerment, equal salaries, inclusion, diversity, well-being, personal integrity and health at workplace. She developed the second legislation on water resilience and climate adaptation for the city and the region. During her term, the first energy bill reform to scale up financial resources for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Fund to anticipate and address the energy crisis partly amplified by the geopolitical tensions created by the war between Russia and Ukraine. The legislative proposal was accepted and voted by a majority vote by the local Council on May 3rd 2022.

Personal Life

Elise Buckle has two nationalities, French and Swiss: she was born in France on December 27th 1979 and adopted the Swiss nationality in 2022. She speaks fluently English, French, Spanish and some German. On May 12th 2007, she married Matthew Buckle, Canadian citizen and they had two children, Lucas and Leïla Buckle who were born and grew up in Switzerland.

Publications and Books

Le Sommet de Copenhague: un séisme politique nécessaire, Editions Ecoles des Mines, Paris, Responsabilité et Environnement: Après Copenhague, Juin 2009

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform in 24 OECD countries, European Parliament, Brussels, May 2012

Le Voyage de Lucien et Léa, Editions Jets d'Encre, Paris, July 2015 Voyage de Lucien et Léa

Climate Change and Labour: impacts of heat in the workforce, UNDP report, April 2016 UNDP report on Heat

Lola, l'Arbre de la Féminité, Editions Jets d'Encre Juin 2017 Lola, l'Arbre de la Féminitié

Emerging from Emergency with a Systemic Transformation for People, Planet, Prosperity, September 2020, co-authored by Elise Buckle with Sandrine Dixson-Declève Emerging from Emergency, also published by Revista Idee the online magazine on contemporary issues edited by the Centre for Contemporary Studies an in-house think tank of the Government of Catalonia.

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