Deputy Secretary and Special Envoy on Climate Change
Mr Howard Bamsey is Deputy Secretary overseeing the department’s Adaptation and Land Management Division, International Division and Corporate Services Branch (which is now the Corporate and Governance Division). He is also Australia’s Special Envoy on Climate Change and is one of Australia’s most experienced negotiators, playing a key role in international climate change negotiations.
Mr Bamsey was Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Environment and Water Resources from 1997 to 2002 and head of the Australian Greenhouse Office until 2006. In 2006–07, he co-facilitated the United Nations Dialogue on Long-term Cooperative Action on Climate Change, which formed the basis for negotiations under the Bali Action Plan.
