According to Bloomberg article published on February 20, 2023, South Africa’s chief climate finance negotiator Zaheer Fakir has resigned.
Fakir has accepted a position as senior adviser to the United Arab Emirates’s team preparing for the international climate talks that will held there later this year, according to an emailed statement from the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.
Fakir’s resignation comes less than three weeks after the news that Daniel Mminele, who oversaw the country’s negotiations for an $8.5 billion climate finance deal with some of the world’s richest nations, had stepped down from his post as head of the Presidential Climate Finance Task Team.
