Youba Sokona Explained

Birth Date:23 May 1950
Birth Place:Segou, Mali
Nationality:Malian
Fields:Energy
Sustainable development
Climate change[1]
Workplaces:Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Enda Third World
South Centre
Alma Mater:Abderhamane Baba Touré National School of Engineers (BSc)
Pierre and Marie Curie University (DEA)
Mines Paris - PSL (PhD)
Honorific Prefix:Professor
Honorific Suffix:FAAS FTWAS

Youba Sokona FAAS FTWAS (born 23 May 1950) is a Malian expert in the fields of energy and sustainable development, particularly in Africa. He has been the vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since October 2015 and a lead author at the IPCC since 1990.

Early life and education

Youba Sokona was born on 23 May 1950 in Segou, Mali.

In 1976, Youba Sokona obtained a Civil and Mining Engineering degree from the Abderhamane Baba Touré National School of Engineers, Mali. He continued his studies in France to pass a diploma of advanced studies (DEA) option Sciences of the Earth at the Pierre and Marie Curie University today Sorbonne University, Paris, which he finished in 1978. Sokona obtained his doctorate in Earth Sciences as a student of the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1981.[2]

Career and research

Youba research[3] and commentary[4] [5] focuses on policies[6] that affect energy,[7] [8] desertification,[9] sustainable development,[10] and climate change,[11] particularly in Africa.[12]

Sokona is a special advisor for sustainable development at the South Centre.[13] At the same time, he is a member of many councils, organizations and institutions, a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) since January 2017 and until December 2022.[14] He is Special Advisor to the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines in the United States,[15] Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC).[16]

Fight against climate change in Africa

In 1995 Youba Sokona published a Strategy for the rational use of energy in West Africa: evaluation and prospective for the organization Enda Third World where he was the co-founder of the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative, which he coordinated from 1987 to June 2004. In 2002, he published the article Mastering energy in West Africa.[17] [18] In 2008 he supervised the program of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel as executive secretary of the Sahara and Sahel Observatory.[19] [20] [21] Youba resigned from the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative on 30 April 2017, citing “European interference [to impose EU-preferred projects][22] in African governance that belongs to another era.”[23] [24] [25] The initiative was replaced in 2017 due to row over European interference.[26] Youba aired his frustration that academics at African institutions are often not consulted by policymakers or governments and their research and potential solutions are being while donor's ideas are being pushed forward.[27] [28] [25]

IPCC

As a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its main contributor since 1990,[29] Youba Sokona has notably been co-chairman of working group III alongside Ottmar Edenhofer and Ramón Pichs Madruga, studying the role of renewable energies in the fight against climate change; their report, entitled IPCC special report on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation,[30] was published in 2014 in the fifth report of the IPCC.[31] [32] [33] In 2007, when the fourth report appeared, he was the lead author of the summary note, while being cited several times in the appendix to the Group III report;[34] this same report was part of Why IPCC received Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in the same year.[35] However, the IPCC came under unprecedented media scrutiny in 2009 in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference. This "Climatic Research Unit email controversy" involved the leak of emails from climate scientists. Many of these scientists were authors of the Fourth Assessment Report which came out in 2007. The discovery of an error in this report that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 put the IPCC under further pressure.[36] Scientific bodies upheld the general findings of the Fourth Assessment Report and the IPCC's approach.[37] [38] But many people thought the IPCC should review the way it works.

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Youba was elected vice-chair of IPCC in October 2015.[40] [41] [42]

Honours and awards

Sokona is an honorary professor at the University College London,[43] and was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences since 2018,[44] and a Fellow o f the World Academy of Sciences in 2022.[45]

References

  1. Web site: Youba SOKONA . 2022-12-16 . scholar.google.fr.
  2. Web site: Curriculum Vitae. Youba Sokona. Archive IPCC. fr. 1 December 2020.
  3. Web site: Youba SOKONA . 2022-12-16 . scholar.google.fr.
  4. Web site: Darby . Megan . 2020-05-28 . Clean energy is vital to the Covid-19 response in the world's poorest countries . 2022-12-16 . Climate Home News . en.
  5. Web site: 2021-09-15 . It's time to listen to African climate scientists . 2022-12-16 . The Africa Report.com . en-US.
  6. Edenhofer . O. . Pichs-Madruga . R. . Sokona . Y. . Seyboth . K. . Arvizu . D. . Bruckner . T. . Christensen . John M. . Devarnay . J.-M. . Faaij . A. . Fischedick . M. . Goldstein . B. . Hansen . G. . Huckerby . J. . Jäger-Waldau . A. . Kadner . S. . 2011 . Summary for Policy Makers . IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation . 3–26 . 10.1017/CBO9781139151153.003 . 9781107023406 . English.
  7. Stiglitz . Joseph E. . Stern . Nicholas . Duan . Maosheng . Edenhofer . Ottmar . Giraud . Gaël . Heal . Geoffrey M. . la Rovere . Emilio Lèbre . Morris . Adele . Moyer . Elisabeth . Pangestu . Mari . Shukla . Priyadarshi R. . Sokona . Youba . Winkler . Harald . 2017 . Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices . en . 1–61 . 10.7916/d8-w2nc-4103. 158231148 .
  8. Sokona . Youba . Mulugetta . Yacob . Gujba . Haruna . 2012-06-01 . Widening energy access in Africa: Towards energy transition . Energy Policy . Universal access to energy: Getting the framework right . en . 47 . 3–10 . 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.040 . 0301-4215.
  9. Vogt . J. V. . Safriel . U. . Von Maltitz . G. . Sokona . Y. . Zougmore . R. . Bastin . G. . Hill . J. . March 2011 . Monitoring and assessment of land degradation and desertification: Towards new conceptual and integrated approaches . Land Degradation & Development . en . 22 . 2 . 150–165 . 10.1002/ldr.1075. 2011LDeDe..22..150V . 129316130 .
  10. Sathaye . Jayant . Lucon . Oswaldo . Rahman . Atiq . Christensen . John . Denton . Fatima . Fujino . Junichi . Heath . Garvin . Mirza . Monirul . Rudnick . Hugh . Schlaepfer . August . Shmakin . Andrey . Angerer . Gerhard . Bauer . Christian . Bazilian . Morgan . Brecha . Robert . 2011-01-01 . Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development . Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. 707–790 . 10.1017/CBO9781139151153.013 . 9781107023406 . 108419488 .
  11. Huq . Saleemul . Reid . Hannah . Konate . Mama . Rahman . Atiq . Sokona . Youba . Crick . Florence . January 2004 . Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) . Climate Policy . en . 4 . 1 . 25–43 . 10.1080/14693062.2004.9685508 . 154693343 . 1469-3062.
  12. Web site: Youba Sokona : " Sur le climat, l'Afrique doit éviter le piège du mimétisme avec les Occidentaux " – Jeune Afrique . 2022-12-16 . JeuneAfrique.com . fr-FR.
  13. Web site: Youba Sokona . 2022-12-16 . tmg-thinktank.com . en.
  14. Web site: Science Advisory Committee. IIASA. iiasa.ac.at. en. 1 December 2021. 2 December 2021.
  15. Web site: Youba Sokona . 2022-12-16 . Payne Institute for Public Policy . en-US.
  16. Web site: Youba Sokona. Climate CoLab. climatecolab.org. en. 2 December 2021.
  17. Book: Stratégie d'utilisation rationnelle de l'énergie en Afrique de l'Ouest: évaluation et prospective. Youba Sokona. Catalogue ENDA-TM. Etudes et Recherches . fr. 1995. Enda tiers monde . 9789291300075 . 1 December 2021.
  18. Web site: Youba Sokona .
  19. Web site: PeerJ – Profile – Youba Sokona . 2022-12-16 . peerj.com.
  20. Web site: Youba Sokona . 2022-12-16 . NCSE Drawdown . en.
  21. Web site: Youba Sokona . 2022-12-16 . Responsible Business . en.
  22. Web site: Darby . Megan . 2017-04-27 . EU, France accused of hijacking 'Africa-led' clean energy scheme . 2022-12-16 . Climate Home News . en.
  23. Web site: 2017-04-30 . Africa's climate advocates balk at Europe's 'interference' in AREI plans Africa Times . 2022-12-16 . africatimes.com . en-US.
  24. Web site: Youba Sokona – EURACTIV.com . 2022-12-16 . www.euractiv.com.
  25. Web site: Admin . 2017-04-28 . EU must stop trying to dictate Africa's clean energy future . 2022-12-16 . Climate Home News . en.
  26. Web site: Mathiesen . Karl . 2017-05-17 . Ségolène Royal reveals new head for 'Africa-led' renewables scheme . 2022-12-16 . Climate Home News . en.
  27. News: 2021-11-06 . COP26: What African climate experts want you to know . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-12-16.
  28. Web site: Africa needs country-specific narratives for a clean energy future – study University of Oxford . 2022-12-16 . www.ox.ac.uk . 25 October 2022 . en.
  29. Book: Ivanova, Maria . The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty . 2021-02-23 . MIT Press . 978-0-262-54210-4 . en.
  30. 2011-11-21 . Reviewers of the IPCC Special Report . Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation . 1033–1050 . 10.1017/cbo9781139151153.020. 9781107023406 .
  31. Web site: Youba Sokona. Encyclopédie de l'énergie. fr. 1 December 2021.
  32. Web site: Mr. Youba Sokona Department of Economic and Social Affairs . 2022-12-16 . sdgs.un.org.
  33. Web site: Youba Sokona. GIEC. ipcc. fr. 1 December 2020.
  34. Web site: Youba Sokona — IPCC . 2022-12-16.
  35. Barnett . Anna . 2008-10-01 . IPCC elections: close contests . Nature Climate Change . en . 1 . 810 . 122–123 . 10.1038/climate.2008.95 . 1758-6798. free .
  36. Web site: Pearce . Fred . 21 January 2010 . Climate chief admits error over Himalayan glaciers . 2022-10-27 . New Scientist . en-US.
  37. Web site: ICSU . 2011-01-27 . ICSU releases statement on the controversy around the 4th IPCC Assessment . 2022-10-27 . International Science Council . en-US.
  38. Web site: PBL . 2010-07-06 . Assessing an IPCC assessment. An analysis of statements on projected regional impacts in the 2007 report . 2022-10-27 . PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency . en.
  39. News: Black . Richard . 10 March 2010 . Scientists to review climate body . BBC News . 4 April 2010.
  40. Web site: Film: Adaptation Voices – Dr Youba Sokona, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . 2022-12-16 . Climate & Development Knowledge Network . 21 April 2021 . en.
  41. Web site: L'Afrique et le changement climatique : Youba Sokona du GIEC. TV5 Monde. youtube.com. fr. mp4. 22 September 2021. 2 December 2021.
  42. Web site: Youba SOKONA, Vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .
  43. Web site: Conversation with Youba Sokona. Blog UCL. blog.ucl.ac.uk. en. 12 January 2018. 2 December 2021.
  44. Web site: Youba Sokona. AAS. aasciences.africa. en. 2017. 2 December 2021.
  45. Web site: Sokona, Youba . 2022-12-16 . TWAS . en.

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