The Guardian November 20, 2018: Erik Solheim quits after Guardian reveals excess travel and rule breaking which led to withholding of funds.
"Numerous Unep staff have contacted the Guardian criticising Solheim’s perceived closeness to China and the project he initiated related to the environmental sustainability of China’s huge infrastructure Belt and Road Initiative. The US in particular was concerned and its representatives raised a long list of questions as far back as April, including about how the project was funded and how intellectual property rights would be protected."
"Another concern to staff was the $500,000 sponsorship Solheim agreed to give the Volvo Ocean Race, despite it not being mentioned on the VOR sponsors’ web page or announced by Une"
China Daily December 11, 2020. Erik Solheim, the former head of the UN Environment Program, said that by showing the world a green recovery from the pandemic is possible, China can provide global leadership in sustainable development in the post-COVID-19 world.
UNGA 2009: What is happening? A basic power shift away from the West. "There will not be any deep multilateral Kyoto style agreement on climate. The whole approach is wrong. Evils are not abolished by consensus among evildoers; slavery was not abolishe
En kinesisk solskenshistoria. Thursday, October 12, 2006 By Andrew Batson in Wuxi, China, The Wall Street Journal. "When he arrived in Australia 18 years ago as a physics student, Shi Zhengrong scraped by on a meager stipend from the Chinese government t
FOCUS ON TRADE: Number 146, July 2009 Print E-mail IN THIS ISSUE SAVING CHINA’S ECONOMY AND THE CLIMATE: CAN THE TWAIN MEET? Dorothy Grace Guerrero CLOSER TIES, LARGER MARKETS: EXAMINING THE ASEAN FTAS Joseph Purugganan ROBERT MCNAMARA’S SECOND