Addisu Gebremedhin Atsibha
Senior Environmentalist and Consultant, Ethiopia
Biography
Addisu Gebremedhin Atsibha is expert in environment and climate change. He has got BSc in Biology and MSc in Environmental Science. He has been working in Environmental Protection Authority and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change as a researcher and senior environmentalist. He has practical experience in the area of pollution research, compliance monitoring, climate change, technology transfer and climate change mainstreaming. He has been the focal person to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) NAMA registry. He has prepared researches on pollution and participated in the revision of environmental policy, preparation of environmental strategy, national adaptation plan, technology need assessment, safeguard framework for climate change projects. Currently, he has been working as a senior environmentalist for the African Development Bank program under the Water Resource Development Fund and is general manager for the Evergreen Environment and Development Consultancy. He has participated in many national and international conferences in Ethiopia and abroad.