Reports: UN Environment set to choose new chief to replace Erik Solheim

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Solheim, who quit last year, suggests Inger Andersen from the International Union for Conservation of Nature is in pole position to take over at UNEP

The UN Environment Programme looks to have chosen a new Executive Director to replace Erik Solheim, who resigned from the global green body late last year in controversial circumstances. Solheim himself...

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