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Timothy E. Wirth (U.S.A.)蒂莫西·沃思
蒂莫西•沃思是聯合國基金會和更美好世界基金會的主席。兩大組織都是在1998年通過特德•特納的大額捐助而成立的,旨在支持、加強聯合國的工作。
1986年沃思進入美國參議院,當時他就非常關注環境問題。1988年他組織了具有歷史意義的關於氣候變化的『漢森聽證會』。他和他的親密戰友、已故參議員約翰•海因茨共同撰寫了『88項目』,開創性地提出了『排放限制與交易』思想,並且被納入1990年『潔淨空氣法案修正案』。他還起草了影響深遠的『科羅拉多原野法案』,並於1993年立法通過。
沃思是克林頓-戈爾大選的主持人之一,從1993至1997年任職於美國國務院,擔任主管全球事務的第一副國務卿。 1994年他率領美國代表團出席『開羅人口和發展大會』,也是『京都氣候大會』上的美方首席談判員。1997年沃思辭去政府官職,應特德•特納之邀擔任新成立的聯合國基金會主席。
聯合國基金會自1998年成立以來,沃思一直擔任其主席職務,負責組織、制定基金會的使命和資助重點,這些重點資助項目包括環境問題、婦女和人口問題、兒童健康、和平、安全和人權問題。基金會還致力於各種公共事業,積極籌集資金,為聯合國加強體制化而努力。
沃思還是哈佛監察理事會的理事,並且剛剛被聯合國環境署授予『地球衛士』榮譽稱號。
Timothy E. Wirth is the president of the UN Foundation and the Better World Fund. Both organizations were founded in 1998 through a major financial commitment from Ted Turner to support and strengthen the work of the United Nations.
Wirth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, where he focused on environmental issues. In 1988, he organized the historic Hansen hearings on climate change. With his close friend, the late Senator John Heinz (R-PA), he authored 『Project 88,』 outlining the groundbreaking 『Cap and Trade』 idea, which became law in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. He authored the far-reaching Colorado Wilderness Bill, which became law in 1993.
Wirth was national co-chair of the Clinton-Gore campaign, and served in the U.S. Department of State as the first undersecretary for global affairs from 1993 to 1997. He chaired the United States Delegation at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and was the lead U.S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference until he resigned from the Administration in late 1997 to accept Ted Turner」s invitation to be president of the newly created UN Foundation.
As president of the UN Foundation since its inception in early 1998, Wirth has organized and led the formulation of our mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children」s health, and peace, security and human rights. We also engage in extensive public advocacy, fund-raising and institutional strengthening efforts on behalf of the United Nations.
He also served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. He was recently honored as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Program.
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