Chantal-Line Carpentier

Chantal-Line Carpentier
Born
Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationMcGill University, Virginia Tech

Chantal-Line Carpentier is a Canada-born Head of Trade, Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development,  of UN Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) Division on International Trade and Commodities following 7 years as Chief of UNCTAD in New York. She is a strong supporter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and in particular SDG12 concerned with responsible and sustainable production, climate, the ocean economy, and biodiversity with a trade and development perspective.

Life

Carpentier was born in Canada. She took her first and master's degrees at McGill University in the economics of agriculture, and a PhD degree in  Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech University.[1] In 1996, she began working as a post doctoral fellow of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Brazil. She completed that work in 1998.[2]

She is fluent in the Canadian languages of English and French and she also speaks Portuguese and Spanish and she has a good knowledge of Mandarin.[1] She is keen on karate and she has competed in ironman events and ultra marathons.[2]

In 2006 she became a Yale World Fellow.[2] In October 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme unveiled a Global Green New Deal to create jobs in "green" industries.[3] Carpentier co-authored a UN document to encourage its wider membership.[4]

From 2007 to 2010 she was involved with created the programme to support the UN's ambitions, as one of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)'s sustainable development officers, for what became SDG12. Responsible production included food security and sustainable agriculture.[1] In 2014, she was still working for DESA when she became the Chief of UNCTAD based in New York.[1]

She has presented a TEDx talk titled The Fleeting Chance of a Sustainable World at TEDxSainteAnnedeBellevue[5] and she has spoken at Syracuse University about Chantal Line Carpentier to present ‘Negotiating a Global Sustainable Development Agenda in 2015.[6]

Carpentier came up with the idea of a colour economy which she developed as a way of developing new interest in looking at alternative ways of organising an economy. The concept of a green low carbon economy was well known but she developed new colours. Blue was sustainable use of the seas and yellow was for the attention economy including the on-line companies who want to capture and sell the usrs attention. She wrote a paper on it and then gained the support of the UN's chief economist.[7][8]

Publications include

  • Agriculture and the Environment: An Economic-ecologic Input-output Model of the Canadian Economy, 1994[9]
  • Understanding and Anticipating Environmental Change in North America: Building Blocks for Better Public Policy, 2001[10]
  • Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: From Deforestation to Sustainable Land Use, 2002 (with others)[11]
  • Ethical Investing (in French), 2008.[2]
  • Trade Policy for Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Development in a New International Economic Order, 2022 (with others)[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier | UNSSC | United Nations System Staff College". www.unssc.org. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  2. ^ a b c d "Chantal-Line Carpentier – Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program". Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  3. ^ Eccleston, Paul (October 22, 2008). "UN announces green "New Deal" plan to rescue world economies". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on September 22, 2012.
  4. ^ Tariq Banuri, David Le Blanc, Fred Soltau, Chantal-Line Carpentier and Andy Yager (March 2009). "A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development" (PDF). United Nations. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 3, 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ The Fleeting Chance of a Sustainable World | Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier | TEDxSainteAnnedeBellevue, retrieved 2023-12-02
  6. ^ "Chantal Line Carpentier to present 'Negotiating a Global Sustainable Development Agenda'". SU News. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  7. ^ "Chantal Line Carpentier - UCD Institute for Discovery". www.ucd.ie. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  8. ^ Nations, United. "Policy Briefs". United Nations. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  9. ^ Carpentier, Line Chantal (1994). Agriculture and the Environment: An Economic-ecologic Input-output Model of the Canadian Economy. McGill University Libraries.
  10. ^ Carpentier, Chantal Line (2001). Understanding and Anticipating Environmental Change in North America: Building Blocks for Better Public Policy. Environment, Economy, and Trade Division, Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
  11. ^ Vosti, Stephen A.; Witcover, Julie; Carpentier, Chantal Line (2002-01-01). Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: From Deforestation to Sustainable Land Use. Intl Food Policy Res Inst. ISBN 978-0-89629-132-4.
  12. ^ Kuhlmann, Katrin; Carpentier, Chantal Line; Francis, Tara; Graet, Malou Le (2022). Trade Policy for Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Development in a New International Economic Order. SSRN.