Adrian Macey

Adrian Macey writes and lectures on climate change and other topics. He is a former New Zealand diplomat, and his previous positions included Ambassador in Bangkok (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar), Ambassador in Paris (France, Algeria and the OECD) and Chief Trade Negotiator. From 2006-2010 he was New Zealand’s first Climate Change Ambassador and served as Vice-chair and then Chair of the UN climate change negotiations under the Kyoto Protocol in 2010-2011. He has participated in and chaired several WTO dispute settlement panels.

He is also an Adjunct Professor at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Chair of the Board of the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies (an independent think tank), and Chair of Trustees of the Climate Forum, a newly-formed multi-stakeholder group on climate change policy. The Forum grew out of the climate change roundtables, an independently funded Chatham House rule programme under IGPS, which he ran with political journalist Colin James.

Among his publications:

  • MACEY, Adrian. Climate Change: Governance Challenges for Copenhagen, in Global Governance Vol. 15 No.4 Oct.-Dec. 2009
  • FRAME, David; MACEY, Adrian; ALLEN,Myles.  Cumulative Emissions and Climate Policy in Nature Geoscience September 2014
  • MACEY, Adrian. Dispute Settlement in TRIPs: a Two-edged Sword, in Watal and Taubman (eds):  The Making of the TRIPs Agreement. Personal Insights from the Uruguay Round Negotiations, World Trade Organization, 2015
  • MACEY, Adrian. The Paris Climate Change Agreement: text and contexts, in Policy Quarterly Volume 12 issue 1 February 2016
  • MACEY, Adrian.The Principle of Responsibility in the Global Response to Climate Change: Origins and Evolutiondans Martin, B et al (eds), ResponsAbility. Law and Governance for Living Well with the Earth, Routledge 2018
  • MACEY, Adrian. ALLEN, M et al, A solution to the misrepresentations of CO2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants under ambitious mitigation, NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science (2018) 16