Dr Godwell Nhamo is a Programme Manager for the Exxaro Chair in Business and Climate Change. The Chair is hosted by the Institute for Corporate Citizenship that falls within the College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS) at the University of South Africa (Unisa). Dr Nhamo holds a PhD from Rhodes University and did his postdoctoral work with the University of Witwatersrand (both in South Africa). Dr Nhamo has great interests in Low Carbon and Green Economy, Business and Climate Change; Global Change, Climate Policy Negotiation Regimes; as well as General Environmental Management and Policy. Some of Dr Nhamo’s current responsibilities are in teaching, research and training in the impact areas highlighted.

Dr Nhamo has published widely across his areas of research interests. Dr Nhamo’s 2011 work includes a co-authored book entitled “Framework and Tools for Environmental Management in Africa”; an edited book to be launched before COP17 entitled ‘Green Economy and Climate Mitigation: Topics of Relevance to Africa’; another edited book under preparation involving more than 20 authors entitled “Breakthrough: Corporate South Africa in a Low Carbon and Green Economy”; one journal article and four book chapters all of which have addressed various components in the low carbon and green economy. The book ‘Breakthrough’ profiles ‘breakthrough’ low carbon and green economy initiatives from selected companies in South Africa.

The book is due for publication in the second half of 2012.  Dr Nhamo has emerged as an international speaker in his impact areas. Currently, Dr Nhamo is supervising five doctoral students working on various topics aligned to the green economy, global change, climate policy, climate change and the environment. His Chair also runs a multi-disciplinary Research Associate Programme that involves mentoring young academics within Unisa that are willing to mainstream green economy and climate change in their teaching and research.