Lea Busch

Lea Busch is the Manager for Cities, States and Regions in Africa, the Middle East and Caucasus at CDP. She supports local, regional and national authorities to measure, manage and report their climate change risks and impacts as well as mitigation and adaptation actions to CDP-ICLEI Track. Moreover, she and her team provide tailored feedback to cities so that they can improve their actions and reporting step-by-step until they reach the CDP Leadership Standard, the gold standard for environmental reporting. In her role, she has formed a partnership with the Marmara Municipalities Union and works closely with over 20 Turkish municipalities. Moreover, she works in the implementation of UNFCCC’s Cities Race to Resilience campaign and WWF’s One Planet City Challenge and develops capacity building trainings with a focus on climate change adaptation. She has an academic background in climate change management and international and human rights law and has worked as a consultant at the Council of Europe’s Social Charter Committee.