Viveka Bohn has served as Environmental Ambassador for the Swedish Government from 2003 until September 2006 when she retired from the Government Offices. She started her service in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1965 and has been involved in international environmental issues since 1988, both at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Environment and at the Ministry for Sustainable Development. As Environmental Ambassador she has been involved in a number of negotiation missions, particularly with regard to several multilateral environmental agreements, such as: The Convention on Biological Diversity, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and other chemicals related conventions. She has also represented Sweden at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council and at the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD), and other international ministerial meetings related to environment and sustainable development. Ms Bohn served as president for the preparatory committee to develop a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and was chairing the negotiating committee during the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) in February 2006. Prior to her appointment as Environmental Ambassador for the Swedish Government in 2003, she was chief negotiator and head of the Swedish project secretariat for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. During this period she worked particularly on issues related to sustainable consumption and production, incl chemicals. Since Johannesburg Ms Bohn is the co-chair of the so-called Marrakech process on sustainable consumption and production. She will continue this task until the third international meeting, which will take place in Stockholm in June 2007.
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