Sheila Kong Mukwele from the International Climate Protection Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

OSPAR recently had the pleasure of working with Sheila Kong Mukwele who came to the OSPAR Secretariat on an internship for 2 months. Sheila was an International Climate Protection Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation where she was working on a research project entitled “Impacts of Climate Change and the Legal Framework of the Protection of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Gulf of Guinea”, with the main objective being to examine the Abidjan Convention of 1981 in the light of climate change, while proposing recommendations as to its revitalisation in this area. Sheila is a Foreign Affairs Attaché with the Ministry of External Relations of Cameroon.

Sheila visited the OSPAR Secretariat to work on a number of projects relating to OSPAR and the Abidjan Convention. Primarily Sheila was investigating the proposed structure of a collaborative work between the OSPAR and the Abidjan Convention in a project entitled 'OSPAR and Abidjan Conventions: Ensuring the Future we want through a Transatlantic Cooperation'. She also looked at ways of mirroring the work of the OSPAR Commission on ocean acidification in the Arctic Region to that of the Secretariat of the Abidjan Convention.

^{Sheila (centre) with OSPAR Executive Secretary Susana Salvador and OSPAR Deputy Secretary Charlotte Mogensen}