Herman Sips has extensive strategic, diplomatic and thought-leadership experience stemming from more than 25 years’ dedication to issues of environment, sustainable development and climate change. He contributed from Copenhagen in various senior capacities to the successful adaption of the Paris agreement, the non-state actors’ global climate action agenda and helped initiate and mature the Green Climate Fund and its private sector facility. He worked on issues of carbon pricing and adaptation at the World Bank and the Global Center on adaptation. Currently, he leads the work on the Netherlands initiated Global MoU on Zero Emission Freight and the Netherlands’ contribution to the EU revision of the standards for heavy-duty freight.