BETHESDA, MD, October 24, 2023 – WHC (Natural world Habitat Council) proclaims the appointment of Dominique Debecker to the WHC Board of Administrators. Dominique serves as Deputy Leader Sustainability Officer at Solvay, the place he has greater than 30 years of revel in on the corporate in roles involving industry construction and sustainability. In his present place, Dominique leads Solvay’s sustainability efforts and guarantees that sustainability is embedded within the corporate’s key industry choices.
Multinational chemical corporate Solvay changed into a WHC member in 2021, complementing the corporate’s One Planet ambition of assembly ten sustainability-related objectives by way of 2030. Solvay’s Paulínia website in São Paulo, Brazil, is the primary chemical website in Brazil to earn WHC Certification on the gold stage, a typical that acknowledges excellence in this system’s woodland and wetlands recovery efforts in addition to group engagement and academic alternatives. WHC has supported Solvay’s inner efforts to contain staff in company conservation tasks by way of growing sources that information the implementation of quite a lot of nature tasks throughout Solvay websites.
“It’s an honor to sign up for WHC’s Board of Administrators,” says Dominique, “and to be part of the integral paintings WHC is doing throughout industries to toughen firms on their nature-positive adventure. I’m excited for this chance to make use of my experience in company sustainability to toughen the paintings of WHC’s individuals and companions on the intersections of commercial and biodiversity.”
Says Margaret O’Gorman, President, WHC, “We’re happy to welcome Dominique to the WHC Board. His twin commitments to sustainable practices and industry construction make him a useful addition, and we look ahead to operating with Dominique to additional WHC’s undertaking of attaining industry wins for nature.”
The total WHC Board of Administrators is as follows:
Laurie Davies Adams, Director of Systems, Pollinator Partnership
Dominique Debecker, Deputy Leader Sustainability Officer, Solvay
Delf Bintakies, VP Sustainability, Protection, Well being & Setting, Bayer
Invoice Brady, Impartial Marketing consultant
William Cobb, Vice President, Leader Sustainability Officer, Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.
Edan Dionne, Vice President, Environmental, Power & Chemical Control Systems, IBM
Sunny Elebua, SVP, Leader Technique & Sustainability Officer, Exelon
Connie Hergert, Vice President Actual Property, Ontario Energy Era
Andy Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Undertaking, College of Michigan
Mark Johnston, Technique Lead, Biodiversity & Nature-based Answers, BP
Matthew Kolesar, Leader Environmental Scientist, ExxonMobil
Alan Kreisberg, Impartial Marketing consultant
Chris Would possibly, Senior Vice President of Protection, Well being and Setting, CRH
Chris Morgan, Filmmaker and Educator
Margaret O’Gorman, President, WHC
Mark Patterson, Vice President, Setting, Well being and Protection Products and services, USA, BASF
Shawn Patterson, Vice President, Environmental Control & Protection, DTE Power
Gregory Ronczka, Vice President, Setting & Sustainability, Heidelberg Fabrics
Invoice Sisson, Govt Director, WBCSD North The us
Bryan Tindell, Vice President of Disposal Operations Beef up, WM
Amber Wellman, Leader Sustainability Officer, Chemours