Leota Namulauulu Lalomanu Kosi Latu is a Samoan lawyer and diplomat who served as Director-General of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme from 2016 to 2022.
[3] From 2006 to 2008 he worked for the United Nations Office for Project Services alongside the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat in Suva, Fiji.
[3] From the beginning of his term as Director he was a strong voice on climate change, urging Pacific nations to speak up[5] and demanding rich nations show greater ambition in reducing emissions.
[6] At the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice he urged countries to hold temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
[7] In 2019, he opened the Pacific Climate Change Centre in Apia, Samoa, to serve as a regional research center on the issue.