Jane Desbarats

Senior Policy Analyst

Specialist Subjects:

monitoring, reporting and verification; greenhouse gas baseline methodologies; greenhouse gas emissions inventories; design and implementation of climate change and energy policy

Profile:

Jane joined IEEP in April 2009 as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Climate Change and Pollution team. She has over ten years experience working on climate change and the environment in both the public and private sectors in Russia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. She obtained an undergraduate degree in political science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a graduate degree in International Relations from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Over the past ten years, Jane has acquired specialist knowledge related to greenhouse gas emissions quantification and monitoring, reporting and verification. She has gained hands-on experience applying this knowledge the following sectors: waste, agriculture, power generation, oil and gas, iron and steel, forestry and transportation. She has provided in depth analysis of the implications of greenhouse measurement issues in the context of a number of market mechanisms including emissions trading, offsets projects and the Kyoto Mechanisms. This analysis has been complete for public and private sector clients throughout North America, the Asia Pacific region, and the European Union. Jane has completed a number of specialist assignments on greenhouse gas quantification issues for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.