Expertise

Our expertise stems from years of direct involvement in climate change reasearch projects, carbon sequestration development projects, carbon management contracts and the formulation of national and international climate change policy. We are therefore able to provide informed strategic advice as well pragmatic technical solutions.

Our skills include:

• design, development and management of carbon sequestration and emission reduction projects
• development of participatory land-use planning and project monitoring procedures
• assessment of ecological and social impact of proejcts
• assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of companies, projects and product life-cycles
• establishment of technical specifications for quantification of project carbon benefits
• systems for data collection, data management and reporting
• economic simulation and optimisation
• legal and financial agreements for carbon transactions
• design of systems that are compatible with Kyoto mechanisms (CDM and JI).

In recognition of our expertise in climate change and carbon management, we have been invited to write a number of influential reports tor policy makers, including:

• IPCC Special Report on Land Use, entitled Land Use Change and Forestry (llead authors)
• 'Climate Change and Forests' section of the FAO State of the Worlds Forests 2001 report (authors)
• OECD report on baseline methodologies for the forest sector (lead authors)