Paul Zakkour worked extensively on the design of policies, regulation and monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) for integrating carbon storage technologies into EU and UN climate policy and carbon pricing over the period 2002-2012.

His recent work has focussed on policy design, MRV and accounting for negative emissions, carbon removals, CO2 utilization and the treatment of enhanced sinks under the Paris Agreement.

Paul has been a Director at Carbon Counts since 2008. Prior to this, he spent six years with ERM’s Climate Change Practice.

He is also Technical Advisor on Carbon Management at the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, and serves the UNFCCC Secretariat through its Roster of Experts on Article 6.4.

Paul also has broad experience in climate policy across Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, Middle East and Africa, covering carbon pricing programmes, low carbon project finance and preparing nationally determined contributions (NDCs).