Craig Ebert

Craig Ebert’s served as the President of the Climate Action Reserve where he was responsible for ensuring that the organization’s activities met the highest standards for quality, transparency and environmental integrity. This included overseeing the organization’s continued leadership and commitment to ensuring offsets are a trusted and powerful economic tool for reducing emissions.

Over his career, Craig has helped create the foundations for international, national and state policies to address climate change. He supported U.S. negotiations on international climate change agreements, including negotiations leading up to the creation and signing of the Kyoto Protocol, and helped develop the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) provisions under the protocol. Craig’s work also involved pioneering efforts on carbon accounting principles and methodologies. He served as the technical director of Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, which was adopted by the IPCC as its GHG Inventory Programme, and was a key architect behind the development of the official U.S. national GHG inventory to meet commitments under the UNFCCC.

Prior to his work with the Climate Action Reserve, Craig advised the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) and served at ICF for nearly 34 years.