James Grabert
Mr. Grabert has been working for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) for more than 25 years. He heads the Mitigation Division of the UNFCCC, leading the work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation, including the mechanisms through which countries and companies account for and trade emission reductions under the Paris Agreement and its predecessors. Prior to 2006 he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and worked in numerous expert groups of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, contributing to the methodological work that underpins national emissions inventories. Before joining the United Nations, he was an industry and regional analyst for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Across that career he has been closely involved in the technical negotiations that translate political commitments into workable accounting rules, an area where the credibility of the entire international climate architecture ultimately rests.