Experts & Staff

Cynthia Cummis is a Senior Associate with the GHG Protocol team at WRI and currently manages the development of the GHG Protocol Scope 3 and Product Standards.

She brings more than 10 years of experience in GHG accounting. Cynthia comes from Clear Carbon Consulting where she was Director of Carbon Management, managing carbon quantification and GHG management projects for multiple Fortune 500 clients. Cynthia was the founding Director of U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders program, where for more than 5 years she led the design and implementation of the program and oversaw its’ growth to more than 90 corporate partners. In this position, she managed the development of the Climate Leaders inventory protocols and advised dozens of companies on completion of a corporate GHG inventory. While at EPA, Ms. Cummis was closely involved in the development of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard as a representative on the Editorial Committee for the first version and a member of the Revision Working Group for the revised edition. She is currently also a faculty member of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute instructing a course on the basics of GHG accounting.