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Taryn Fransen is a Senior Associate with the GHG Protocol Initiative at the World Resources Institute, where she oversees the design and implementation of GHG management programs in developing countries.

She has led the design and implementation of national programs to measure and manage corporate GHG emissions in Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines, and contributed to similar programs in China and India. Ms. Fransen’s expertise includes corporate- and project-level GHG accounting and reporting, GHG program design, corporate climate change strategy, and international climate change policy. She has also authored curriculum on corporate GHG accounting for the GHG Management Institute.

Prior to joining WRI, Ms. Fransen was Associate Program Officer at the United Nations Foundation, where she co-managed a portfolio of projects to engage institutional investors on climate change issues and attract financing for sustainable energy development. She has also served as a consultant on markets for ecosystem services for the World Wildlife Fund, and as Business Solutions Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Ms. Fransen holds an M.S. and B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University. She has worked internationally throughout Asia and Latin America and speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Working papers:

• Enhancing Today’s MRV Framework to Meet Tomorrow’s Needs: The Role of National Communications and Inventories (PDF, 20 pages, 252 Kb)
• Measuring The Way to a New Global Climate Agreement (PDF, 15 pages, 203 Kb)
  Measuring, Reporting and Verifying in a Post-2012 Climate Regime