About us Environmental Steering Committee

Our independent Environmental Steering Committee is mandated to scrutinise our work and ensure that we are operating to the standards we have set. This body is non-executive and has an advisory role in upholding our environmental and social standards. The Steering Committee shall initially be chaired by Prof. Maria da Graça Carvalho, Coordinator of the Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon - Portugal (and formerly of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education).

The Committee's Terms of Reference

To offer advice on environmental policy issues;

To scrutinise the environmental and social integrity of e)mission activities;

To call for appropriate third party verification of projects' emissions reductions where necessary.

The Committee's Powers

To request any data relating to e)mission's activities;
To recommend actions pertaining to the e)mission service, to Access2 Carbon Markets' management;
To publicly state any concerns if necessary and appropriate.

Environmental Steering Committee Members

Professor Maria Graça Carvalho
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal

Professor Carvalho has been with the Technical University of Lisbon since 1992, and was founder of the Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development at the IST, in the Mechanical Engineering Department. It is in this capacity that she will be the chair of the e)mission Environmental Steering Committee. She is also currently the Principal Advisor at the Bureau of European Policy Advisors, a department of the European Commission that reports directly to the President. Prior to this appointment she worked in government as the Portuguese Minister for the Environment, and before that as the President of the International Relations Bureau of Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education.

Alberto Tsamba, Researcher and Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Maputo, Mozambique

Mr Tsamba is a renewable energy and environment specialist. Coordinator of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Team he has, in the recent past, led the CD4CDM project on CDM and Kyoto Protocol capacity building in Mozambique, representing the Centro de Estudos de Engenharia-UP. He is a member of the ICSU-ROA task team on biofuels as well as a member of South South North Board of Directors. Internally, he is a member of the Mozambique Engineers Association (ORDEMO), one of the trainers on Rural Energy and Environmental Protection Program (ESAMI-DGIS) as well as private consultant on energy and environment fields.

Philip Mann, Doctoral Researcher
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Philip Mann is instigating a new inter-disciplinary programme on energy in developing countries at the ECI. Philip has over 14 years professional energy experience, devoted to strategy and policy development, and project and programme management. He has direct detailed knowledge of policy making in a multi-lateral donor organisation, as well as broad experience of project and programme design, and appraisal and management in developed and developing countries. For the last 7 years Philip has been an active Trustee of a UK-registered social welfare charity operating in Nepal. The Child Welfare Scheme specialises in child health, education, and employment issues, as well as running a biomass energy programme, initiated by Philip, promoting the use of improved cook-stoves. In September 2006 Phil began a DPhil researching: Energy planning in the developing world - synergies and trade-offs between increasing energy access for poverty reduction, energy security and climate goals.

Dr. Luís Alves, Research Scientist
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal

Dr. Alves is currently a Research Scientist in Energy and Environment at the Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development, of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He is involved in EU funded projects related to new and renewable energies in islands and remote regions at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the IST. In 1990, he was awarded a PhD with a thesis on ''Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences" by the University of Arizona (USA). He has been involved throughout his career in diverse research projects, teaching and various dissemination activities, and has also acted as Advisor for Environment for the United Nation Development Programme.- He has held top positions in Ministry Departments in Cape Verde, where he was born. Among these, he was Director of the General Directorate of Higher Education and Science at the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports from April 1997 to June 1998 and Chairman, National Commission for the Installation of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, from July 1997 to June 1998.

Prof Neven Duic, Head of Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia

Dr. Neven Duic has a vast experience of energy planning, energy policy and development and implementation of renewable energy technologies. He has coordinated various EC financed research projects, on topics including renewable energy resource mapping and development of energy plans for developing island states. Widely published in the scientific literature on energy-related questions, Dr Neven Duic has been Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb since 2004.

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