Advisory Board
Joanes Atela
Dr. Joanes Atela is the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN), where he leads research and policy initiatives on climate resilience, sustainable development, and evidence-informed decision-making across Africa. His research focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate finance, natural resource governance, climate and health, and the science-policy interface.
Further information on Joanes’ work can be found here.
Ciniro Costa Junior
Ciniro Costa Jr. is a Scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (CGIAR), where he leads the CIAT Greenhouse Gas Laboratory and serves as Impact Lead for Sustainable Finance within CGIAR. His work focuses on climate finance, agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation, and the development of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems to support climate-smart investments.
He collaborates with multilateral development banks, climate funds, governments, and private sector companies to develop climate strategies, quantify emissions reductions, and mobilize finance for low-emission and climate-resilient food systems. His expertise includes livestock methane mitigation, soil carbon sequestration, and agricultural carbon markets across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Rosaleen V Duffy
Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of International Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is a political ecologist whose research focuses on the global politics of biodiversity conservation, especially global environmental governance, wildlife trafficking, poaching, transfrontier conservation, and tourism.
Further information on Rosaleen’s work can be found here.
Barbara Evans
Barbara Evans holds the chair in Public Health Engineering at the University of Leeds. She works on technical and institutional aspects of resilient sanitation and water services, with a particular focus on equity. Recently she has been leading work to improve empirical and modelling methods for the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from sanitation.
Further information on Barbara’s work can be found here.
James France
James holds a dual position, working as a Senior International Methane Scientist for Environmental Defense Fund and as a Senior Research Fellow for Royal Holloway University of London. He is also seconded to act as Scientific Lead for the Methane Science Studies component of the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Methane Emissions Observatory. He has over 15 years of methane science research experience, mainly focusing on methodologies for quantification, attribution, and detection of methane emissions from natural and anthropogenic sources.
Further information on James’s work can be found here.
Barry Rabe
Barry Rabe is the Arthur Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Rabe is a political scientist who studies the political feasibility and durability of climate policy, including short-lived climate pollutants.
Further information on Barry’s work can be found here.
Mihai Stoica
Mihai Stoica is the Executive Director of 2Celsius, a climate and environmental NGO based in Bucharest, Romania. His work centres on the adoption and implementation of environmental regulation in Romania — spanning methane, f-gases, air quality, transport & mobility — bridging EU-level policy frameworks with national institutional realities through research, advocacy, and community-level action. On methane, his work spans the energy, waste, and agriculture sectors, pairing independent field investigations and data with public engagement and advocacy that connects the science to policymakers, industry, artists, and frontline communities.
Catherine Witherspoon
Super pollutant advisor at large. Former California air pollution regulator with 20+ years of frontline experience, followed by two decades of international consultancy work on integrating air quality and non-CO2 mitigation. Brings pragmatic, politically-attuned, action-oriented perspective to METHPOL project.
Further information on Catherine’s work can be found here.