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Senior scientific manager at CMCC, PhD in forest ecology with scientific background in forestry and climate change. Since 2003, she has been involved in the UNFCCC negotiations, providing technical and scientific support to the Italian Delegation on issues related to agriculture, LULUCF and REDD+. Her research activity is focused on the link between the scientific and policy communities in several EU Funded research projects (EU FP7 project LUC4C 2013-2017; ongoing H2020 project: VERIFY; COCO2 and PARIS-REINFORCE). Between 2003 and 2007 she was actively involved as forestry expert in various international projects as team leader or as forest carbon sequestration expert within AR CDM project development activities at several stages. Amongst others, she worked in China, Argentina, Mozambique, Ghana, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia for the Italian Ministry of Environment and Territory, in Albania and Ukraine within BioCarbon Fund projects, in Albania again with the World Bank and in India within an EU funded project in Haryana. She is currently the Italian representative at the Working Group 5 at the EU Climate Change Committee on “Implementation of the LULUCF Decision and policy development of the land use, land use change and forestry sector (529/2013)”. GEO Programme Board alternate representative for Italy, since July 2020 she is chairing the sub Group on Mitigation of the Climate Change Working Group at GEO.
ULTIME PUBBLICAZIONI
- The misconception of soil organic carbon sequestration notion: When do we achieve climate benefit?
- The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2020
- The consolidated European synthesis of CH₄ and N₂O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2019.
- Palm oil’s contribution to the United Nations sustainable development goals: outcomes of a review of socio-economic aspects.
- On the use of Earth Observation to support estimates of national greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the Global stocktake process: lessons learned from ESA-CCI RECCAP2.
- Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions
- Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress.
- The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2018
- Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement: How can the research community effectively contribute?
- Balancing Emissions and Removals in the Land Sector: The View from the EU