Melanie Hobson Director

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My work as co-chair of the UN/ECE TFEIP Projections Expert Panel aims to improve emission projections estimates

Melanie Hobson, Director

Melanie provides a broad range of expertise across air quality pollutant and greenhouse gas emission estimates, projections and mitigation actions as well as Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV). She has provided support to numerous countries around the world in undertaking reviews, developing their air quality and greenhouse gas emissions inventories and MRV / transparency systems and providing capacity building. Countries include those in Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Africa, the UAE and many European Countries. She is a qualified UNFCCC GHG inventory reviewer for the energy sector and Biennial Transparency Reports and is a co-chair of the UN/ECE TFEIP Projections Expert Panel, which aims to improve national emission projections estimates. Melanie also provides technical advice to Aether’s air quality assessment team.

When not at work, Melanie can be found triathlon training, dinghy sailing and attempting to grow fruit and vegetables.

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Skills

  • Development of project level, city, regional and national greenhouse gas and air quality pollutant inventories, projections and mitigation analysis
  • Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV), Transparency and National Systems
  • Air pollution dispersion modelling and air quality assessments
  • Project management and co-ordination of teams
  • Training and capacity building

Contact me: +44 1865 259200

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