Our Climate Committee is responsible for providing thought leadership and industry guidance. The Committee intends to bring best-practice thinking and ongoing developments with regards to global climate science, carbon accounting methodology, nature-based projects and the voluntary carbon market.
Climate Solutions Manager
Edited: 14 May 2025
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Our committee is split into working groups - Nature, and Climate and Policy, all are comprised of experts within their field. Our working groups meet once per quarter to discuss the challenges that arise from our work, to ensure we remain at the forefront of industry developments.
Below, we introduce you to our committee members who are on board to help shape the future of Ecologi.
Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Jose is a Professor of Public Administration at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV EAESP) in Brazil. He is also the Chair of Climate Change Governance and Global Development at the Global Development Institute (GDI), the University of Manchester, and Visiting Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP), Fudan University, China.
His research and policy interests concentrate on the political economy of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and local institutions are interlinked to steer governance and action. His experience comprises work in more than 20 countries on all continents. He has been an instructor, consultant and researcher for several organizations such as different United Nations agencies, the OECD, the World Bank, sub-national and national governments, and various NGOs and small and large firms.
Previously, he held positions of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in Japan and as a faculty member at the University College London (UK) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) as an European Commission’s Marie Curie Fellow. He has published twelve books and more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a member of several journal editorial boards and advisory panels, such as Sao Paulo State Research Foundation, Belmont Forum and Wellcome Trust. He was invited to be a Coordinating Lead Author of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He holds a Ph.D. in Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
Rémi Jaligot
Rémi holds a Ph.D in Ecosystem Services assessment from EPFL and an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London. As a sustainability expert, his work primarily focuses on nature-related impact and risk assessments, biodiversity and carbon removal accounting. Rémi is devoted to better understanding the interactions and dependencies of businesses on nature and how they could fit in their climate strategy. His expertise encompasses a broad range of impact areas, including ecosystem services, voluntary carbon markets, and compliance. He also worked as a researcher and project manager on multi-stakeholder projects in Africa and the Middle East.
Daniel Souto Vilarós
Daniel’s research focuses on understanding the evolution and maintenance of plant-pollinator mutualisms by integrating molecular tools, bioinformatics, and field-based behavioural and chemical analyses. Daniel explores the mechanisms driving these interactions, investigating how trait selection, pollinator behaviour, gene flow, and nectar-inhabiting microbes shape pollination dynamics and plant reproduction. Daniel’s work spans diverse ecosystems, from tropical rainforests to alpine environments, where he conducts extensive field research. In addition to his focus on pollination ecology, he is deeply passionate about entomology and leads large-scale arthropod biodiversity surveys in tropical rainforests using metabarcoding to uncover insect diversity in some of the most species-rich environments in the world.
Ennia Bosshard
Ennia is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, researching socio-ecological dimensions of tree-based restoration in tropical smallholder farming systems. Her work explores the benefits and trade-offs of forests and trees for biodiversity, food security, and livelihoods in Kenya, with a focus on pollination as a key ecosystem service. She holds an MSc in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich, where her previous research focused on tree seed systems in Southeast Asia and market-based funding for forest restoration. Alongside her work in the tropics, Ennia is a Research Co-Director at the Thousand Year Trust, supporting research to restore and expand temperate rainforest landscapes across the UK.
Daisy Taylor
Daisy is a PhD Researcher at the University of Portsmouth, investigating how stakeholder perceptions, socio-economic factors, and ecosystem services influence the development and long-term success of marine and coastal nature-based solutions (NbS). She is particularly interested in coastal ecology and the connections between people and their local ecosystems. Alongside her PhD, Daisy has contributed to the MaCoBioS project through UK-based fieldwork and has been involved in case study research for the Blue Green Governance project.
Christophe Patterson
Christophe is a researcher with a passion for biodiversity, exploration and education. Christophe researches patterns and processes that have given rise to the amazing diversity of life we see around us. In particular, he is interested in understanding how life is changing under anthropogenic pressure, especially climate-driven shifts in species distributions. Christophe works at all scales of biology, from ecosystems to genomes. His current roles are Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and Director of Science at The Rock Pool Project. At Nottingham, he works on genomics of three-spined stickleback in the Outer Hebrides. At The Rock Pool Project, he coordinates, helps execute, and analyses their national citizen science scheme that monitors UK intertidal wildlife.
Amalia Jurado Mc Allister
Amalia holds a degree in Biology from the University of Valencia (Spain) and a Master's in Ecology and Conservation from Uppsala University (Sweden). Specialising in marine ecology, she has contributed to projects in the Baltic Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean. Currently, she works as a Marine Pollution Manager at the Marine Technology Center (CTN) in Cartagena, Spain, where she focuses on Descriptor 11 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Her research explores how various forms of energy, particularly underwater noise, impact marine biodiversity in Mediterranean waters. The findings from this project have been recommended for the development of policies at both the national level with the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and at the European Commission level.
James A. King
Dr James A. King is a climate scientist with extensive policy interests. Currently based at the University of Sheffield, his research investigates the potential unintended consequences of large-scale nature-based solution proposals across different aspects of the climate system, from water to wildfires. He has also worked on future climate projections in tropical East Africa and on air quality in the UK. His policy interests focus on fostering closer links between climate and biodiversity decision-making, and he has worked on multilateral environmental agreements from within the UK government. James holds an undergraduate degree in Geography and a DPhil (PhD) in Climate Science, both from Oxford University.
David Dennison
David is a climate risk, energy and resources specialist. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Earth Sciences, a Masters in Reservoir Geology from Imperial College, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society, London. He is also an advanced firefighter with the NSW Rural fire Service (Australia). His recent research includes a new proprietary long-term forecasting methodology for predicting wildfire severity in eastern Australia. He will shortly start his PhD in Maths and Statistics with UNSW. He also chairs a climate risk business focused on supporting the hardest to abate industries to navigate the transition to Net Zero.