Beatriz Granziera, Aaron Marr Page, Rick Saines, and Chris Woodall
Beatriz Granziera, Aaron Marr Page, Rick Saines, and Chris Woodall
Expectations and Emerging Priorities in Forest Carbon Accounting: A Panel Discussion
December 02, 2025 - 12:00 PM
Series co-hosts Sara Kuebbing, Kim Myers, and Julius Pasay will moderate a panel discussion reflecting on key developments from the past year and expectations for the year ahead in forest carbon accounting. Panelists will consider emerging research, policy shifts, and market trends shaping the future of credible forest carbon crediting.
Speaker Biographies
Beatriz Granziera – Senior Advisor, International Climate Policy, The Nature Conservancy
Beatriz Granziera is a Senior Policy Advisor at The Nature Conservancy, where she leads the organization’s engagement in international climate negotiations, with a particular focus on REDD+ and carbon markets. With more than a decade of experience in environmental policy and international climate strategies, she has played a central role in advancing approaches to sustainable land use and nature-based climate solutions. Granziera has authored several widely used publications, including “Article 6 Explainer,” which helps translate complex policy debates into practical guidance for governments, negotiators, and market actors. Before joining The Nature Conservancy, she served as a Cabinet Advisor at the São Paulo State Environmental Secretariat in Brazil, where she provided strategic guidance on state-level environmental and climate initiatives. She holds an MEM degree in environmental policy from Yale University and an LL.M. in environmental law from the Catholic University of São Paulo.
Aaron Marr Page – Managing Attorney, Forum Nobis
Aaron Marr Page founded Forum Nobis in 2010 and has spent two decades working at the intersection of human rights, international law and environmental issues. A human rights lawyer, Page has represented Indigenous and other local communities in landmark accountability efforts across Latin America and Africa. He is recognized for his expertise in human rights litigation in U.S. courts and the Inter-American system and has helped communities use international treaty rights to protect their lands and resources. Page also teaches human rights law at the University of Iowa College of Law, with scholarship focused on supply chains, environmental rights, carbon markets, climate tech and Indigenous rights. As a consultant, he advises leading organizations on integrating human rights frameworks into environmental conservation and climate initiatives, including tools for FPIC, due diligence and grievance systems. He also has extensive civil rights and criminal defense experience, including service as a public defender in Washington, D.C. Page began his career as a journalist covering globalization and received his law degree from the University of Michigan.
Rick Saines – Managing Partner, Arden Climate Consulting
Rick Saines is a Chambers-ranked lawyer and globally recognized leader in carbon markets with more than two decades of experience advising governments, development institutions, NGOs and companies on legal and transactional strategies for ambitious climate action. Saines previously served as a managing director at Pollination and led the North American Climate Practice at Baker McKenzie. He is a former chair of IETA and a current board member of The Climate Registry. For his contributions to the Paris Agreement, Saines was awarded France’s National Order of Merit. He is licensed to practice law in Illinois.
Chris Woodall – Director, U.S. Forest Science and Policy, CTrees
Chris Woodall is Director of U.S. Forest Science and Policy at CTrees, where he leads national efforts to build a next-generation, tree-centric digital MRV system for forest climate solutions. His recent One Earth commentary outlines a transformative vision for replacing legacy carbon ledgers with a hybrid public–private architecture capable of real-time forest intelligence, transparent climate accounting, and resilient land-sector decision-making. Before joining CTrees, Woodall spent 24 years with the USDA Forest Service, serving as National Program Leader for forest carbon quantification sciences and as a principal architect of the U.S. Forest Carbon Accounting Framework. He informed federal technical underpinnings of the Paris Agreement, the EU Deforestation Regulation, and multiple U.S. climate and forest policy initiatives, including the Executive Order on Mature and Old-Growth Forests. A widely cited researcher on carbon dynamics, forest density, and ecosystem resilience, Woodall now works at the intersection of forest science, digital intelligence, and climate markets. His current focus is designing dynamic MRV systems that restore trust, support land stewards, and enable novel financial pathways tied to verified ecological outcomes. He holds a B.S. in Forest Management from Clemson University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Silviculture from the University of Montana.
Moderators:
Sara Kuebbing – Research Scientist, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and Yale School of the Environment; Director of Research, Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program
Sara Kuebbing, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) and the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC), as well as the Director of Research for the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program (YASSP). She is trained as an ecologist with expertise in conservation biology, invasion biology, plant ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Kuebbing’s research focuses on how humans can make informed decisions about how to best protect and conserve landscapes, ecosystems, and all the species that live within them. She works with a variety of scientists, land managers, and policymakers to refine research questions and share results. Kuebbing is the inaugural Director of Research for YASSP, a collaborative research program that brings together practitioners, academics, and policymakers to develop applied science that supports sustainable land management. Prior to joining YSE, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research training includes postdoctoral positions with the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Smith Conservation Fellows Program, a Ph.D. from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, and a B.S. from the Department of Entomology & Wildlife Conservation at the University of Delaware.
Kim Myers – Portfolio & Partnerships Officer, SE Advisory Services
Julius Pasay – Executive Director, The Climate Trust
Julius Pasay oversees operations and investments at The Climate Trust to effectively deliver carbon project funding and management to landowner partners that support their land stewardship goals. Prior to joining The Climate Trust, Pasay served as the Forest Manager for Yale Forests and was a U.S. Fulbright scholar in France investigating climate-smart agroforestry techniques. Pasay is a Certified Forester and holds an M.F. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.