Mary Grady

Reducing tropical deforestation is critical to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. We must urgently scale results and finance to protect and restore tropical forests, which is why REDD+ is transitioning to jurisdictional scale and why market-based crediting mechanisms, such as ART, are being implemented to complement non-market finance. In this session we will explore the role of standards for ensuring environmental and social integrity of jurisdictional REDD+ results.

Speaker Biography

Mary Grady has been active in environmental markets for 30 years including 14 years at nonprofit Winrock International where she serves as the Executive Director of the Secretariat for the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) as well as the Executive Director of ACR’s operations in the California regulated market and global voluntary carbon markets. Mary secured approval of both ART and ACR to supply credits to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). She actively represents Winrock as the head of delegation as an Observer NGO to the UNFCCC and serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Prior to working in carbon markets, Mary worked for 16 years in the renewable energy industry including as the Operations Leader of Clipper Windpower and in Brazil as the Director of Kyocera Solar’s pioneering rural electrification program. She holds a Masters in International Business and speaks Portuguese and Spanish.