Dr Rishi Das

Dr Rishi Das is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist working on issues of climate change, biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management. For the past 11 years, his work has focused on climate change mitigation in agriculture, forestry and the land use sector, and on designing, implementing and evaluating projects, programmes and technical tools for climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable development. He has worked in 12 countries with governments, donors, NGOs and the private sector on climate change mitigation and nature-based solutions. His dissertation research was focused on the interaction between land use and climate change on tropical dry forests in the Yucatan peninsula.

Prior to joining BeZero, Rishi was the manager for technology innovations in NBS at Verra where he developed digital MRV strategy and ran a working group and pilot program on DMRV.