Biodiversity
Carbon mapping
Co-benefits
Conservation science
eDNA
Forest carbon
Geospatial sciences
GIS
Remote sensing
Safeguards
Satellite imagery
Sustainable Development Goals
Torrey Sanseverino is an environmental scientist whose work focuses on the intersections of climate change, international development, and spatial analysis. She specialises in assessing the beyond carbon impacts of carbon projects including safeguards and SDGs as well as the development of biodiversity markets. Her dissertation research examined the effects of El Niño on agriculture in northern Peru.
Before completing her master's degree, she was a spatial analyst at the civil engineering company DPSI Inc. and project manager of an Engineers Without Borders Malawi team where she implemented engineering projects in partnership with a community in southern Malawi.
Education
University of St Andrews, MSc in Sustainable Development
Exploring rice methane projects, and whether new methodologies and improved MRV techniques could lead to their resurgence in the VCM
Findings that show carbon credits with SDG claims command price premiums, and how BeZero’s research increases the transparency of such claims.