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 Marta Torres Gunfaus
Marta Torres
Gunfaus is the
Mitigation Action Plans and
Scenarios (MAPS) Programme Research Coordinator at ERC
Qualifications:
MSc in Industrial Engineering – RWTH,
Germany, UPC Spain
Current research interest:
Marta’s main research focus is domestic and
international climate change mitigation policy, Marta’s main
research focus is domestic and international climate change
mitigation policy, economic evaluation and interaction with
development policies. She is interested in the design and evaluation
of climate policies, including cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, carbon
budgets and NAMA-related instruments, as well as climate finance.
Significant research in the past has focused on MRV, capacity
building and institutional framework for domestic mitigation action.
Marta has worked in the private and public sector, and moved
recently to the University of Cape Town as Chief Research Officer.
Marta is currently the Research Coordinator of the
MAPS (Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios) programme, a
south-south collaboration project to build country-level mitigation
scenarios, combining research and stakeholder participation, under a
high-level governmental mandate, with pilot projects now in
Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
Current focus areas include:
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Mitigation Action Plans and
Scenarios
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Post-2012 climate change regime
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Mitigation and Poverty
alleviation
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Nationally Appropriate Mitigation
Action in developing countries
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Low Carbon Development Strategies
Selected recent
publications:
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Catalan Climate Change Office.
Progress report towards 2008-2012 mitigation targets in
Catalonia. December 2010
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Catalan Climate Change Office.
Strategy for Electric Vehicle implementation in Catalonia.
September, 2010
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Catalan Climate Change Office.
Mitigation Action Plan 2010. April, 2010
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Catalan Climate Change Office.
Public mitigation policies and measures in 2008 and 2009.
Government of Catalonia. March, 2010
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M.Torres, N.Valero. Mitigation
Scenario for 2050 in Spain. WWF. February 2009
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T.Solanas,
D.Calatayud, C.Claret, et.al 34 kg de CO2. Book chapter:
International climate policies: from theory to practice by
M.Torres. May 2009
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M.Vieweg, M.Torres, C.Doets,
S.Wartmann, et al. Linking developing countries to carbon
markets. Cost assessment of capacity building requirements.
April 2009
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M.Torres, A.Gardiner, J.Greenleag,
A.Pueyo, GHG Abatement opportunities for non-EU ETS sectors in
Catalonia post 2012. December, 2007
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J.W.Bode, M.Vosbeek, M.Torres, Project
Developer’s Manual for Gold Standard Voluntary Offset Projects.
Ecofys, commissioned by The Gold Standard.
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