Paul Zakkour is a founding Director of Carbon Counts, a consultancy specialised in international climate change policy. The focus of its work is on low carbon technology development, deployment, financing and regulation.
Paul has provided consulting advice to a wide range of international organisations including the International Energy Agency, the European Commission, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Climate Technology Centre and Network, the UNFCCC and UNIDO. His advisory work with national governments includes the UK, Botswana, China, Chile, Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Consultancy advice has also been provided to a number of FTSE25 companies.
During his career Paul has worked across a wide range of climate change topics and mitigation technologies, and has a deep knowledge of many aspects of climate policy. This ranges from the design of policies, regulations, strategies and incentives; policy reviews; economic assessments and financing instruments; and, the design of RD&D development.
He also has extensive experience in implementation aspects such as measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), monitoring & evaluation, emission accounting frameworks, and legal and regulatory aspects of low carbon technology development and deployment. He has also undertaken several economic and regulatory impact assessments of climate-related policies and measures including competitiveness and carbon leakage effects.
He has particular technical expertise in emissions intensive industries (power, cement, iron & steel), upstream oil & gas, geothermal energy, carbon capture, utilisation and storage and biodigestion.
A snapshot of 20+ years of climate policy analysis can be viewed here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=aeURG-gAAAAJ