Ron Israel is a Climate Scorecard Co-Founder and the Executive Director of The Global Citizens’ Initiative. He has extensive experience designing and implementing international development projects in the fields of environmental protection and sustainable development, global governance, and citizen participation.
Who We Are
Climate Scorecard identifies and advocates for actions that can lower emissions in leading greenhouse gas emitting countries.
Who We Are
Climate Scorecard was formed in 2015 by two concerned climate change advocates — Ron Israel, Director of the Global Citizens’ Initiative and Lois Barber, Director of the environmental advocacy group EarthAction. Its first activity was to analyze the emission reduction pledges that all countries signing the Paris Agreement were asked to make. The analysis concluded that initial Paris Agreement pledges are too low to prevent the planet from exceeding the global warming tipping point of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Therefore, Climate Scorecard began its current program of climate change reporting and advocacy. Each month a team of young environmental researchers and advocates compiles a report on efforts related to climate change mitigation in each of 20 leading greenhouse gas emitting countries. These monthly Country Spotlight Reports also rate the status of current efforts, using a four-star rating system, and contain an advocacy message aimed at changing the practices of those responsible for the activity described in the monthly report.
All of Climate Scorecard’s monthly country reports are combined and published, along with related meta-analysis of climate change trends, into a monthly Global Spotlight Report. The monthly Global Report goes out to a mailing list of several thousand environmental leaders around the world.
Climate Scorecard Staff
Lois Barber
Co-Founder
Lois Barber is a Climate Scorecard Co-Founder and the Executive Director of EarthAction. She has a 30-year history of work in the non-profit world with a focus on citizen participation in policymaking on environment, peace, and justice issues.
Marisa Young
Digital Media Coordinator
Marisa Young is an experienced Web Designer and Digital Media Specialist with a background in the arts and non-profit sectors. She holds a Masters degree in Marketing & Communications from Emerson College.
Diana Gastelum
Report Editor
Diana Gastelum is a recent graduate from Suffolk University where she studied Environmental Policy and International Relations. Diana gained an interest in doing research surrounding the energy sector and how political actions within the industry play a role in the energy transition specifically within North and South America. Diana currently works as an Energy Program Coordinator focusing on energy efficiency, decarbonization, and other distributed energy technologies in the open market.
Climate Scorecard Country Managers
Robyn Gulliver
Australia Country Manager
Carlos Alexandre de Oliveira
Brazil Country Manager
Carlos Alexandre de Oliveira holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from FMU-SP and an MBA in Business Management from FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas and UCI - University of California. He has more than 25 years of experience in various sectors of the economy (industry, commerce, finance and services). He currently lives in São Paulo-Brazil.
Diane Szoller
Canada Country Manager
Diane Szoller has been working on sustainability issues since the ’90s, including the start-up of environmental agencies on various levels - some being international, national and/or local. She has a background in finance and adult education academically and is a life long learner.
Annette Wiedenbach
China Country Manager
Annette is a MIT SPURS Fellow alumna. Prior to coming to Boston, for the past 20 years she has lived in China, Taiwan and Singapore to work in communications, public affairs and sustainability.
Brittany Demogenes
EU Country Manager
Brittany Demogenes is currently a Master of Arts in International Affairs student at Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe. She holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA where she graduated with a major in Political Science and a minor in English.
Liana Mehring
France Country Manager
Liana Mehring holds a Masters in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland. Her specialization is Environment, Resources and Sustainability with a secondary specialization in Global Health. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service) in Washington, DC where her area of focus was Culture and Politics and African Studies.
Katherine Cote
Germany Country Manager
Katherine is an industrial engineer, MBA and holds advanced studies in Sociology and has deep expertise in the maritime industry (12+years). Katherine developed over the last 4 years a passion for sustainability and ESG strategy topics, especially related to supply chain and transportation, supporting a great variety of clients in the industry itself but also energy, cargo owners, insurance and financing companies- at a top tier consulting company. She recently attended a 6 month executive course on Climate & Sustainability at Cambridge University.
Pooran Chandra Pandey
India Country Manager
Contributor to encyclopedia on sustainable development goals, Pooran Chandra Pandey is a managing director of Soent Group, a Germany based international policy consulting firm.
Netra Naik
Indonesia Country Manager
Netra is a young climate scientist, architect, and environmental planner. She is interested in how cities adapt to deal with urban heat and flooding. Her specialist areas and research focus are green infrastructures, nature-based solutions, and climate-responsive design and planning. She is an ex-International Climate Protection Humboldt Fellow from the 2021 cohort.
Kazuya Takeda
Japan Country Manager
Kazuya Takeda is a supply chain and logistics professional working in a global robotics firm. He holds a Master’s degree of business administration from University of Glasgow and is a student of Harvard Extension School (Sustainability).
Pablo David Necoechea Porras
Mexico Country Manager
Pablo Necoechea is an expert in ESG and sustainability. He holds a Bachelor and Master in Economic Development from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), a Master in Innovation from Deusto Business School, and a Master and Ph.D. Candidate in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Michael Johnson
Nigeria Country Manager
Abeer Abdulkareem
Saudi Arabia Country Manager
Abeer Abdulkareem holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University.
Amgad Ellaboudy
Saudi Arabia Country Manager
Amgad Ellaboudy is an Adjunct Faculty of Earth Science and Oceanography at Chaffey and Mount San Antonio community colleges.