Ron Israel is a Climate Scorecard Co-Founder and the Executive Director of The Global Citizens’ Initiative.
Who We Are
Climate Scorecard identifies and advocates for actions that can lower emissions in leading greenhouse gas emitting countries and support the Paris Agreement.
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.
Each Climate Scorecard Country Spotlight Report gets posted on Climate Scorecard’s website, viewed by 10,000 visitors a month, and on Climate Scorecard’s Facebook and Twitter pages that get hundreds of likes and retweets a month. In addition, 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 has recently launched a High Ambition Country Coalition Campaign. The goal of this Campaign is to organize a network of concerned organizations in each country that can advocate for their countries to strengthen their Paris Agreement pledge before November 2020, the date all countries are expected to submit a revised pledge.
Climate Scorecard Staff
Lois Barber
Co-Founder
Lois Barber is a Climate Scorecard Co-Founder and the Executive Director of EarthAction.
Marisa Young
Digital Media Coordinator
Marisa Young manages all digital content and communications for Climate Scorecard.
Climate Scorecard Country Managers
Julian Atchison
Australia Country Manager
Julian Atchison is an MSc graduate from the University of Melbourne in Zoology.
Luiza Karpavicius
Brazil Country Manager
Luiza Karpavicius is a Msc Student in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) with a Bachelor degree in Economic Science from the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
Diane Szoller
Canada Country Manager
Diane Szoller has been working on sustainability issues since the ’90s, including the start-up of several agencies.
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.
Stephanie Tapolsky
France Country Manager
Stephanie is a current masters student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies studying International Economics and Energy Resource and Environment. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vassar College.
Zahi Badra
Germany Country Manager
Zahi Badra is an MA graduate from Berlin Technical University, involved with environmental issues as an academic, journalist and entrepreneur since the mid-2000's.
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.
Ruby Orim
Indonesia Country Manager
Yun Tzu (Allison) Lin
Japan Country Manager
Yun-Tzu is a climate justice activist working as the international outreach lead for Fridays For Future Japan and Climate Youth Japan to reflect young people's perspectives in Japan's climate policies.
Patricia Prat
Mexico Country Manager
Patricia holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also pursuing a Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility and Innovation from the Harvard Extension School.
Peter Hansen
Nigeria Country Manager
Peter is currently a graduate student at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) concentrating in International Development and International Economics. Previously, he lived in Lagos, Nigeria for 5 years.
Maria Stambler
Russia Country Manager
Maria Stambler is an experienced communications professional with a passion for sustainability and environmentalism.
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.
Tabana Mailula
South Africa Country Manager
Tabana Mailula is a GIS and Environmental Consultant with a passion in Renewable Energy and Climate Change policies. She holds Honours BSc in Environmental Monitoring and Modelling.
Wendy Paredes
Spain Country Manager
Wendy Paredes holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and is a Master in Environmental Systems graduate from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico.
Neebir Banerjee
Thailand Country Manager
Neebir Banerjee is a recent graduate from University of Toronto with an Honors Bachelor of Science degree.
Barış Can Sever
Turkey Country Manager
Barış Can Sever completed his master degree in the Department of International Relations at Yaşar University after he had graduated from Izmir University of Economics with his bachelor degree in the Department of International Relations and European Union.
Anastaisa Bushoska
Ukraine Country Manager
Gwen Wren
UK Co-Country Manager
Gwen has a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Environment and Development at McGill University where she gained experience in climate policy research.
Thomas Christensen
UK Co-Country Manager
Thomas Christensen recently completed a Master's in Environmental Policy & Technology as well as two years of research at Imperial College London's Centre for Environmental Policy. He has published journal articles in the rapidly growing field of the European bioeconomy and specializes in full value chain thinking and innovation.
Stephanie Gagnon
United States Country Manager
Stephanie Gagnon is a current masters student at Boston University studying International Relations and Environmental Policy.