Gabriel is the Head of the Climate Mitigation Unit and Global Team Leader of the UN-REDD Programme at UNEP. He has more than 20 years of experience in the interphase of environment, poverty, and human development. He has worked on environmental valuation, quantitative poverty analysis, cost-benefit analysis of REDD+, and the integration of social issues into land use and biodiversity conservation policies.
Gabriel´s current work focuses on using carbon markets to support high-integrity nature-based solutions to climate change. Gabriel represents UNEP at ICAO/CORSIA and is a member of the UN Task Force on Voluntary Carbon Markets. He is also a Co-Chair of the Expert Panel of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM).
Gabriel holds a degree in Biology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a master’s degree in Economics from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
