Barb Bamberger

About Barb Bamberger

Barbara serves as core staff on the California Cap and Trade Program and the California Forest Offsets Program and Tropical Forest Standard. She has been with CARB\'s Climate Change group since 2008, working on carbon accounting and climate change, as well as regulatory development and implementation. She works regularly with stakeholders at all levels and State and Federal agencies. Barbara holds two masters degrees from the Yale School of Forestry and from the Sustainable International Development Program at Brandeis University\'s Heller School of Social Policy. Barbara received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and is a proud cheesehead. Barbara has served as lead scientist in several studies on the impact of natural resource extraction on local communities; she spent four years analyzing the oil and gas impacts on Alaska Native communities in the North Slope of Alaska, and worked with local government developing local climate change plans. Her work has always centered on the impact of natural resource policy on local and indigenous communities.

Experience

1. Climate Change - Forest Offset Team

   California Air Resources Board

   May 2008 — Present · Sacramento, CA, US

   Member of the core team implementing forest carbon programs and developing regulatory language for compliance with California’s Cap and Trade program and the California Tropical Forest Standard. I work on forest carbon and climate change with regard to forests - wildfire risk, offsets, conversion, carbon accounting, regulatory conformance, remote sensing data products, and so on. Core staff on sectoral tropical forests, primarily with regard to social safeguards and forest carbon accounting.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  B.S., Economics

  1980 — 1984

• The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University

  Master of Science - MS, Sustainable International Development

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Economics , Natural Resources and Social Policy

• Yale University

  MEM, Forestry and Environmental Stucies

  2000 — 2001

• Brandeis University

  M.A., Sustainable International Development

  1999 — 2001

• United Nations University - Amman Jordan

  International Leadership Academy - peace/conflict

  1998 — 1998

• Brandeis University

  Sustainable International Development , Natural Resources Conservation and Research

• Brandeis University

  Master of Science - MS, Sustainable International Development

• Yale University

  Forestry and Environmental Science, Forest Science

Skills

• Urban Forestry
• North Slope
• Gis
• Forestry
• Environmental Science
• Sustainability
• Offshore Drilling
• Environmental Policy
• Carbon Offsets
• Forest Carbon
• Offsets
• Ethnography
• Gender
• Environmental Awareness
• Applied Anthropology
• Research
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Forest Management
• Climate Change
• Policy Analysis
• Carbon
• Public Policy
• Cap and Trade
• Policy
• Indigenous
• Climate Change Impacts