Claudia Jurado

As an Analytical Associate, Claudia supports the operation and administration of the Climate Action Reserve’s carbon credit programs and contributes to policy development, maintenance, and refinement of the Reserve’s offset protocols in Mexico and expansion throughout Latin America.

Claudia is passionate about nature-based solutions for addressing climate change challenges. Throughout her career, she has worked on socio-environmental projects in Mexico, Spain, and Canada. In addition, she has collaborated on important carbon pricing projects and provided support to Latin American and Caribbean jurisdictions. Claudia has a diverse background that includes working in the public sector with the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, in academia at Mexican and Canadian Universities, and as a commercial analyst in carbon market consulting. This has given her a broad understanding of the environmental policy landscape and carbon markets.

Originally from Mexico City, Claudia moved to Canada to attend the University of Waterloo, where she earned her master’s degree in Social and Ecological Sustainability. Her dissertation analyzed the stakeholders’ interests to adopt carbon pricing policies –carbon tax and ETS–currently in practice in Mexico. Furthermore, Claudia held a summer internship at the University of British Columbia, where she worked on an important research project related to sustainable agriculture. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Claudia thoroughly enjoyed her fieldwork abroad in Asturias, Spain, where she studied socio-ecological tensions between livestock owners and ecologists at the Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa.