Climate Asset Management has hired Amy Merrill Steen, the former United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations lead for 'Article 6' of the Paris Agreement, as a senior legal counsel.
Climate Asset Management, a partnership between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, provides nature-based solutions for institutional investors and corporations. Its Nature Based Carbon Strategy aims to unlock a supply of high impact and high integrity carbon credits to support corporates and investors with their Net Zero targets.
At COP26, Merrill Steen led the UNFCCC secretariat's support to conclude negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She was also the legal adviser to the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board and served as the Secretary to the Paris Implementation and Compliance Committee and the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee.
Before joining the UNFCCC in 2011, Merrill Steen was the senior associate of the climate change and climate finance practice at Linklaters in London.