Kevin Birn is responsible for Carbon and emissions research at S&P Global Commodity Insights. This includes carbon markets, carbon management, emissions modelling, insight and analytics.  Kevin’s responsibilities also include leading The Center of Emissions Excellence, which is a special research area dedicated to accelerating, ensuring consistency, connecting and promoting the emissions quantification capabilities across Commodity Insights business lines.  Kevin has over a decade of experience engaging in and advising governments, companies and industry on emission accounting estimation as well as decarbonization strategies.  Kevin is currently a board member at Emissions Reduction Alberta, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affair Institute, and an advisor at Avatar Innovations.  He holds an undergraduate degree in business and a graduate degree in economics from the University of Alberta.