Andrew Howard leads Verra’s strategic work to develop opportunities for its carbon standards and build greater ambition in climate action. He works with market initiatives as well as government and international programs to shape new policy frameworks. Andrew’s engagement with Verra continues over 20 years of developing climate policy and carbon markets, originally in New Zealand, then with the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat to build markets under the Kyoto Protocol and coordinate the UNFCCC negotiations to develop Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and then as a consultant to governments, international institutions and business.