UNOPS Rewires Aid Accountability: Tracking Scope 3 Emissions in the Development Sector (A Conversation with Samantha Stratton-Short)

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This episode discusses UNOPS's efforts to address Scope 3 emissions in the development sector with Samantha Stratton-Short.

The United Nations Office for Project Services, widely known as UNOPS, is pushing climate accountability into the core of development work by tackling the most elusive part of its carbon footprint: Scope 3 emissions. In this episode of DevelopmentAid Dialogues, host Hisham Allam speaks with Samantha Stratton-Short, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure and Project Management at UNOPS and Manager of the UNOPS Climate Action Programme, about a new methodology designed to map, measure, a...

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Host: Hisham Allam

Guest: Samantha Stratton-Short

Topics covered

• climate accountability
• development sector
• Scope 3 emissions
• UNOPS
• sustainability
• project management

Keywords

• UNOPS
• Scope 3 emissions
• climate action
• development aid
• sustainability
• carbon footprint

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Organizations: United Nations Office for Project Services

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