Biography

Amy Merrill is the Chief Executive Officer of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), the independent global governance body that sets and enforces threshold quality standards for the voluntary carbon market.
Prior to ICVCM, Amy was Head of Global Carbon Markets at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Between 2011 and 2021, Amy led the UNFCCC support to the development of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and to negotiations and drafting of the Article 6 implementing rules adopted at COP26 (2021). Amy was also the senior lawyer at UNFCCC for the Kyoto carbon mechanisms and is a qualified UK lawyer with more than 20 years of experience. Before her time at the UNFCCC, Amy was a leading carbon and climate finance lawyer in the City of London, working with MDBs and investment banks.