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Sarah Heard

Senior Director, Beyond Carbon

Sarah Heard's interests

  • Biodiversity

  • Climate Finance

  • Co-benefits

  • Conservation science

  • Environmental economics

  • Environmental policy

  • ESG

  • Government engagement

  • Investment research

  • Investment strategy

  • Natural Capital

  • Nature-based solutions

  • Public Finance

  • Sustainable Development Goals

  • Water resources

  • Blue Carbon

  • Forestry

  • Soil Carbon & Agriculture

  • Ocean-Based Carbon Removals

  • Afforestation, Reforestation & Restoration

  • Avoided Deforestation

  • Biomass (Heat & Electricity)

  • Grasslands

  • Improved Forest Management

  • Other Wetlands

Sarah Heard is an expert in sustainable development, with a focus on creating new markets that align environmental and economic incentives.

Before joining BeZero, she led an innovative function at The Nature Conservancy that used market-based mechanisms to accelerate conservation outcomes and was a consultant on corporate sustainability and environmental economics.

Selected publications

2022, Valuing the Flood Reduction Benefits of Marsh Restoration

2021, Wildfire Resilience Insurance: Quantifying the Risk Reduction of Ecological Forestry with Insurance

Education

  • UC-Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Master of Environmental Planning

  • UC-Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Master of Public Policy

Research associations

  • Member of California Water Commission's Groundwater Trading Stakeholder Advisory Group

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