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Adrien Tofighi-Niaki is a freelance research consultant in environmental and climate justice. ​He holds a MSc from the University of Amsterdam in International Development with a focus on Export Credit Agency fossil fuel financing with Both ENDS. In 2017 he launched Project HEARD, a resource platform for environmental activists and land rights defenders resisting extractive industry violence, which led to the Zero Tolerance Initiative's Collective Protection Microsite. ​Currently, he's a Senior Climate Researcher with Corporate Accountability and also coordinates the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts Observation Network and Research on Indigenous Data Governance Protocols at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB). Research he's led on or contributed to has featured in the BBC, The Guardian and NPR among others. Adrien has worked with environmental, research and human rights organisations in Boston, San Francisco, Barcelona and Amsterdam, and speaks English, French and Spanish.

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​​> Climate and environmental policy and corporate accountability.

> ESG frameworks, sustainability claims and performance assessments (Scope 3 emissions, voluntary carbon markets, greenwashing, financing, transparency).

> Extractive industry investigative research and analysis (energy transition mining, logging, fossil fuels).

> Land-, community- and human rights research and capacity building.

> Community-based monitoring and data sovereignty mechanisms. 

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