Daniel Martino
(photo courtesy Leila Mead/ISSD)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is sorry to learn of the death of Daniel Martino. Dr Martino was a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on agriculture in the Working Group III contribution (mitigation of climate change) to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, published in 2007.
Among his other work for the IPCC, Dr Martino was a Lead Author on the Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, published in 2008. Dr Martino also contributed greatly to the work of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, serving as a Lead Author on several chapters of its 2006 Guidelines and as a Lead Author on Chapter 4 of the 2003 Good Practice Guidance on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). At the time of his death he had been nominated as an author for the 2013 Good Practice Guidance on LULUCF.
In the attached photo, Dr Martino is shown addressing the Bonn climate talks in April 2009, noting that two thirds of the mitigation potential in agriculture is in developing countries.
Dr Martino was a partner, founder and executive director of the Uruguayan company Carbosur, which specializes in offering services in climate change, especially mitigation.