María José Sanz Sánchez

Dr. María J. Sanz is IKERBASQUE Professor and Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), centre of excellence of the Basque Government and Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu, where she leads a multidisciplinary research team with the view that the Climate Change poses a challenge to humanity that requires the integration of different understandings, worldviews and innovative approaches, and thus the collaboration and integration among scientists from different scientific disciplines, from the start. She was Air Pollution Effects and Carbon Cycle Program Director at the Centre for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean (CEAM) in Valencia for 15 years, while advising the Spanish Government on Land Uses and Forestry issues at the UNFCCC multilateral negotiations for seven years, as well as the EU Commission and US EPA on Air Quality regulations. Member of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the UNFCCC and co-Chair of its Afforestation and Reforestation Meth Panel in 2007. Senior Officer at the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn for five years (2007-2011) and UNREDD Programme Coordinator at FAO for four years (2012-2015). She received the Noble Peace Price in 2007 as IPCC Author to which she is being contributing since 2003 to various reports. She is being advisor of the Green Climate Fund, BioCarbon Fund of the World Bank, CIFOR, FAO and several developing country governments on Forestry and Land Use issues.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD on Biological Sciences by the University of Valencia
• Post Doc at the Arizona State University

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Air Pollution Effects and Carbon Cycle Program Director at the Centre for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean (CEAM) in Valencia
• Senior Officer and Team Leader, Adaptation, Technology and Science Program, UNFCCC Secretariat, Bonn, Germany
• Scientific Director of the I2C2, Zaragoza, Spain
• Programme Coordinator, UNREDD Programme, FAO, Rome
• Scientific Director Basque Centre for Climate Change, Leioa, Spain

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Associated Lecturer at the University of Valencia

COURSES

Botany – 4^th Course – Biological Sciences

LATEST PUBLICATIONS / PUBLICATION JOURNAL WEB (LAST 7 YEARS)

Indexed articles

1. Herold, M. … Sanz, M.J. and Desy, V. 2019. The role and need for space-based forest biomass-related measurements in environmental management. Surveys in Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-019-09510-6.
2. Sainz de Murieta, E.; Galarraga, I.; Sanz-Sanchez, M.J. 2018. COP23: Technical profile with relevant political support. Dyna 93, 22-24. DOI (10.6036/8685).
3. Grassi G., House J., Kurz W.A., Cescatti A., Houghton R.A., Peters G.P., Sanz M.J., Viñas R.A., Alkama R., Arneth A., Bondeau A., Dentener F., Fader M., Federici S., Friedlingstein P., Jain A.K., Kato E., Koven C.D., Lee D., Nabel J.E.M.S., Nassikas A.A.,. 2018. Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks. Nature Climate Change. 8. (10) 914-920. DOI (10.1038/s41558-018-0283-x).
4. Roman De Lara, M.V., Sanz Sanchez, M.J. y Galarraga Gallastegui, I. 2017. La COP22 de Marrakech confirma el compromiso mundial con la lucha contra el cambio climático. Dyna. 92. (2) 133-135 . DOI (10.6036/8273).
5. Haeni, M. and Zweifel, R. and Eugster, W. and Gessler, A. and Zielis, S. and Bernhofer, C. and Carrara, A. and Grünwald, T. and Havránková, K. and Heinesch, B. and Herbst, M. and Ibrom, A. and Knohl, A. and Lagergren, F. and Law, B. E. and Marek, M. and Matteucci, G. and McCaughey, J. H. and Minerbi, S. and Montagnani, L. and Moors, E. and Olejnik, J. and Pavelka, M. and Pilegaard, K. and Pita, G. and Rodrigues, A. and Sanz Sánchez, M. J. and Schelhaas, M.-J. and Urbaniak, M. and Valentini, R. and Varlagin, A. and Vesala, T. and Vincke, C. and Wu, J. and Buchmann, N. 2017. Winter respiratory C losses provide explanatory power for net ecosystem productivity. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 122:  243–260, doi:10.1002/2016JG003455.
6. Sanz-Cobeña, L. Lassaletta, E. Aguilera, A. del Prado, J. Garnier, G. Billen, A. Iglesias, B. Sanchez, G. Guardia, D. Abalos, D. Plaza-Bonilla, I. Puigdueta, R. Moral, E. Galan, H. Arriaga, P. Merino, J. Infante-Amate, A. Meijide, G. Pardo, J. Alvaro-Fuentes, C. Gilsanz, D. Baez, J. Doltra, S. Gonzalez-Ubierna, M.L. Cayuela, S. Menendez, E. Diaz-Pines, J. Le-Noe, M. Quemada, F. Estelles, S. Calvet, H.van Grinsven, H. Westhoek, M.J. Sanz, B. Sanchez-Jimeno, A. Vallejo, P. Smith. 2017. Strategies for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in Mediterranean agriculture: A review. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 238:5-24. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2016.09.038
7. F. N. Tubiello, M. Salvatore, A. F. Ferrara, S. Rossi, R. Biancalani, R. D. Condor Golec, Sandro Federici, H. Jacobs, A. Flammini, P. Prosperi, P. Cardenas, J. Schmidhuber, M. J. Sanz-Sanchez, P. Smith, J. House. & N. Srivastava. 2015.  The Contribution of Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use activities to Global Warming, 1990-2012: Not as high as in the past. Global Change Biology, 6: 2655-2660. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12865
8. F. Berninger, S. Susiluoto, D. Gianelle, M. Bahn, G. Wohlfahrt, M. Sutton, J. Garcia-Pausas, C. Gimeno, M. J. Sanz, S. Dore, N. Rogiers, M. Furger, W. Eugster, M. Balzarolo, M. T. Sebastià, J. Tenhunen, T. Staszewski, and A. Cernusca. 2015. Management and site effects on carbon balances of European mountain meadows and rangelands. Boreal Environment Research 20: 748–760.
9. Maniatis, D., Gaugris, J., Mollicone, D, Scriven, J., Corblin, A, Ndikumagenge. C, Aquino, A, Crete, P. & M.J. Sanz-Sanchez. 2013. Financing and current capacity for REDD+ readiness and monitoring, measurement, reporting and verification in the Congo Basin. Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20120310.
10. Sanz-Sanchez, M, Herold, M  & Penman, J. 2013. REDD+ related forest monitoring remains a key issue: a report following the recent UN climate conference in Doha.  Carbon Management (2013) 4(2).

Other

1. J. Sanz, J. de Vente, J.-L. Chotte, M. Bernoux, G. Kust, I. Ruiz, M. Almagro, J.-A. Alloza, R. Vallejo, V. Castillo, A. Hebel, and M. Akhtar-Schuster. 2017. Sustainable Land Management contribution to successful land-based climate change adaptation and mitigation. A Report of the Science-Policy Interface. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn, Germany.
2. GFOI (2016). Integration of remote-sensing and ground-based observations for estimation of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases in forests: Methods and Guidance from the Global Forest Observations Initiative, Edition 2.0, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. (Author)
3. FAO. 2016. Forestry for a low-carbon future. Integrating forest and Wood products in climate change strategies. FAO Forestry Paper 177. Rome, 181 p.
4. UNEP (2015). The Emissions Gap Report 2015. Author in Chapter 6: “Mitigation potential from forest-related activities and incentives for enhanced action in developing countries”. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi. ISBN 978-92-807-3134-7.
5. IPCC (2014). “2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands (Wetlands Supplement)” was adopted/accepted by the IPCC Plenary at its 37th session (IPCC 37) in Batumi, Georgia, 14-18 October 2013, and was published on 28 February 2014
6. IPCC (2014)  “2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol (KP Supplement)”, was adopted/accepted by the IPCC Plenary at its 37th session (IPCC 37) in Batumi, Georgia, 14-18 October 2013, and was published on 28 February 2014.
7. Several Authors (MJ Sanz). 2013. Chapter 3. Trends in land use and ecosystem services in LAC. In: Water and Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Status and Challenges, Editors:  Bárbara A. Willaarts, Alberto Garrido,M. Ramón Llamas. Fundacion Botín. Earthscan.
8. Federici, S., Grassi, G., Harris, N., Lee, D., Neeff, T., Penman, J., Sanz, M.J., and Wolosin, M. (2017). GHG Fluxes from Forests: An assessment of national GHG estimates and independent research in the context of the Paris Agreement.
9. Lee, D. and Sanz, M.J. (2017).  UNFCCC Accounting for Forests: What’s in and what’s out of NDCs and REDD+. http://www.climateandlandusealliance.org/reports/forests-ndcs-redd/