Programme Officer Carbon Finance, Hivos
Harry Clemens is Programme Officer Carbon Finance for the Green Enterpreneurship Programme of Hivos, based in the Netherlands. He has worked in rural development and finance, including agricultural markets, food security, microfinance, rural finance and carbon finance. At Hivos he is in charge of development and monitoring of CDM and Voluntary Gold Standard projects for domestic biogas in South East Asia, East Africa and Central America. Currently the scope is expanding to Agriculture, Food and Landscapes to provide incentives for sustainable food systems and ecosystem services. Mr. Clemens is a development economist who graduated at the Free University of Amsterdam.