Maria Vincenza Chiriacò
Dr Maria Vincenza (aka Cinzia) Chiriacò is a researcher at CMCC Foundation (Italy) working on the role of agro-forest ecosystems in the carbon cycle. She is an expert in sustainable management of agro-forestry systems in view of mitigation and adaptation to climate change and works on several national and international projects related to the sustainability of agricultural and forestry policies. She is also an expert of climate policies and tools of environmental sustainability such as the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to agricultural areas and farming enterprises. Expert in GHG inventories of the land sector, she is involved in the compilation of the National GHG Inventory Report of Italy (2018, 2019, 2020). She is one of the authors of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).