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Cynthia Cummis
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Audit & Assurance Sustainability & Climate Specialist Leader | Sustainability and ESG Services
Cynthia is an Audit & Assurance Sustainability and Climate Specialist Leader within Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Sustainability and ESG Services, part of the Audit & Assurance business. She provides strategic and technical advice to Deloitte staff and clients on sustainability and climate related topics such as Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accounting and reporting, science-based target setting, Scope 3 GHG emissions reductions strategies, carbon credits and climate-related claims, preparation for national and state climate disclosure legislation, and climate transition planning.
Cynthia has been a pioneer in the corporate GHG management space for more than 25 years, working to define corporate climate leadership and designing and managing various government and NGO programs that incentivize companies to reduce GHG emissions. Most notably, Cynthia worked at the World Resources Institute where she co-founded and co-led the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and was the Deputy Director of the GHG Protocol where she led the development of various corporate GHG accounting and reporting standards and research on emerging GHG management issues. Earlier in her career, Cynthia was the founding director of the U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders Program, which was the first effort in the U.S. to incentivize companies to measure and disclose their corporate GHG emissions and set ambitious emissions reduction targets.
She is currently an Expert Advisory Group member of the SBTi’s Finance Net Zero Standard and a Governance Committee Member of the Advanced and Indirect Mitigation (AIM) Platform.
Cynthia holds a MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration from Cornell University.