Mr. Mugarura Michael is an Environmental Scientist and Climate Change professional with 9+ years of experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation, Climate modelling, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions analysis and Inventory. He has been actively involved in the rolling out of Uganda’s REDD+ programme, development of Uganda’s Green Growth Strategy and the National Climate Change Policy.

Before joining AfrII as the GHG Expert on the project, Michael worked with the Ministry of Water and Environment, Climate Change Department as a Senior Climate Change Officer – Mitigation in charge of Uganda’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory management System, and was the National Climate Change Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) focal person. He oversaw the development, review and updates of carbon standard Baselines (SBL) for the country.

Michael has worked with World Vision Uganda and collaborated closely with other regional and International bodies like Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a consultant and member of the IPCC Scoping Working Group.