Congratulations to Jessica Morey this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week. We met Jessica with the help of a mutual friend, and were greatly impressed by her environmental resume.  Both in her efforts with Climate Lab – a climate change wiki, and her on-going work and educational background Jessica is exactly the type of young person who we believe can lead us to a better environmental future.

The following is further background information on Jessica:

Jessica Morey is the Board Chairwoman and co-founder of Climate Lab, a non-profit dedicated to building web-based tools for knowledge sharing and collaboration that drive action to address climate change. Climate Lab launched a public climate change wiki in 2009.

For her day job, Jessica is the Washington, DC Project Director with the Clean Energy Group (CEG), a nonprofit organization that works with state, federal, and international organizations to promote clean energy technologies.  Ms. Morey works primarily on CEG’s International Climate Change Technology Innovation Initiative as well as assisting CEG’s Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), a multi-state coalition of public clean energy funds working together to support clean energy technologies and markets. Jessica manages the State-Federal Partnership building project and directs CESA’s DOE Marine Energy Acceleration project. In addition, Ms. Morey acts as CEG’s liaison to the Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative (SEFI) of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).  She manages research on public clean energy finance mechanisms for the UNEP-SEFI Public Finance Alliance, an international consortium of publicly backed funding agencies dedicated to building sustainable energy markets.

Before joining CEG, Jessica worked as a clean energy analyst in the World Bank’s central energy unit. Her projects included mainstreaming low carbon analysis into Bank energy projects and improving coordination and knowledge sharing across the Bank’s energy practice and international development partners. She has also consulted with the Natural Resources Defense Council on the Carbon Neutral Costa Rica campaign and worked as the International Fellow at the Pew Center for Global Climate Change.  She received her Bachelors in Environmental Engineering from Dartmouth College, a Masters in International Affairs from American University and a Masters in Sustainable Development from the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. Jessica’s other interests include practicing and teaching yoga and insight meditation- particularly with teenagers.

Congratulations again to Jessica and keep up the great work!

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