Marta Torres Gunfaus

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Marta Torres Gunfaus is a senior researcher on energy and climate at IDDRI (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales), a Paris-based international think tank working on sustainable development issues and long-term climate strategies to address climate change in the European Union. Her research focuses on long-term transitions, complexity theories and mitigation mechanisms. With more than 15 years of professional experience in climate policy, Marta Torres has worked in the public, private and academic sectors as a project implementer and project manager, and has been part of intergovernmental bodies such as the European Commission, the International Energy Agency and the International Carbon Action Partnership. She was Head of the Mitigation area of the Catalan Office of Climate Change for the Catalan Government, and later served as coordinator and co-director of the international program Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS), fostered by the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she worked on national transitions to decarbonized societies and the formulation of public policies and mitigation commitments in Brazil, Peru, Chile and Colombia, among other emerging countries, in the context of the Paris Agreement.