Francisco is an internationally recognised expert in environmental accounting, finance and risk management. He has a PhD in carbon accounting from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford.
He worked for ten years in international energy and carbon markets before moving into academia in 2009. At the University of Edinburgh Business School between 2009 and 2014 he co-founded and directed the Centre for Business and Climate Change and developed the world’s first MSc in Carbon Finance. In 2015 his work on carbon accounting was identified by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as one of 50 landmark research contributions over the last 50 years.
In recent years he has pioneered the development of standardised approaches and open data infrastructure to support natural capital accounting, reporting and risk assessment. In addition to his academic roles he also works as an independent consultant, with experience spanning over 100 projects in more than 20 countries.
Indicators for measuring and reporting corporate nature-related impacts, dependencies, and risks
From impacts to dependencies: A first global assessment of corporate biodiversity risk exposure and responses
Carbon accounting for negative emissions technologies
Design Options of ETS: How to Incentivize CCUS
Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising?
Is operationalising natural capital risk assessment practicable?
Materiality Assessment of Natural Capital Risks in Australian Forestry
Opportunities and challenges for decarbonizing steel production by creating markets for ‘green steel’ products
Comparing sustainability claims with assurance in organic agriculture standards
The rise and rise of natural capital: what role for forestry?
Assessing the economics of CO2 capture in China's iron/steel sector: A case study
Implementing natural capital credit risk assessment in agricultural lending
Assessing the Economics of CO2 Capture in Chinas Steel Plant
Creative accounting: A critical perspective on the market-based method for reporting purchased electricity (scope 2) emissions
Developing an evidence base for assessing natural capital risks and dependencies in lending to Australian wheat farms
On the variability of CO2 feed flows into CCS transportation and storage networks
Salmon, sensors, and translation: The agency of Big Data in environmental governance
Operating Flexibility of CO2 Injection Wells in Future Low Carbon Energy System
Sensing reality? New monitoring technologies for global sustainability standards
The attributional-consequential distinction and its applicability to corporate carbon accounting
A review of carbon accounting in the social and environmental accounting literature: What can it contribute to the debate?
Finding a path for REDD+ between ODA and the CDM
Carbon accounting and the construction of competence
As frames collide: Making sense of carbon accounting
Lessons from carbon markets for designing an effective REDD architecture