Jazmín Mota

MeCCS Mexican Carbon Management Association
Founder and CEO

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Jazmín Mota holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Geological Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a postdoctoral research position at the National Laboratory of Sustainability Sciences (LANCIS) at UNAM.

She is Lead Author of the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage for national GHG inventories, and has developed multiple research lines on carbon accounting. Her academic work focuses on energy and sustainability transitions, particularly carbon accounting, carbon management, and sociotechnoecological systems.

She is the founder and CEO of MeCCS, the Mexican Carbon Management Association. She served as Director of Clean Technologies at Mexico’s Ministry of Energy (SENER), worked as a consultant for the World Bank, and as a project engineer at the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). She’s represented Mexico in multilateral CCS/CCUS forums. She currently works as an independent consultant on carbon management and sustainability, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary, systems-based approaches.