Clayton Munnings

Clayton is a widely published climate economist with over four dozen scholarly articles and policy papers on carbon pricing. Clayton has also led research and advised on the design of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade programs, and other carbon pricing policies on six continents. Clayton has held multiple expert and advisory roles including as Board Member at Earthshot, member of Colorado’s GEMM Trading Technical Working Group, and Expert to the International Initiative for Development of Article 6 Methodology Tools. Clayton holds an A.S. from Monroe Community College, B.S. from Cornell University (with Distinction), M.S. from UC Berkeley, and is completing his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. He is a first-generation college student and a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholar through their low-income high-ability “Pathways to Success” program. Clayton is based in Berkeley, CA.