Laura brings over two decades of renewable energy and climatetech experience to her Government Affairs role at Blue Planet. Her experience ranges from management roles (SolarCity), demand response (Comverge), building technology (Siemens) and electric vehicle infrastructure industries. Prior to Blue Planet, Laura was Western Region Utilities Director for Greenlots. Additionally, Laura leads the Southern California chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs, a national bipartisan group of business leaders who promote polices that are good for the economy and good for the planet. She has also focused on advancing sustainability within her community as a cofounder of the Sustainable Business Council LA (SBCLA) in 2008. Laura was appointed to the Santa Monica Sustainable City Task Force in 2003 to support the city’s Sustainable City Plan. She also acts as a mentor for Women In Green. Laura has a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MBA in finance from The Wharton School, and is a LEED AP.

Chiara Trabucchi

Principal

Chiara Trabucchi’s (she/her) areas of expertise are corporate finance and economics. As a Principal with Industrial Economics, Incorporated, Chiara is a nationally recognized expert in financial assurance and the design of financial settlement frameworks tailored for the protection of the public trust.

An expert in evaluating the financial integrity of business, non-profit, and governmental organizations, Chiara has 30 years of consulting experience in assessing financial damages arising from mass torts and class action matters, lost profits, disgorgement, property diminution, economic benefit of noncompliance, fraudulent conveyance, and natural resource injuries. As a consultant to public- and private-sector clients, including litigators and in-house counsel, she regularly applies her expertise in the context of rigorous verification and auditing standards. Her recent work involves the monetization of financial consequences associated with Carbon Capture and Underground Storage (CCUS).

Chiara has been qualified as an expert in financial management design and implementation of trusts to fund organizations in perpetuity by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She has testified in numerous forums on issues related to financial settlements for large-scale environmental damages. Chiara served as an invited expert on design considerations for financial risk management before the U.S. Federal Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage, as well as an invited expert before the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. She has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, as well as before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. She serves on several multi-stakeholder panels addressing the implications of financial assurance requirements on new and emerging technologies for climate change. She has authored articles in peer-reviewed journals on issues related to financial assurance, environmental disclosure requirements, environmental risk management, and the valuation of financial consequences arising from natural disasters and catastrophic events.

Daniel is a principal in the Strategic Analysis and Engagement group, focused on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) roadmapping.

Daniel joined RMI when it acquired The Climate Map (TCM), a startup nonprofit focused on CDR roadmapping. Daniel led and built TCM, with many others, between 2020 and 2022.

Background

Daniel is a social scientist and MBA by training, with a fifteen-year track record of contributions at the frontier of climate change mitigation. Prior to TCM, Daniel advised businesses, government agencies, foundations, and nonprofits focused on achieving climate and conservation impact. His clients were primarily in North America and Europe, and included leaders and pioneers in clean energy generation and retail, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, climate finance, carbon markets, and CDR.

Daniel was previously a case team leader at The Bridgespan Group, where he advised clients in the US, UK, India, Indonesia, and South Africa, a marketing manager at Astrum Solar, and a senior analyst at the Analysis Group. In 2014 he was the inaugural fellow for the Prime Coalition and in 2006 he cofounded the Drylands Natural Resources Center, an agroforestry nonprofit in Kenya that continues to thrive today.