Nina Masson

charly provides the most cost-effective way to use carbon-negative materials in products and packaging from biochar for the circular economy. We offer support for business leaders in three areas: material, product, footprint.

HEAT is an independent consulting firm for energy conservation & climate protection worldwide. It supports ministries, environmental agencies, development banks, EU and UN bodies in advancing new policy frameworks, technology transfer, capacity building, emissions modeling, and training. For HEAT, I am active as expert on climate-friendly heating & cooling, sustainability strategies for organic food retail stores, on developing national energy efficiency strategies and roadmaps, and on e-waste.

re-generate supports you to evaluate and optimise the potential of Clean Cooling, Clean Materials, Clean Production & Clean Logistics for your business. WHY IT MATTERS? In its 2020 review, Project Drawdown lists the 100 most important climate solutions. Together, sustainable Refrigerant use, efficient Heat Pumps, effective Recycling, a switch to Bioplastics, the reuse of Waste, and the active carbon removal via Biochar can reduce 116 CO2eq gigatons until 2050, or 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Contract work as independent expert for EU and United Nations bodies, development agencies & research institutes in the fields of international climate policy, ozone-depleting substances, energy efficiency, heating, refrigeration, air-conditioning, renewable energies, resource efficiency, standardisation, technology transfer, stakeholder engagement, communications. Work as lead author on UN studies and scientific assessments.

Cyclic Design provides strategic design services and consulting on sustainability for product design, with a special focus on packaging. Taking environmental issues as a starting point, we consider a product’s entire lifecycle to optimize efficiency and reduce waste. Our own product Nepenthes is a reusable, cap-less bottle for personal care products, as an alternative to disposable plastic packaging. The product is made from bio-based plastics and recyclable.

General business strategy advice. Previously, global lead for projects on natural-refrigerants technology: LIFE FRONT (2017-2020): draft of project application, support for project management team // SuperSmart (2016-2019): draft of project application; member of the General Assembly; work package lead on dissemination; lead author on a technical study on water management for the definition of criteria for an EU Ecolabel for Food Retail Stores (www.supersmart-supermarket.eu)

Strategic and operational market development for European HQ, American branch, Asian branch

Strategic & operational management European HQ; liaison with US-American & Asian branch. Head of Market Development department, incl. UN / US / EU projects, market development and special projects, market research & consultancy, public affairs. Lead author of market and policy reports, referenced by the European Commission, UN and leading industry sources. Chief Editor for Accelerate Europe magazine, contributing writer for other Accelerate magazines (http://accelerate.shecco.com/).

Head of two business areas: market research & consultancy; special international projects. Lead of “shecco publications”: lead author, project management for publications on low-GWP HVAC&R technology (http://publications.shecco.com/ ). Lead of “ATMOsphere” global conference series - financial management, conceptual work, strategic and operational management; 2009-2010 (http://www.atmo.org/). Editor for 6 industry platforms for environmental technologies, incl.: www.r744.com, www.hydrocarbons21.com.

Content generation for & maintenance of online industry and campaigning platforms; E-journalism: news articles & feature stories; advertising, policy & technology section; Political monitoring (worldwide): environment, technology, energy, transport, industry; Public affairs: building of political landscapes; briefing for the automotive industry; Customer relations: written & oral communication, first point of contact

Ecological Science & Management; Environmental Auditing; Climate Change & International Development; Environmental Impact Assessment; Environmental Law; Environmental Economics & Politics; Corporate Social Responsibility; Research Methods / Statistics