Sivan Kartha is a Senior Scientist at SEI US. He is on the Steering Group for SEI’s Gender Equality and Social Equity Programme. 

His research and publications for the past 25 years have dealt with policy strategies for addressing climate change, focusing on equity and effectiveness in the design of an international climate regime. He has also worked on mitigation scenarios, market mechanisms for climate actions, and the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of biomass energy. 

He is co-director of the Climate Equity Reference Project, a research and outreach effort in partnership with civil society organizations on the political and ethical dimensions of equitably sharing the effort of an ambitious global response to climate change.