Dr Saphira Rekker

Saphira Rekker

Position:

Senior Lecturer

Department:

School of Business

Role:

Researcher,Research Committee

Themes:

Supporting Queensland’s sector plans towards decarbonisation

Areas of research & interest:

  • Behaviour change
  • Climate change
  • Emissions reduction

Topics:

  • Emissions reduction & sequestration
  • Economics

Research Institution:

The University of Queensland

Profile:

https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/21972

Location:

Queensland

BIO

Saphira is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainable Finance at The University of Queensland, Australia, and has a PhD in Finance. She is a world-leading scholar in the field of corporate Paris Compliance measurement and is a leading academic involved in developing science-based emission reduction methodologies. Saphira's research focuses on tools to measure and verify the efficacy of decarbonisation commitments by corporations and financial institutions, a cross-disciplinary research area of increasing global relevance. Saphira is a member of the Technical Working Group of the Science Based Targets initiative for the oil and gas sector, where she continues to advise and develop appropriate methodologies for science-based targets, as well as the Scientific Advisory Group. She has also been a key contributor to the EU climate benchmarking regulation, which her contribution to quantifying the benchmark is still intact after several revisions and is one of the key outcomes of the new regulation.