Dr. Carolina Montano Owen is the Technical Lead for Sustainable Buildings at World Green Building Council (WorldGBC).
Carolina promotes strategies to accelerate the transition to a circular and decarbonised built environment, by leading initiatives such as the Circular Buildings Coalition and the WorldGBC Circularity Accelerator global programme. Carolina has supported the development of the technical screening criteria for the EU’s Green Taxonomy as a member of the WorldGBC team for the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, as well as the decarbonisation roadmaps part of the #BuildingLife project.
Carolina has a background in Civil Engineering and a Doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. During her studies she received awards from institutions such as the Energy Institute of the United Kingdom, CIBSE and ASHRAE, and was a representative at the Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore in 2018.
Carolina loves scuba diving and enjoys travelling and hiking. She is fluent in English, German, and Spanish, and has an intermediate level of Portuguese and Italian. She is based in North Carolina, USA.
About the World Green Building Council
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is the largest and most influential local-regional-global action network, leading the transformation to sustainable and decarbonised built environments for everyone, everywhere.
Together, with 75+ Green Building Councils and industry partners from all around the world, we are driving systemic changes to:
Address whole life carbon emissions of existing and new buildings
Enable resilient, healthy, equitable and inclusive places
Secure regenerative, resource efficient and waste-free infrastructure
We work with businesses, organisations and governments to deliver on the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs).