Sarah M. Forbes has led the World Resources Institute's (WRI) work on carbon doxide capture and storage since May 2008, including the stakeholder process that resulted in the publication of the Guidelines for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport and Storage, a robust set of technical guidelines for how to responsibly proceed with safe CCS projects.
WRI is a non-profit environmental think tank that works at the intersection of human and environment needs. WRI's CCS research is aimed at developing tools and analyses that inform CCS regulatory developments, with a focus on environmental integrity.
Prior to joining WRI, Sarah worked at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), serving in a number of capacities. Notably she led the roadmap development for the Department of Energy's carbon sequestration research program, chaired the outreach working group for the regional sequestration partnerships and conducted analyses on environmental aspects of CCS, the energy-water nexus, and climate change.
For the past 10 years Sarah has applied her ecological perspective to the regulatory, political and engineering challenges associated with demonstrating and deploying CCS technology. She authored an early paper on regulatory barriers to CCS technology deployment in 2001 and has contributed to high-level reports, including the CCS Roadmap published by the International Energy Agency in 2009 and the US-China CCS roadmap published by the Center for American Progress.
A frequent keynote speaker, Sarah has bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from Wheaton College in Illinois and Mississippi State University.
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