As Vice President of Research and Development at SCS Global Services, Tobias Schultz leads a team of scientists and innovators in developing science-based sustainability standards and services to support global climate mitigation and ESG corporate best practices. As the lead researcher on SCS’s groundbreaking Certified Sustainable Diamonds standard (SCS 007), Mr. Schultz developed a standardized process to trace the provenance of diamonds to their place of origin and an approach to climate accounting which enables corporations to mitigate short-lived climate pollutants. As a Technical Consultant to major global corporations during his tenure at SCS, Mr. Schultz has been instrumental in driving sustainability standards development and adoption. During his time at SCS, he has also represented the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Science Advisory Panel in its participation in the International Standards Organization’s Working Group 13 on Radiative Forcing Management.