Michele Grossman is a Waste Specialist and Greenhouse Gas Auditor with Aster Global Environmental Solutions. In her primary role as a greenhouse gas auditor, she focuses on climate services, corporate responsibility, energy efficiency projects, organizational-level verifications, and offset project validation/verification from industrial manufacturing to ecosystems services sectors. She specializes in validating/verifying inventories and carbon offset projects as well as corporate social responsibility auditing. She has specific experience with national and international sustainability disclosure frameworks, waste management and sustainable materials management, circular economy, and sustainable sport and events.

Ms. Grossman also serves as a Waste Specialist, focusing on compliance with environmental regulations, conducting waste audits, designing waste reduction programs, and promoting sustainable waste management practices for organizations, events, communities, and industries. Her specific experience includes:

• Benefit Corporation Reporting
• CDP
• CSA S&P Global
• EcoVadis
• ESG Data Convergence Initiative
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
• Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD)
• UN Sustainable Development Goals (SGD)
• Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard
• The GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance
• Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard
• IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information
• IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosure
• Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)
• CA SB-253 Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act
• CA SB-261 Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk
• Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)
• Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
• Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)

Ms. Grossman draws on her vast experience to complete challenging projects for Aster Global’s diverse clientele. She has extensive specific experience in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy creation, analysis, management, and reporting as well as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting.

Prior to her position with Aster Global Ms. Grossman held several key positions including Director of Sustainability at a Global 500 corporation. Her experience in those previous roles positions her as a subject matter expert related to ESG, CSR, data gathering, analysis, mandatory reporting, corporate benefit reporting and related audits.

Education:

Bachelor of Science – Environmental Science
Concordia University

Bachelor of Arts – Communications
University of Pittsburgh

Years of Experience: 20

Professional Affiliations:

• Council for Responsible Sport
• S. Green Building Council LEED AP
• UNFCCC Sports for Climate Action Working Group

Certifications:

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
  • Purdue University

• Green Building Council
  • LEED AP, U.S.

• California Climate Action Registry (CCAR)
  Lead Verifier
  • General Reporting Protocol
  • Power Utility Protocol

Contact: mgrossman@AsterGlobal.com