Gajanana Hegde leads the regulatory development (energy) team to develop standards to measure the outcomes of climate actions within the sustainable development mechanism (SDM) program of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn. He has over two decades of professional experience in climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and waste management. He has contributed to the development of over one hundred methodologies applied in several thousand projects and programs hosted in over one hundred countries under the Clean Development Mechanism.