Cynthia Cummis

Cynthia is an Audit & Assurance Sustainability and Climate specialist leader within Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Sustainability Services, part of the Audit & Assurance business. She provides strategic and technical advice on sustainability and climate-related topics such as greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting, science-based target setting, scope 3 GHG emissions reductions strategies, carbon credits and climate-related claims, preparation for national and state climate disclosure legislation, and climate transition planning.

For more than 25 years, Cynthia has been working to define corporate climate leadership and designing and managing various government and NGO programs that incentivize companies to reduce GHG emissions. Cynthia worked at the World Resources Institute where she co-founded and co-led the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and was the deputy director of the GHG Protocol. Earlier in her career, Cynthia was the founding director of the US EPA’s Climate Leaders Program, which was the first effort in the US to incentivize companies to measure and disclose their corporate GHG emissions and set ambitious emissions reduction targets.

She previously served, in her personal capacity, as an Expert Advisory Group member of the SBTi’s Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard and a Governance Committee member of the Advanced and Indirect Mitigation (AIM) Platform. Cynthia currently serves on the GHG Protocol Technical Working Group for the Actions and Market Instruments Standard development process.

Cynthia holds a master of public administration from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor of science in hotel administration from Cornell University.