Research & Writing
Projects

 Scope 3 emissions assurance
QVC Group
Environmental data & California Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program Disclosure SB 253
2025
South Africa, UK

Limited assurance of QVC’s Scope 3 emissions, extending a third-party assurance that had previously covered only Scope 1 and 2. The scope included four categories: purchased goods and services, capital goods, upstream transportation and distribution, and use of sold products, across the German, Italian, UK and US markets, including HSN, under an operational control boundary. The work reviewed data completeness, assessed each category’s methodology and verified calculations against source data. Findings led to revisions in the reported data table and recommendations to strengthen methods for future cycles..

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Lecturer, Course design, workshopslfca.earth
Education for just transition & system change
2025-2026
Berlin


Designed and taught courses and workshops for sustainability practitioners, moving from emissions accounting to business redesign. Topics covered GHG accounting and transition planning; stakeholder and supplier engagement; business model redesign within planetary and social boundaries, drawing on Doughnut Economics; and collective action through sector alliances. Contributed to the organisation’s strategy and theory of change.

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 CSRD Software development advisory
Hitachi
Subject-matter expertise
2025-2026

Advised on translating CSRD, ESRS and GHG Protocol requirements into specifications for RitaONE, an ESG reporting platform, working with product and engineering teams to align the tool with regulatory and assurance standards.


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 Whole-life emissions of HS2
HS2, Arup, Bureau Veritas
Environmental and land use assessment
2022

Third-party verification of the greenhouse gas model for HS2 Phase 2b, which set the scheme’s baseline carbon inventory. The model covered whole-life emissions across a 120-year design life: construction materials and processes, maintenance and replacement, rolling stock operation, land use change, and modal shift from road and air. The verification was conducted alongside the BV team and reviewed data sources, assumptions, calculation methods and validation steps. Route in the image as planned

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Educational workshops on climate finance and stakeholder engagements
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
Stakeholder engagement and advocacy
UK
2023-24

Supported the coalition of banks, asset managers, asset owners and insurers, in engaging regulators and standard setters on transition planning and transition finance. Conducted extensive stakeholder engagement to build shared, sector-wide rules that hold financial institutions accountable to climate goals, so that capital follows collective objectives rather than short-term returns alone. Supported creating workshop series and learning formats.

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Bringing climate disclosure into global policy
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures 
Regulatory implementation monitoring
UK
2023

Supported the Task Force’s Secretariat for over a year, taking part in its regular coordination calls and monitoring regulatory developments across the globe as its recommendations moved into national rules and international standards. The work followed the Task Force until it completed its mandate in 2023.

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About
irenecolaboni@gmail.com
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Irene Colaboni is an Italian researcher and educator working towards a people- and planet-first economy. After almost a decade in sustainability audit and advisory in Milan and London, she now tests new economic frameworks in real-world contexts, through education, strategy and advocacy.
Building on this work, she is currently exploring the role of intermediate organisations in post-growth transitions in Italy.

She lives and works between Rome and Berlin.

Every organisation is a place where the economy can be redesigned.



Education
Bocconi University (Milan)
Master Degree in Sustainability 
2018

LUISS University (Rome)
BA Degree in Economics
2016

Research & Degrowth
Energy & Degrowth 
2026


Languages
ENG - ITA - ESP




Employment Lecturer & course designer 
LFCA.NGO
2025 - 2026
Berlin

Associate Director Sustainability Policy & Advocacy
FGS Global
2022-2024
Berlin

Associate Director Impact
FGS Global
2021-2022
London

Sustainability Third-Party Auditor
Bureau Veritas
2021-2021
London

Climate Change & Sustainability Consultant
EY
2017-2020
Milan

Green Patenting Research
MISE
2017
Rome






  • Affiliations
  • member of Rethinking Economics





subject-matter expert for Oxford Offestting Principles Practitioners Forum at the Oxford University





reviewer on Degrowth Journal









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1. Water supply in Qatar
MUI — No. 3
AGICI, Milan
Independent economic research journal, est. 1985
2018


Qatar has very limited groundwater and relies mainly on desalination. It is among the highest per-capita water users in the world, and a large share of supply is lost in the network. The paper examines a supply strategy built to keep pace with rapid growth, the environmental costs it has produced, and the measures needed for a more responsible approach to rising demand.

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2. Collective action in supply chains for systemic change
lfca.earth
LFCA, Berlin
Community and Academy for sustainability practitioners
2025

Firms hold significant levers over supply chain emissions, and with them a responsibility not to pass the cost of transition down the chain. Drawing on a practitioner learning session, the article argues that action need not wait for complete data. It shows how buyers can combine climate requirements with practical support for suppliers, such as training, fairer payment terms and co-investment, so that decarbonisation becomes a shared project across the chain, and moves faster for it.

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3. Green patenting activities in Europe
Economics
LUISS University, Rome
2017

The thesis examined patent leadership in environmental innovation, through research on the expansion of climate mitigation technologies in Europe and corporate case studies. It reflects an innovation-led framing of the ecological transition, which trough later work I have revisited in favour of approaches centred on economic structures, collective organisation and sufficiency.






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