Born in Udine, Italy, on 20 April 1973, Michele Stua is an independent researcher and analyst focusing on Climate Policy. In the past he has worked for Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies in Pisa, where he obtained his PhD in 2011, developing an innovative research on the application of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in China, and SPRU-Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. His major efforts concerned the study of carbon mechanisms aimed at facilitating the trade of mitigation-related assets worldwide. His findings led to the definition of policy proposals introduced in different international contexts. He directly collaborated with Brazilian authorities to the design of the proposals contained in the Brazil submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of November 2014, which eventually led to the inclusion of the Article 6 in the new International Agreement on Climate Change signed in Paris on December 2015.