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Our team
Our team are the go-to experts for governments, businesses and individuals to understand what they can do to mitigate their effect on the environment, meet their Paris Agreement obligations and contribute positively to reduce climate change overall.
Who we are
The Environmental Accounting Services team are passionate about our work. We love our clients and what we do for them.
We live by our values and every day we seek to make a difference. We know how challenging it is to embark on a climate change mitigation journey, and our team is here with guidance and trustworthy advice, backed by years of experience and education to make the journey easier.
If you seek to make a real difference for our planet, let’s work together towards meaningful change.
Dr Carly Green
Principal Consultant
Carly leads our technical team to deliver quality client experiences. Carly is an IPCC lead author and the founding director of Environmental Accounting Services. She brings over 20-years experience in global climate change mitigation to the role. Working with the team to provide quality advice, build capacity and see projects through to completion is what gets her out of bed in the morning.
Michael Green
Principal Consultant and Business Manager
Michael is a founding director of Environmental Accounting Services and heads up our software division. Focused on managing data and providing tools that make greenhouse gas accounting and reporting integrated into business systems, Michael has worked across a range of business and government levels.
Dr Felicity Thomas
Senior Consultant
Felicity is a problem solver and thrives on researching technical solutions. She has a diverse engineering background and highly refined skills in communicating technical information. She works closely with clients to help them understand current regulation and/or policy and then measure, monitor and report their impact in a meaningful way.
Felicity is passionate about applying her diverse range of skills to affect positive and sustainable change, this sees her highly engaed in the educational work we do.
Noemi Holzleg
Senior Consultant
Noemi has a masters in chemical engineering and a passion for sustainability. She enjoys helping make tangible changes both locally and globally for a thriving community and healthy planet. The importance of agricultural management was highlighted to her during an internship in Kenya developing water management strategies in rural, drought-affected areas of the country. Now based in New Zealand, she is also focusing on understanding the ongoing changes with the ETS and what this means for landowners across NZ, as well as supporting educational work.
Melissa Watkins
Operations Manager
Melissa ensures EAS’s operations run smoothly and effectively. With a broad skillset and a practical, hands-on approach, she supports the day-to-day functions that keep the team focused, aligned, and able to deliver meaningful results.
Her experience spans government, corporate, not-for-profit, and consulting sectors, covering operations, marketing, and communications. Combined with a personal commitment to environmental sustainability, this background allows her to bring structure, clarity, and purpose to EAS’s internal operations.
Being part of a purpose-led organisation and supporting work that drives meaningful environmental impact is what motivates her. By helping the business run efficiently, she enables the team to focus on what they do best—helping clients create real, lasting, meaningful change. Seeing the positive impact this has for our clients, and the broader global impact, makes the work all the more rewarding.
Nicole McRae
Project Manager
Nicole has a diverse background in sustainability and project management, with a strong track record of leading global sustainability and supply chain projects. She has experience in program management, overseeing all sustainability projects within Technical R&D at Novartis. She was responsible for integrating sustainability assessments into pharmaceutical product and process design, ensuring early identification of sustainability risks. With additional consulting experience across both government and private sectors in New Zealand, Nicole brings both strategic and practical expertise to climate and sustainability focused project delivery.
Lauren Curry
Consultant
Lauren has a Masters in Business and Post Graduate Cert in Zero Carbon Engineering. Growing up on a family farm gave her a passion for agri-food, environment and sustainability. She began her career in supply chain management and continuous improvement within the agri-food supply chain, before transitioning into environmental consultancy. She specialises in consultation in greenhouse gas assessments, emission mitigation and reduction, and helping agri-food businesses understand and reduce their environmental impact. Lauren was involved in the ‘carbon footprinting’, training and policy development of the agri-food sector in Northern Ireland, before relocating to New Zealand. Within EAS, Lauren continues to use her expertise to assist clients, and is involved in the development of greenhouse gas assessment guidance for DCCEEW in Australia, and development of insetting projects for agri-food supply chains.
Marlee O'Keefe
Administrator
Marlee comes from a diverse background across both the public and private sector. She started her career in government undertaking a variety of roles including business development in Ukraine with the US Peace Corps and several roles within the United States Forest Service. As a civil servant Marlee specialised in project support and capacity development. Upon moving to New Zealand, Marlee began working in conservation for the Wilding Pines efforts. Marlee leverages her previous professional experiences and zealous enthusiasm for the outdoors to support the day to day operations of EAS.
