Biography:Mostafa Sherbiny

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Mostafa Sherbiny
مصطفى الشربيني
Portrait of Mostafa Sherbiny
Sherbiny in 2024
Born
Mostafa Elsayed Sherbiny Elsayed

(1966-11-02) November 2, 1966 (age 59)
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
Alma materCairo University (BCom, 1989)
Sadat Academy for Management Sciences
OccupationSustainability consultant, ESG and carbon footprint expert
Years active1989–present
OrganizationInstitute of Sustainability and Carbon Footprint
Known forCarbon footprint accounting and ESG assurance in the Arab region; Encyclopedia of Carbon Neutrality
Notable work
Encyclopedia of Carbon Neutrality (2022–2025)
TitlePresident and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Sustainability and Carbon Footprint
Board member ofVolunteer Team Foundation for Humanitarian Action
AwardsPrince Mohammed bin Fahd Medal for Best Voluntary Work in Sustainable Development (2021)
Excellence in Climate Adaptation Award (2022)
ALECSO Honour Shield (2023)
Websiteghgauditor.com

Mostafa Elsayed Sherbiny Elsayed (Arabic: مصطفى الشربيني; born 2 November 1966), known professionally as Mostafa Sherbiny, is an Egyptian sustainability consultant and ESG expert. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Sustainability and Carbon Footprint (ISCF), an assurance and carbon verification body operating across sixteen countries.

Sherbiny chairs the Scientific Chair for Carbon Footprint and Sustainability at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), holds the rank of Official Observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and has served as a European Climate Pact Ambassador for Egypt since 2022.[1] He is the founder of the Climate Ambassadors Initiative, a partnership registered with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals platform.[2]

He is the author of the eight volume Encyclopedia of Carbon Neutrality (موسوعة الحياد الكربوني), published between 2022 and 2025, described as the first comprehensive Arabic language reference series on carbon accounting and carbon neutrality.

Early life and education

Sherbiny was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 2 November 1966.[3] He graduated from Cairo University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting, and later undertook management studies at the Sadat Academy for Management Sciences.

His early career was in accounting and auditing rather than environmental science, a background that later shaped his approach to carbon measurement as a form of financial-style verification.[4]

Career

Professional credentials

Sherbiny is a Certified Public Accountant accredited by Egypt's Ministry of Finance. He holds the FSA Credential issued by the IFRS Foundation, which covers the standards of the International Sustainability Standards Board, and is certified as a lead auditor by the International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) of the Chartered Quality Institute. He is also an accredited international trainer under CPD-UK.

Institute of Sustainability and Carbon Footprint

Sherbiny serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Sustainability and Carbon Footprint, which operates alongside the International Expertise House for Environmental and Social Sustainability. The organisation provides ESG reporting assurance, carbon footprint verification and professional certification, with teams in Egypt, the United States and the United Kingdom, and a stated reach across sixteen countries in the Arab region, Africa and Europe.

Under his leadership the institute was accredited as a Validation and Verification Body, giving it standing to conduct independent carbon verification engagements.

Areas of practice

Sherbiny's technical work covers greenhouse gas quantification and reporting under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and ISO 14064; product level carbon footprint measurement under ISO 14067 and life-cycle assessment; compliance with the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM); sustainability disclosure under IFRS S1 and S2 and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and its ESRS standards; carbon market mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement; water footprint accounting; and climate risk assessment.

ALECSO Scientific Chair

He chairs the ALECSO Scientific Chair for Carbon Footprint and Sustainability, the Arab League body concerned with carbon measurement standards and sustainability capacity building across the Arab States.

Climate Ambassadors Initiative

Sherbiny founded and leads the Climate Ambassadors Initiative, registered as a partnership on the United Nations SDG platform.[2] The initiative reports having trained more than 3,100 climate professionals and delivered over 2,000 awareness events and capacity building seminars, and has established a Climate Ambassadors Summer School.

He has founded three further UN registered SDG partnerships: the Carbon Neutral Pioneers Initiative, which works with organisations pursuing verified carbon neutrality; the Auditors and Experts Initiative for Sustainability and Climate Risk Assessment; and the Water Footprint Pioneers Initiative.

International climate policy

As a UNFCCC Official Observer, Sherbiny attends the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COP) and the intersessional meetings of the subsidiary bodies in Bonn. He has participated in United Nations working groups on climate adaptation, climate finance, health and climate, and the new collective quantified goal for post-2025 climate finance.[5]

He has published expert commentary on the negotiations, including an analysis of the expected outcomes of the 2025 Bonn Climate Change Conference.[6][7] His carbon neutrality work was covered in Egyptian press during COP29.[8]

Publications

Encyclopedia of Carbon Neutrality

Sherbiny is the author and principal architect of the Encyclopedia of Carbon Neutrality, published in eight volumes between 2022 and 2025 and running to more than 3,000 pages. It is described as the first comprehensive Arabic language reference series on the subject and is used by governments, corporations and training institutions in the Arab region. The volumes are:

  1. Carbon Footprint Guide for Businesses — GHG Protocol, ISO 14064, and Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
  2. Carbon Market Guide — compliance and voluntary markets, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
  3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement Guide — quantification methodologies and emission factors
  4. CBAM Guide — the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism for exporters
  5. Verification and Reporting Guide for Auditors — ISO 14064-3, ISO 14065 and assurance engagements
  6. Product Carbon Footprint Guide — ISO 14067, life cycle assessment and environmental product declarations
  7. Blue Carbon Guide — mangroves, seagrass, coastal wetlands and carbon sequestration
  8. Carbon Offsetting and Certification Guide — PAS 2060 and carbon neutrality claims

Other works

He is also the author of Audit Ready: A Practical Guide to Carbon Footprint Verification, CBAM and Sustainability Assurance, published in English, and has written peer reviewed articles and policy briefs on climate adaptation, climate finance and carbon markets.

Media

Sherbiny is a frequent commentator on climate policy in Arabic and English language media, with appearances on Nile News, the Egyptian Official Satellite Channel, Sputnik News Arabic, Cairo Satellite Channel and the Middle East News Agency. He was profiled in the Youm7 series on Egyptians working in climate.[9]

Awards and recognition

  • Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Medal for Best Voluntary Work in Sustainable Development (2021), presented by the Arab League, the Arab Union for Volunteering, UNFPA and United Nations Volunteers
  • Excellence in Climate Adaptation Award (2022), Arab Center for Adaptation to Climate Impacts
  • ALECSO Honour Shield (2023), awarded on World Environment Day in Tunis
  • Recognition from the Council of African Ambassadors accredited in Cairo (2023)
  • Honour shields from the presidents of ten Egyptian universities, for climate training programmes delivered on campus

Other roles

Sherbiny serves on the board of the Volunteer Team Foundation for Humanitarian Action.

References

  1. ↑ "Mostafa Sherbiny". https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/climate-ambassadors/ambassador/mostafa-sherbiny. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Climate Ambassadors". https://sdgs.un.org/partnership-progress/climate-ambassadors. 
  3. ↑ "Dr. Mostafa Elsayed Sherbiny Elsayed". https://wikitia.com/wiki/Dr._Mostafa_Elsayed_Sherbiny_Elsayed. 
  4. ↑ "The Accountant Who Decided to Audit the Planet". https://vocal.media/earth/the-accountant-who-decided-to-audit-the-planet-inside-the-climate-work-of-ambassador-dr-mostafa-sherbiny. 
  5. ↑ "UN engagement on climate adaptation and finance" (in ar). Al-Bawaba News. August 2024. https://www.albawabhnews.com/5057662. 
  6. ↑ "Mostafa Sherbiny: What to expect from the 2025 Bonn Climate Change Conference". Watani International. June 2025. https://en.wataninet.com/features/environment/mostafa-sherbiny-what-to-expect-from-2025-bonn-climate-change-conference/46417/. 
  7. ↑ "Bonn SB62 outlook" (in ar). Garb News. June 2025. https://garbnews.net/news/s/246395. 
  8. ↑ "Carbon neutrality initiative" (in ar). Al-Masry Al-Youm. https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/3302164. 
  9. ↑ "Egyptians for Climate" (in ar). Youm7. 6 December 2024. https://www.youm7.com/story/2024/12/6/6801811. 




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