Professional biography
About Blutus Mbambi
Blutus Mbambi founded CCAL, Zambia’s first specialist carbon market advisory firm. He’s a UNFCCC-certified Article 6 expert reviewer with 5+ years in climate finance and carbon markets, having raised $500,000+ in funding, trained 17,000+ people across Southern Africa, and represented Zambia at COP26–COP30.
Practice focus
Selected professional experience
- Blutus Mbambi is Founder and Director of CarbonSphere Climate Advisory Limited (CCAL) in Lusaka, Zambia. He has served as National Transparency and Climate Reporting Specialist for Zambia under Baastel's regional COMESA transparency programme, and as a Climate Finance Expert on Green Climate Fund capacity building for Impact Consulting under an FAO contract in Yemen (. From June 2025 to April 2026, he was a Global Climate Mobility Fellow with the UN Global Centre for Climate Mobility, and in 2025 he worked as a Junior Analyst on land and carbon finance at the UNCCD Global Mechanism in Bonn, Germany.
- Earlier in his career, Blutus was an Article 6 Carbon Markets Fellow (SPAR6C Research Fellow) with GGGI and UNEP, hosted by Zambia's Ministry of Green Economy and Environment (2024), and a UNFCCC Capacity Building Trainer with The Carter Center, delivering training across Africa that same year. In 2023, he worked as a Climate & Sustainability Analyst at Snow System Ltd in Lusaka. Between 2019 and 2024, he co-founded and served as Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Change Action & Advocacy (CCCAA), also based in Lusaka
Academic qualifications
- MSc, International Ecology (Conservation of Species and Populations) — Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France (expected September 2026)
- BSc, Environmental Management Systems — Information and Communication University (ICU), Zambia
Professional certifications and memberships
- UNFCCC Article 6 Technical Expert Reviewer — Certified BTR Reviewer (2024)
- High-Integrity Carbon Markets under Article 6 — UNFCCC & Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and Environment
- Article 6 Carbon Markets Fellow — SPAR6C / GGGI / UNEP (2024)
- UN Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM) Fellow (2025)
- Advanced REDD+ & Article 6.2 Implementation — IGES (2022)
- Climate Governance & Negotiations — AGNES Africa (2023)
- Trainer of Trainers (ToT) & Facilitation — ActionAid International
- UNFCCC COP Negotiator: COP26–COP30, plus multiple Bonn Intersessional Sessions