Cate Hight
Partner, Sustainability and Carbon Transition, Bain and Company
Cate Hight is Partner at Bain and Company, focused on corporate sustainability and carbon transition. Cate supports clients across industries and geographies in decarbonizing their operations and strategy, moving beyond goal-setting to action and value creation. Prior to Bain, Cate served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Mission Possible Partnership, an alliance of climate leaders focused on the decarbonization of heavy industry and transport.
Cate also has deep expertise in oil and gas methane abatement. While at Rocky Mountain Institute (now RMI), she led the development of MiQ, a first of its kind product standard for natural gas differentiated according to its methane emissions footprint. Prior to RMI, she spent ten years at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she managed the oil and gas program of the Global Methane Initiative, a public-private partnership of 45 countries and private-sector actors dedicated to methane abatement, recovery, and use. At EPA, Cate also played lead roles in the development of key greenhouse gas regulations and co-authored the annual US Inventory of GHG Emissions and Sinks.
An expert in the development of carbon markets, Cate worked for the Mission Climat of the Caisse des Depots in Paris (now I4CE), where she co-authored Pricing Carbon, a book assessing the performance of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. She has also held positions at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and as committee staff in the US House of Representatives.