Climate change, energy and ecological footprint

Adviser to the Jersey Parliamentary Scrutiny of the draft energy policy (2011)

Guidance on SEA and climate change, with Environment Agency and others (2007)

Climate change strategy for Buckinghamshire, 2007. Client: Buckinghamshire strategic Partnership. With Best Foot Forward. Final report sets out likely climate trends and their implications for the county and recommendations for actions to achieve reductions, with examples, and particular emphasis on systemic change needed.

Carbon neutral Welsh communities, 2007 Client: Welsh Local Government Association. Discussion paper clarifies meaning of 'carbon neutrality' and how it could be achieved, and makes recommendations for achieving it in Welsh communities

Leading the Way: how local authorities can meet the challenge of climate change, 2005 Client: Local Government Association and Energy Saving Trust, Published report sets out a long term vision of how local government can play an essential role in reducing and adapting to climate change, including an 'Anytown 2025' vision showing how daily life could be different and what technologies - and, even more significant, what policies, interventions and institutional changes have made them possible.

Carbon emissions from the South West, and implications for the Regional Spatial Strategy, 2006 Client: South West Regional Assembly Report is an analysis as an adjunct to the sustainability appraisal of the draft RSS which showed that its ambitious policies could achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions - but only if they were applied with vigour and determination, with support from other policies and interventions, and without expansions in road and air travel which would otherwise swamp the savings. Following this, the Regional Assembly further strengthened its draft policies and they were supported by the Panel (with some adjustments benefitting from subsequent studies) but then removed by the Secretary of State.

Oral evidence on proposals for carbon assessment of the Scottish budget to the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee of the Scottish Parliament, 2008 Official Report (transcript) argues that the proposed assessment tool needs to consider indirect and feedback effects, assess the carbon effects of the budget in the context of other policies and interventions, and for mechanisms to ensure that assessment influences decisions.

Prime Candidate for market modernisation article in Town and Country Planning, September 2008: assessment of the Government's renewable energy consultation. Argues that it is a huge step forward in frankly acknowledging the UK's unimpressive achievements to date, huge opportunities and need for decisive action for the future, but that 'in trying to housetrain a fundamentally unsustainable energy supply regime instead of reforming it, the strategy foregoes clear, simple measures in favour of opaque and intricate market mechanisms of uncertain effectiveness; and its effects are likely to be overwhelmed by the antisustainable policies the Government is still pursuing in other areas.'