Climate Change
Speakers
Professor Paul Fleming He joined the Institute at its formation in 1994 and has a long history of working with Local Authorities in energy efficiency and renewable energy. Following his PhD in Applied Energy at Cranfield Institute of Technology, he worked for Islington Council and then for Leicester City Council. He was also an elected member of the Council of the Borough of Milton Keynes and worked for the OECD in the preparation of their publication Urban Energy Management; a handbook of good local practice. His research focuses on energy efficiency, renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reductions at the local to regional level. This includes the technical, non technical and public understanding factors. He has worked with the UK Sustainable Development Commission on large scale area based CO2 reduction measures and is an advisor to the UK Local Government Association. Internationally, Professor Fleming has worked with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives and the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America. At the European level, he contributes to the Energy Cities network of environmentally and energy conscious cities and is a member of the Board of the Leicester Energy Agency and an advisor to the Newark and Sherwood Energy Agency. Paul Fleming is Professor of Energy Management and Assistant Director of the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development with special responsibility for the MSc Programmes and short courses. |
Kate Hughes Kate Hughes leads the public sector low carbon team, covering areas including departmental carbon budgets, public sector leadership and Salix funding. She joined DECC in April 2009 from Defra’s sustainable consumption and production programme, where she led projects on green claims, carbon footprinting and roadmapping of symbolic high-carbon products. Kate has also worked on rough sleeping policy, water conservation and consumer behaviour. She has done volunteer work in Ghana, has two children and is Chair of the Wandsworth Branch of the Parkinson’s Disease Society. |
Dr Debbie Hemming Dr Hemming has over 22 years of worldwide climate and research experience. In her current specialist role at the Met Office Hadley Centre, as Manager of Climate Impacts Analysis, she assists a wide range of organisations to understand and communicate impacts and risk of climate change. Graduating with a BSc (Honours) in Physical Geography, an MSc (Distinction) in Applied Meteorology & Climatology and obtaining a Plant Sciences PhD from Cambridge, Dr Hemming has had a series of work published around her global research in climate modelling and analysis. As an expert in climate risk analysis and impacts assessment, she is a member of several Professional Societies and institutions including the Society for Risk Analysis, American Geophysical Union and the Cambridge Philosophical Society. |
Stephen Ainger Stephen has extensive experience of the energy sector and not for profit financial services. After graduating in Physics from Bath University with a First Class Honours degree Stephen joined BP where he worked in the UK and overseas for 24 years in a variety of commercial and operational roles. These included Business Unit leader in the Middle East and leading BP Exploration and Production Strategy and Planning in 1993/4. He joined the BG Group in 1999 where he was a main Board Director of Transco and latterly Group Director of Strategy and Business Development for the Lattice Group Plc after the company was de-merged from BG. He left Lattice in 2002 to take up the position of CEO of the Charities Aid Foundation, one of the principal providers of financial services to UK charities and donors in the UK and overseas. He joined PfR in April 2007. |
Dr David Pencheon David Pencheon is a UK trained Public Health Doctor and is currently Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (England) [NHS SDU]. The role of this unit is to help shape NHS policy nationally and locally, to spread the best-evaluated practice on sustainable development, to promote an appropriate NHS response to climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) and to develop programmes of organisational and personal development in these areas for NHS organisations and employees. He was previously Director of the NHS Eastern Region Public Health Observatory from 2001 to 2007, serving the East of England. He has also worked as joint Director of Public Health, a Public Health Training Programme Director in the East of England, with the NHS R&D programme, and in China in the early 1990s with Save the Children Fund (UK). His main interests and areas of research and publication are: sustainable development, climate change, underpinning local and national public health action and policy with good information and evidence, training and professional development, organisational development, medical informatics and decision support, and education in evidence based practice. |
Simon Mills Simon Mills, Head of Sustainable Development for the City of London, has an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment from Aberystwyth University and a Masters in Public Administration at Warwick University. As Head of Sustainable Development at the City of London Corporation, Simon is committed to engaging the City of London’s business community in sustainable development activity. To this end Simon’s diverse portfolio has included developing the City’s Climate Change Strategy, leading research into eco-innovation and pro-poor finance, establishing the City as a Fairtrade zone, and founding the London Accord, the largest collaborative project ever undertaken into the financing of solutions to climate change. |
Dick Bradford Dick Bradford is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, a SAP 2005 ‘Competent Person’, National Trainer for SBEM and a ‘Low Carbon Consultant’ under the CIBSE Competent Person Scheme. A Building Services Design Engineer, with nearly 40 years experience in a senior capacity, he has held the post of Chief Services Engineer with Barnsley MBC for the last 23 Years. A specialist in controls and in application technology one of Dick’s earliest achievements was the pioneering of ‘Airless Kindle’ on Solid Fuel Boilers which served to demonstrate that coal could be better and more properly controlled and thereby economic in use. Primary fuel savings around 40% become the norm after his methods were applied. His comprehensive understanding and use of Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) has played a significant part in reducing BMBC’s Energy Costs and Carbon Emissions by over 50% from the expenditure levels that existed in the mid 1980’s. Latterly his insistence on designs utilizing Radiant Panels and Under-floor Heating with conductive screeds, as a departure from more conventional systems, has produced design solutions that operate better than the Governments ‘Best Practice’ performance criteria. The focus of his attention now is on the introduction of Biomass Technology as being the answer to many of the problems associated with national energy shortages and the need to make considerable reductions in ‘Greenhouse Gas’ emissions. Recognition of this work is seen in that Barnsley MBC received the Ashden Award 1st Prize for Renewable Energy Generation in June 2006 and an invitation from the EU, in January 2007, to join the ‘Sustainable Energy Europe 2005 – 2008’ Campaign as an ‘Exemplar’ organisation. Barnsley Council has also won in two categories at the 2007 Yorkshire and Humberside ‘Micro-generation’ Awards – ‘Best Public Buildings’ and ‘Best Policy’. |
Professor AbuBakr Bahaj AbuBakr S Bahaj is Professor of Sustainable Energy at the University of Southampton. After completing his PhD he was employed by the University progressing from a researcher to a Personnel Chair. He is the head of the Energy and Coasts Division and the Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) within the highly rated (UK RAE in 2008) School of Civil Engineering and the Environment. The aims of the Group are to promote and execute fundamental and applied research and pre-industrial development in the areas of energy sources, technologies and energy efficiency (www.energy.soton.ac.uk). Prof Bahaj’s work encompasses the study of urban energy systems (including energy efficiency, micro wind and photovoltaics), the built environment and climate change and ocean energy conversion technologies. He has authored/co-authored more than 200 publications and leads various projects on various aspects of these areas (see www.energy.soton.ac.uk). He is also on the Editorial Boards of Renewable Energy and the UK's Institute of Civil Engineering journal Energy. Prof Bahaj is a member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Supervisory Board and from 2001 to 2007 was a member of the BERR Technology Programmes Panels on Water (including ocean energy) and Solar Energy. He is also the Chair of the Technical Committees of the World Renewable Energy Congress - Glasgow July 2008 and Abu Dhabi September 2010, a member of the management and technical committees of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conferences (Porto 2007, Portugal, and Uppsala September 2009, Sweden) and a member of the BSI Committee GEL/82 on PV Energy Systems. At the invitation of International Energy Agency, he recently completed the 2008 status report on tidal stream energy conversion. He is also the co-ordinator of the EPSRC Eco-region research networks to develop research themes and projects to study eco-city development encompassing resource assessment and technology pathways for the production of electricity (www.eco-networks.org). |
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Jonathan Davis As the director of CABE’s skills and knowledge hub, Jonathan leads the skills team that is developing the learning of those working in the built environment sector, a think tank developing research and new thinking about ways to improve the quality of design and management of the built environment and the team which works with CABE’s regional partners to build the capacity to demand and deliver good design. Jonathan is an architect and urban designer and holds a masters degree in Regional and Urban Planning from the LSE. Jonathan has many years experience working in urban regeneration projects, particularly neighbourhood renewal and master planning of large scale projects for both private and public sector clients. He specialises in the sustainable design and management of the built environment and facilitating stakeholder participation in urban and environmental change. Jonathan has worked on projects in Britain, France, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Iceland. Before joining CABE in 2003, Jonathan was with John Thompson & Partners LLP, the London and Edinburgh based urban design, community planning and architecture practice of which he was a founding director. |
Professor Martin Parry Dr Parry was recently Co-Chair of Working of Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Formerly he was Professor of Geography at the Universities of Oxford, University College London, Birmingham and University of East Anglia. He is currently a visiting professor at Imperial College, University of London, and a member of the UK’s new Adaptation Sub-Committee. He was chairman of the UK Climate Change Impacts Review Group, and a coordinating lead author in the IPCC first, second and third assessments. He has published 5 books and about 150 scientific papers on climate change impacts. His main research interests concern impacts and adaptation on agriculture. |