Simon Roberts - Chief Executive, Centre for Sustainable Energy

Beyond the ‘Wilful Individual’: an effective local authority response to the new Climate Change Programme

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Simon has been Chief Executive of the Bristol-based national charity, the Centre for Sustainable Energy since 2002, having been working in sustainable energy since 1985. This includes two previous spells with CSE and five years running Friends of the Earth's national energy campaign (1989-94). Before his latest return to CSE, he spent four years as a senior manager at Triodos Bank.

Simon is a Board Director of the South West England renewable energy agency (Regen SW) and a member of NSCA's Local Climate Policy Advisory Group. He sits as the South West representative on the DTI's new Regional Energy Group and he is a member of the Government's Renewables Advisory Board where he leads its Finance and Investment Working Group. He recently led a major project for Defra, the UK Climate Change Programme Review, examining the potential for action by regional and local authorities to curb carbon emissions.