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Below is a complete list of speakers at the Carbon Action Network Conference 2009. Along with videos and pdfs of their slideshow presentations and videos of the Q and A Sessions.
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John chairs the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes and is Deputy Chairman of the Government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Group. He served as Chairman of the LGA’s independent Climate Change Commission. He chaired the recent BERR review of the UK microgeneration market; and earlier led the Fuel Poverty Methodology Review for Defra/DTI.
An economist, he worked for 28 years at SPRU, Sussex University, and now chairs the Energy Programme Advisory Board. He has been an associate fellow, Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University; and a visiting professor at City University. He was Specialist Adviser on energy to several House of Commons Select Committees for 22 years; followed by six years on the Government’s Energy Policy Advisory Board.
He is now a policy adviser to UK public agencies, Government departments and several international institutions, especially the NAO and Audit Commission. He is an Ashden Award judge; Patron of ecsc; a past President of the Institute of Energy; and a former Chairman of the eaga Partnership Charitable Trust and of the National Energy Foundation.
A graduate in Environmental Policy, Oliver joined Camden in 1997 as the lead officer on domestic energy efficiency, developing and managing its Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA) and affordable warmth strategies, as well as a range of sustainable development and social inclusion initiatives.
In 2002-03, Oliver was instrumental in Camden achieving Beacon Council Status for its efforts in tackling fuel poverty and initiated and managed Camden’s WISH (Warmth, Income, Safety, Health) Referral Scheme, which was a finalist in the 2007 Municipal Journal Achieve-ment Awards.
In January 2007, Oliver was seconded to the Camden Strategy Unit to help translate the new administration’s commitment to sustainability into action across the Council, and since October 2007 has been the Head of Corporate Sustainability, with overall responsibility for ensuring that the Council delivers on its ambitious commitments on environmental sustain-ability.
A former Chair of the London HECA Forum, the London Energy Partnership Energy Efficiency Task Group and the National Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes Local Authority Group, in September 2006 Oliver was elected Chair of the UK Home Energy Conservation Association which was relaunched in January 2009 as the national Carbon Action Network. Oliver has contributed to policy development at the national and regional level, including providing evidence to the House of Commons Parliamentary Warm Homes Group and to the House of Commons Communities & Local Government Committee on Existing Housing and Climate Change.
John Fawcitt has worked in the energy industry for over nine years and has held various roles across Marketing and Finance within E.ON. He completed his MBA at Cranfield and was appointed as Energy Efficiency Operations Manager in 2008 within E.ON UK’s Commercial Retail business.
John’s main objective is to deliver both the company’s CERT and future CESP obligations in support of E.ON’s low carbon strategy. While delivering these objectives, he also works to support the company’s brand positioning by developing and marketing innovative energy efficient products and services.
In this role he’s able to support customer retention and champion energy efficiency, both within the UK organisation and across the wider E.ON group.
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Phillip joined the Local Government Association in 2007 as a Senior Policy Consultant. He has led the LGA’s call for an area based approach to home energy efficiency, the LGA’s campaign for the devolution of decision making and funding for employment and skills to sub-regional part-nerships and acted as secretary to the LGA’s Climate Change Commission.
He has written a number of reports for the LGA including “Welfare Reform - the case for devolution”, “The integration gap - developing a devolved welfare and skills system”, “A climate of change”, and “Switch off, switched on: how to cut every households carbon footprint and fuel bill”. Previously, Phillip worked at HM Treasury where he led the review team supporting the Russell Commission report “A national framework for youth action and engagement”.
Before that, he was Associate Director of The Giving Campaign, a national campaign to encourage charitable giving in the UK, on secondment from HM Treasury.
Phillip joined the Treasury in 1990, straight from university. He also held a number of other policy posts including international policy on tackling financial crime and money laundering and project management of the Budget and Spending Reviews.
Phillip read Economics at the London School of Economics and has an MA from Loughborough University.
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Prof. M. Pourkashanian: PhD FEI CEng is the Head of the School of Process Environmental and Materials Engineering and Director of the Computational Fluid Dynamic Centre at Leeds. The CFD is one of the largest CFD centres in the UK and a European Centre of Excellence via EU grant.
He holds a chair in high temperature combustion technology with over 30 years industrial and academic experience in the field of energy and combustion. He has completed numerous research projects and received a substantial sum of grants from EPSRC, EU, NATO, and industry. He has published over 260 peer reviewed research papers and a book on coal combustion.
His recent grants related to carbon capture and sequestration, clean coal and biomass combustion and alternative aviation fuels (OMEGA) include those from EPSRC and EU.
He is the principle investigator on the EPSRC-EON Academic Programme for UK (OXY-CAP UK) Consortium and CCS project in EPSRC Collaborative Research with China.
He has been contributing to the organisation of main technical events in the field such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineering international (ASME) conferences since 2001.
He has coordinated numerous EU, EPSRC and industrial projects and commercial exploitation of his research included micro fuel cell, Low NOx Burners and the NOx post-processing computer codes and a soot/NOx model that were later employed in the commercial CFD software.
Question and Answer session With Professor John Chesshire, Oliver Myers, John Fawcitt, Dr Joanne Wade, Phillip Mind and Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian.
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Julie joined PRP in October 2007. Her background covers a broad range of experience in housing and project management, Planning policy and sustainability appraisals, BRE assessments and energy efficiency.
Her experience of working with local and regional government in the field of climate change and sustainability has included policy and strategy development, and guidance on the role of Planning departments in achieving sustainable development.
Julie has also worked extensively with Housing Associations project managing large scale regeneration in both new build and with the existing housing stock.
Her role within PRP concentrates on strategic sustainable masterplanning, developing area wide Sustainability and Energy Strategies and Carbon Reduction Strategies. Working on the socio-economic elements also, Julie helps develop policy and masterplans to incorporate a holistic approach to city-wide regeneration.
Julie leads on projects in consultation with clients, regional planning bodies and Local Authorities. She works primarily on mixed use commercial projects, early stage strategic masterplanning and large scale regeneration.
Julie is currently a member of the Sustainability West Midlands’ climate change mitigation group, ‘Sustainable Housing Action Programme’, SHAP.
SHAP 2007 - 2008 research project includes, setting reasonable ‘carbon reduction targets for housing’ in the West Midlands, how targets can be achieved through new build homes and the existing housing stock, the barriers that currently exist and how those barriers may be overcome.
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George Munson has been employed as the Climate Change Officer for Leeds City Council since 2006. The role involves both advising on climate change policy across the city council and working with private, voluntary and public sector organisations across Leeds to develop and deliver a climate change strategy for the city. This is due to be published in May 2009.
Prior to joining Leeds, he worked jointly as Climate Change Co-ordinator for GOYH and Yorkshire Forward, where he led the develop-ment and delivery of the first comprehensive regional climate change action plan and worked with the DTi to establish an innovative £10m fuel poverty alleviation programme.
Since graduating from the University of Sheffield in 1998, he has also managed an Energy Efficiency Advice Centre for the Energy Saving Trust, led a domestic energy efficiency programme for a London Borough and completed an MSc in Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
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Weather presenter Paul Hudson joined the BBC Look North team in 1997. Born and brought up in Keighley, near Bradford, he now keeps a weather eye on his native patch, from the Pennines to the North Sea.
After reading Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Newcastle University, Paul joined the Met Office and worked for two years at Leeds Weather Centre. He combined this with a two-year stint as number two Weather Presenter for BBC Look North and for the BBC local radio stations in Leeds, York, Humberside and Sheffield and Lincolnshire.
In 1995 Paul moved on to take a job as an International Forecaster at the Met Office Headquarters in Bracknell, where he was on hurricane and cyclone watch for places such as the Carribean and the Bay of Bengal. In 1997 he returned North to join presenter Peter Levy on the set of Look North in East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, and Harry and Christa on Look North in Yorkshire
Paul is an avid Bradford City fan and plays golf and cricket. In May 2006, he was elected honorary Mayor of Wetwang, a village in the Yorkshire Wolds, replacing the late Richard Whiteley.
Paul was voted RTS Yorkshire and Lincolnshire presenter of the year in 2007 and in the Autumn of that year became the BBC’s first Climate correspondent, a role he splits with weather presenting, reporting on issues relating to climate change. He has written 4 books on the weather, the latest with ex colleagues Michael Fish and Ian McCaskill on Extreme weather. More recently Paul has joined the European broadcasters network on climate change, and is a member of the Royal Meteorological society.
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Andy is currently the Head of Local Authority Services at the Energy Saving Trust, a role which includes overseeing their Practical help, local authority one-to-one support and Energy Services programmes. Prior to joining EST, Andy was Climate Change, Energy and Air Quality Strategy Manager for the Greater London Authority, where he worked on the development and roll out of the Mayor’s Climate Change Action Plan and the London spatial development Plan as well as a range of Mayoral Strategies and Partnerships. He has an MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology from the University and Birmingham, and has published a number of journal articles and book contributions in the fields of weather, climate and air quality.
Question and Answer session With Professor John Chesshire, Paul Hudson, Ben Scotting and Andy Deacon.
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Nick entered the waste industry in 1990 as Project Manager for one of the UK’s first landfill gas utilisation schemes, with Wimpey. On leaving Wimpey he joined Combined Landfill Projects as Operations Director before moving to ENER-G group in 1998 as Managing Director for its LFG business, Natural Power. In June 2004, Nick moved across to take responsibility for ENER-G’s energy from waste division following its acquisition of ENERGOS and is now responsible for its development.
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Dr Gary Haq is a Human Ecologist at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, where he undertakes research on human behaviour and the environment. He has been involved in climate change communication and social marketing initiatives to achieve behavioural change. He coordinated a climate change communication project aimed at raising awareness of climate change issues in the over 50s.
He is lead author of the 2007 report Greening the Greys: Climate Change and the over 50s and in 2008 he hosted a national workshop on older people and climate change in collaboration with Help the Aged and the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly. This resulted in the publication of the report Growing Older in a Changing Climate: Meeting the challenges of an ageing population and climate change which outlines recommendations to better protect older people from the impact of climate change.
He is currently working with Help the Aged/Age Concern on an initiative to encourage older people to adopt greener lifestyles. He is author of the blog A Human Ecologist’s View accessible at www.humanecologist.co.uk.
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Question and Answer session With Professor John Chesshire, Nick Dawber, Dr Gary Haq and Zoe Leader.
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Is clean coal the new technology of the future or a disguised pollutant? The clean coal and renewables departments at E.ON put their case forward for discussion.
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‘Project Counter Attack’ is a hugely successful project in Blackpool and will look at report findings on identifying the barriers in accessing existing services and grants.
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Find out how the ‘Switch Off’ campaign organisers, organised in conjunction with all Councils throughout Leicester and Leicestershire, promoted turning off equipment in offices and businesses across the county.
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The ‘mini’ Stern report for the Manchester City Region, the analysis follows that of the Stern Report and argues that continuing with “business as usual” will be far more expensive in the long term. The 8-page report focuses on the four key sectors that are most likely to be directly affected by any lack of economic adaptation and examines some of the challenges and opportunities.
