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AN ERA OF CUTS - reinforce the climate change and fuel poverty agendas: an interactive training day, Taunton, 28 September 2011.

An interactive training day, Taunton, Wednesday 28 September 2011

Presentations

Biographies of the speakers and seminar facilitators are provided below.

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Conference Chair: Tracey Smith - Author and broadcaster on sustainable living

Tracey Smith

Presentation Title: Sustainable Living
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Tracey Smith is a columnist and broadcaster on sustainable living and author of the best selling Book of Rubbish Ideas. She's a passionate advocate for matters environmental and has a positive, upbeat stance. She's also the founder of InterNational Downshifting Week, an awareness campaign now in its seventh year, designed to help participants 'slow down and green up'. She lives with her partner, a fellow radio presenter and producer, in the south west.

Peter Chisnall, Partnership Development Manager, Climate Energy

Peter Chisnall

Presentation Title: Sponsor's Address
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Peter is Partnership Development Manager at Climate Energy, a Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, and a Member of CIEH, CIWM, CIWEM, IOSH, CIBSE, EI and IOA. Peter has been with Climate Energy for three years managing the EST East of England advice centre and was previously with Braintree District Council since 1988, as an Environmental Health Officer and spent seven years as Head of Waste Management and Resource Efficiency. Peter has been involved with HECA from the outset and, in 2004, was awarded the Eastern HECA Officer of the Year at the UK HECA conference for his work with Braintree, Essex and East of England local authorities.

Colin Anderson, Chair of the SW CAN

Colin Anderson

Presentation Title: South West CAN
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Presentation Title: Workshop 2: Branding for success - Branding & marketing a successful local authority scheme
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Colin worked in the field of energy efficiency, fuel poverty and wider environmental and housing issues at the London Borough of Southwark from 1989 to 2004. He moved home to Devon in 2004 and took up a position at Plymouth City Council covering similar issues. He was involved in the early development of what is now the Carbon Action Network through a series of meetings at the Energy Saving Trust. The only person to have chaired two regions - London and the South West - in London, he developed a strong interest in community heating, CHP and decentralised energy and contributed to the early development of the London Heat Main idea to provide a heat network covering central London. He worked with colleagues in London CAN to set up GLEEN, which went on to develop various projects for the London boroughs, including an ESCO and private landlords scheme. He set up Southwark Healthy Homes in 1998 to help tackle fuel poverty and households with cold related medical conditions. Since arriving in Devon Colin has been involved in the development of a county-wide partnership originally known as Devon Warm Zones, thanks to a Government CEEF bid; this is now CosyDevon. As Chair of SW CAN Colin submitted a successful RIEP bid which provided funding to train council officers across the south west in RDSAP and City and Guilds Energy Awareness. Colin is currently Chair of CosyDevon and SW CAN, and operates insulation, solar thermal, heating, CESP and city-wide CHP projects in Plymouth.

Dr Brenda Boardman MBE FEI, Emeritus Fellow of the University of Oxford

Dr Brenda Boardman MBE FEI

Presentation Title: Fixing Fuel Poverty
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Presentation Title: Workshop 3: Fuel Poverty
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Until September 2007, Brenda led the Lower Carbon Futures group at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. In November 2007, she wrote Home Truths: a low-carbon strategy to reduce UK housing emissions by 80% by 2050 for Friends of the Earth and The Co-op Bank. Brenda has, in theory, retired and is now an Emeritus Fellow of the University of Oxford. She published Fixing Fuel Poverty - challenges and solutions with Earthscan in early 2010. The subject of fuel poverty is growing in importance across Europe. Brenda focuses on the built environment from the perspective of the user and the building provider, rather than the utility.

Karen Lawrence, Director of Delivery, Energy Saving Trust

Karen Lawrence

Presentation Title: Energy Saving Trust
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Karen is a passionate advocate of sustainability in both her personal and professional life. As Director of Delivery at the Energy Saving Trust she has led the development of the network of Energy Saving Trust Advice Centres across the UK, expanding their remit to cover microgeneration and transport advice as well as energy efficiency and more recently, water and waste. Karen has also led the drive to localise and tailor the various advice and support services that the Trust offers to citizens, Trade Partners, Local Authorities, and Communities to make then truly accessible and relevant to enable citizens across the UK to take positive carbon reduction actions. Her role covers the majority of the Trust's activities outside of Scotland.

Prior to joining the Trust over eight years ago, Karen held various positions in the commercial departments of Shell UK and Kingfisher PLC.

As a Governor of her local school, holding the sustainability portfolio, she has recently successfully supported the school to achieve their Green Flag under the ECO Schools programme. Karen is a Commissioner for the London Sustainable Development Commission, a Trustee of Carbon Leapfrog, and a member of the Business and the Sustainable Environment (BASE) London Advisory Group. She is a fellow of the RSA and a member of the IoD.

Charles Phillips - Assistant Director, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Plenary Presentation: DECC
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Charles joined DECC on its creation in October 2008 from the then Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). He works in the Green Deal team, and is responsible for the obligations that Government imposes on the major energy companies - the current Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP), as well as the design of the future Energy Company Obligation (ECO) that will run from late 2012 - and for issues relating to the involvement of Local Authorities in the Green Deal, including the future role of HECA.

Tristan Heath - Special Projects Manager, Climate Consulting

Tristan Heath

Workshop 1: Green Deal
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Tristan is the Special Projects Manager for Climate Consulting, developing business strategy while also co-ordinating project delivery to ensure consistent standards of excellence across the team. Tristan previously managed Climate Consulting's business support programme, aiming to improve environmental performance with energy use, transport, water and waste through a range of measures. Tristan has extensive experience of working on ERDF and other government projects and can also provide specialist sustainability training support for SME and corporate businesses as well as planning and sustainable transport experience. Tristan holds a BSc and MSc and has previous experience of project management, consultancy, development projects and pharmaceutical industry analysis.

Tom Vosper, Climate Consulting

Tom Vosper

Workshop 4: Optimising investment in RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) and FIT (Feed-in Tariff) technology
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Leading CEN’s public sector division, Tom advises clients on all aspects of energy efficiency and renewable energy from strategy to implementation. Tom oversees three teams of consultants whose services to the public sector encompass energy, water, waste, transport and sustainable planning and policy. Tom has worked with schools, churches, communities, prisons, local authorities and housing associations. Tom has worked extensively on both new build, retrofit and research projects providing broad sustainability services as well as specialist advice in the fields of biomass and photovoltaic technology and detailed financial modelling. Tom joined CEN in 2004 after completing his Masters degree in Physics. Tom is a member of the Energy Institute and is currently studying for a Certificate in Energy Management.