Helping leading-edge businesses, NGOs and policy makers to give the planet a break
What’s your question?
A policy paradox?
If you are looking for the policies, or mechanisms, that can drive fundamental changes, then I can help you. It might be a market-based intervention that you need, or a regulatory approach, or a change in structures of governance, or a voluntary approach. We’re only in the foothills of where we need to be and I’m keen to work with those at the leading edge of policy formulation.
A struggle with a strategy?
Your business, or organisation, might be reviewing its strategy, or seeking to understand how it might do that. I can provide the thinking, or provide the challenge you might need, to ensure your strategy has credibility and that it’s ambitious enough to address future challenges.
Championing a change?
Whether you’re developing policy for a national or regional or local government, or if you are working within a corporate setting, persuading peers of the case for the change can be crucial. I’m used to developing business cases, and impact assessments, but most of all, I can articulate ideas for change in a persuasive manner to generate support from your target audience.
Recent assignments
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Single Use E-cigarettes - What's to be Done?
Rapid growth in sales of e-cigarettes which cannot be refilled and whose batteries can’t be recharged has given rise to growing environmental and health concerns. This report, for Zero Waste Scotland, explores at a high level, options for addressing these environmental concerns.
Access the reports here (external site)
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Why we Should Sort Leftover Mixed Waste
With many materials sectors - and consumer goods companies - basing their net zero strategies on greater recycling, or greater use of recycled content, what does sorting of leftover mixed waste have to offer? What are the implications for landfills and incinerators?
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Global Emissions Reduction from Waste
What is the potential for GHG emissions reduction from better management of waste? Is the opportunity being under-estimated? This work was undertaken with former colleagues from Eunomia.
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Responsible Alternatives to Incineration
Coupling high quality sorting of leftover (after separate collection) mixed waste to biological stabilisation of waste prior to landfilling offers a zero methane, zero fossil CO2 option for treating waste that did not get soirted by citizens or businesses. The study considers the potential costs of such approaches, and the key variables driving costs.
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How EU Waste Policy Needs to Change to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Residual Waste
Is the EU’s preference for incineration justified? If not, what policies should the EU implement for the management of residual waste consistent with its circular economy ambitions?
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Review of Net-zero Report
A manufacturer of pet foods asked for a second opinion on a report they had commissioned on pathways to net zero. A brief report for them highlighted where they could make further progress
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Supporting Implementation of EPR for Packaging
How should producer responsibility organisations ensure their implementation of extended producer responsibility is aligned with EU law? How are concepts such as ‘full bet costs’, and fee modulation best implemented?
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Quantifying the Landfilled Residues from Incineration
The incineration of waste doesn’t eliminate the material - new residues are generated, some of them hazardous. This report estimates the amount of residues landfilled across the EU27
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Do Incinerators Reduce EU Dependence on Russian Gas?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted continuing dependence of the EU on gas imports for industry and for heat and power. To what extent do incinerators reduce demand for gas, and to what extent might they contribute to doing so in future?
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How Efficient are Incinerators at Converting Waste into Energy?
EU legislation indicates a preference for ‘recovery’ over ‘disposal’. An energy efficiency threshold is used to make the distinction between incinerators defined as recovery, and those to be defined as disposal. 98% of all municipal waste in the EU is sent to ‘recovery’ incinerators, suggesting the basis for distinction is meaningless.
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Plastics - International Legally Binding Instrument
I’m pleased to be supporting Reloop Platform, a leading NGO working on the circular economy, as they seek to influence the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in developing an instrument to address plastic pollution. I’m preparing position papers and perspectives on the issue.
These and other documents can be found here (external site)
