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Consisting of three staff members, PIRC is small, independent and free thinking. With a compact, flexible team, PIRC can pursue avenues not always addressed by larger organisations. PIRC now has its main office in Mid Wales, with staff:
Tim Helweg-Larsen
Director
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Tim has an extensive history of climate change research and advocacy. He lectures and runs workshops internationally on Contraction & Convergence and climate policy, and has represented the Global Commons Institute and Action for a Global Climate Community.
He has worked as a Consultant on climate change policy, and lectured at the Buildings Research Establishment. He has contributed to a lecture series around the UK for Campaign Against Climate Change and was lead lecturer for the Climate change module on the Masters course in Integrated Sustainable Management for Business at Middlesex University.
In 2007 he was awarded (see right) the Sheila McKechnie Award in the field of Environment in recognition of his work.
Interests & skills:
- national & international climate policy
- Contraction & Convergence
- climate science & climate feedbacks
- renewable energy systems
Richard Hawkins
Research Coordinator
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Richard has a degree in Law, specialising in International Environmental Law (and more particularly the lack of it!). He was previously a freelance web designer, founding The Green Shed, an ethical and environmental web design company.
Richard oversaw the design & production of the zerocarbonbritain report & website as well as coordinating its public affairs campaign. He is currently studying a part-time Masters in Energy and Environmental Studies.
Interests & skills:
- climate science
- renewable energy integration
- environmental law & policy
- information & data design
Guy Shrubsole
Communications Coordinator
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Guy is a researcher, writer and activist. Before joining PIRC, he worked for the UK Department of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), and the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture (MAF).
Guy helped set up the Carbon Rationing network and is part of this year’s Youth Delegation to the climate talks in Copenhagen. He has a BA in Modern History from Merton College, Oxford and a Masters in Sustainable Development from Middlesex University.
Interests & skills:
- renewable energy
- sustainable agriculture
- environmental history
- drawing political cartoons
Business Development
Anton West
Business Development Officer
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Anton is a freelance consultant
and lecturer working in the fields of renewable energy, and environmental
management of business. He has a degree in Environmental science specialising
in climate science from the University of Plymouth, UK. He studies an
MBA in Renewable Energy majoring in Corporate Environmental Management
at Jyvaskyla University, Finland.
Interests & skills:
- Techno-economic-environmental
project analysis
- Electricity markets
& renewable integration
- Carbon & energy
management
- Environmental law
& policy
- Mountain biking, climbing and surfing
Energy Intern
Calvin Jones
Calvin has a degree in Biomolecular Sciences from the University of St Andrews and a lifelong interest in science. Calvin has previously volunteered full time with Campaign against Climate Change. Calvin reads widely about sustainability, climate policy and climate science but recently he has been working on coal and it's alternatives in China. This work includes looking at how intermittancy can be overcome in a renewable energy grid, work that he now continues as PIRC's energy intern.
Interests & skills:
- Renewable energy systems and the electric grid.
- Carbon capture and storage: effectiveness, politics and side-effects.
- The links between human rights, law and climate change.
- Language and communication.
- Video editing.
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