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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
Communications 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:
- environmental law & policy
- communication & design
- public affairs
- marketing
Christian Hunt
Research Coordinator
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Christian is a marketer, researcher, and activist. He has built campaigns - most recently CheatNeutral - which combine activism, web media, film and viral marketing to communicate environmental messages creatively.
Before coming to PIRC Christian worked in the Publications department at the Centre for Alternative Technology. He has an MA in Conflict Resolution from the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford, and a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy.
Interests & skills:
- copywriting & editing
- number crunching
- carbon trading & offsetting
- game theory & conflict resolution
Climate Intern
Tim Holmes
Tim has
just finished studying for an MA in Media and Communications at
Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has previously worked on
the alternative media site ukwatch.net,
and has researched and written on climate change, media, public opinion
and new social movements. He has a degree in English and Related
Literature.
Interests & skills:
- Media and political communications
- Writing and editing
- Climate policy
- Culture and social change
Consultants
Martin Kemp
Research
Martin has a degree in Marketing, worked in the finance sector on Wall Street, and has studied Energy and Environmental impacts at post-graduate level.
Over the past year Martin has been researching the energy market for the zerocarbonbritain report produced by PIRC and the Centre for Alternative Technology. His current research area is examining how market-based instruments can contribute to decreasing carbon emissions.
Interests & skills:
- market-based instruments
- finance
- marketing
- IT systems & web development
Jamie Bull
Research
Jamie is a freelance consultant working in the fields of carbon and energy return on investment and Ecological Footprinting. He studied an MSc in Environmental and Energy Studies at CAT before going on to work on zerocarbonbritain as Lead Author and Research Coordinator.
Interests & skills:
- renewable energy systems
- embodied energy analysis
- humanitarian impacts of climate change
- energy return on investment
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