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John Richard Barrett OBE is a British academic who is chair in Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Leeds. He is the Director of the Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products (CIE-MAP) (one of six End Use Energy Demand Centres) and co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre.

Policy and media work

Barrett was a lead advisor to Defra in relation to the development of Publicly Available Standard 2050 (PAS2050)1. of goods and services. Barrett was commissioned by Defra to lead on understanding the carbon footprint of trade.

Barrett was selected as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment for Working Group III and has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 4 news and discussion programmes and written numerous policy reports on sustainable consumption policy issues for a wide range of audiences.

Barrett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to climate change assessment.

References

  1. "PAS 2050 Assessment of life cycle greenhouse gas emissions". shop.bsigroup.com.
  2. Barrett, John; Wiedmann, Tommy; Minx, Jan (July 20, 2008). "Development of an embedded carbon emissions indicator: Producing a time series of input-output tables and embedded carbon dioxide emissions for the UK by using a MRIO data optimisation system" – via www.sei.org. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Working Group II — IPCC".
  4. "BBC - Radio 4 - The Material World 16/3/2006". www.bbc.co.uk.
  5. "BBC - Radio 4 You and Yours -Energy saving". www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. "Route map to a low carbon Scotland and a better quality of life". University of York.
  7. "Rising energy costs and insecurity show EU must get real about reducing demand". www.ukerc.ac.uk.
  8. "No. 63714". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 2022. p. B11.

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