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Laure has over 10 years experience in environmental and project management roles focusing on environmental law, energy & resource efficiency, waste & recycling, eco-design & product policy, sustainable clothing, green economy, environmental behaviour change, impact assessments and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Projects have been conducted in Europe and Asia for clients including UNDP, UK Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), European Commission (EC), Aid by Trade Foundation, International Energy Agency and British Retail Consortium. Previous roles include being a Policy Advisor for Defra on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Waste and Energy-using Products (EuP/ERP);a Research Analyst at Trucost Plc producing CSR and investor reports; Oxfam and EDF Energy Paris.

Jonas is an alumnus of United Nations University with a PhD in environmental economics and has fifteen years professional experience in Life Cycle Assessment, full cost sustainability accounting and Environmental Management Systems (ISO14001) in sectors including chemical, IT, buildings, food, energy and consumer products. Key projects include ecodesign of packaging and chemical services; IPPC and Waste Management Licensing, LCA and Carbon Footprinting to support EU Ecolabel, Green Public Procurement, PAS2050, WBCSD/WRI Corporate Reporting and Product Supply chain standards. He has been a Research Analyst with FTSE for Good on green finance.

An environmental and sustainability specialist with two decades of professional experience in the areas of sustainable energy; climate change , carbon footprinting & management. Paula has a PhD in climate change chemistry from the University of Oxford, as well as a Masters degree in Information Science from City University, London. Paula has worked in the academic, public, charitable, governmental and corporate sectors over her career to include at Forum for the Future, the Energy Saving Trust and currently Paula Owen Consulting. She is the architect of the first official UK government’s carbon calculator for the domestic sector – the Act on CO2 Calculator and the author of milestone energy/climate change publications The Rise of the Machines, Ampere Strikes Back and Elephant in the Living Room.

With an MSc in environmental science Martin has ten years experience primarily focusing on sustainable behaviour change in business and consumers. He has worked in the USA and EU on capacity building training in business and government to drive behaviour change on systems thinking, industrial ecology/closed loop techniques as well as sustainable procurement and supply chain management.

Anna McKenna has been the Administration Manager since 2006 and has over ten years management experience. Her focus is project management support, governance, events, training and contract management.