Biography of Keith Allott

Speaker at the 'Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change' public lecture 

Dr Keith Allott is head of WWF-UK's Climate Change Programme, leading a team that works on issues including the international climate change negotiations, implementation of the UK Climate Change Act, UK energy policy, emissions trading, climate change adaptation and aviation.

Before joining WWF, Keith spent most of his career working as Deputy Editor at ENDS, the leading publisher of information and analysis on UK and EU environmental policy. He also worked for the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and contributed to its 2000 report on Energy & Environment - the source of the Government's original target to reduce the UK's CO2 emissions by 60 per cent by 2050.