Professor John Barrett
Associate
John is Professor of Sustainability Research at the School of Earth and Environment| at the University of Leeds. He joined the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at Leeds in February 2011.
Currently, John is lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment for Working Group III.
Background
John was one of the lead advisors to Defra in relation to the development of PAS2050, and was commissioned by Defra to lead on understanding the carbon footprint of trade.
John has appeared regularly on Radio 4 news and discussion programmes and written numerous policy reports on SCP issues, for a wide range of audiences.
Key areas of his research have included the building of global trade models to understand the embedded carbon emissions in goods and services, and estimating the upstream carbon emissions from emerging energy technologies. These have now been used by numerous government departments to understand the consumer emissions of the UK, as well as the carbon emissions embedded in products.
Research interests
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Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) modelling;
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Carbon accounting and exploring the transition to a low-carbon pathway;
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The use of Multi-Regional Environmental Input-Output modelling to understand the effectiveness of strategies and policies to deliver a low-carbon economy.
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