Richard Boyd
Richard recently joined Climate Change Central from the UK, where he accumulated over 15 years experience analyzing the economic impacts of policies and measures in the areas of climate change, air quality and energy use, and water resource and waste management. He has served as an economic adviser at the UK Department for International Development and HM Customs and Revenue, working on the mainstreaming of climate change into development and the economic analysis of the UK's environmental taxes, including the Climate Change Levy. Richard has also held posts in the Department of Economics and International Development at the University of Bath, where he has conducted research into policy instrument mixes for sustainable energy futures, and lectured on the undergraduate environmental economics and graduate cost-benefit analysis courses. Richard holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Calgary and a Masters of Science (Project Analysis, Finance and Investment) from the University of York, UK, specializing in environmental cost-benefit analysis.
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Richard Boyd is a Policy Analyst with Climate Change Central, focusing on the design details of a policy framework to establish an economy-wide price for carbon that most effectively achieves GHG emission reductions and encourages the deployment of clean energy technologies. His other primary role is to support the development of a strategy to help Albertans adapt to unavoidable climate change, including the development of climate risk management tools for public and private sector organizations.