Ricardo-AEA senior consultant Nikki Kent led the second peer review visit for the ‘Adaptation Strategies for European Cities’ project in Gibraltar last week. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA’s practice director for energy and climate change Heather Haydock will be speaking at today’s Future Electricity series conference (May 16 2013). Read more...

Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan aims to guide the country along a climate resilient and low carbon development pathway. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA will join a high profile panel at a Policy Forum for Wales seminar in Cardiff on Monday to provide insights on how to achieve the goal of zero waste in Wales. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA’s Practice Director for Waste and Resource Efficiency, Dr Adam Read, delivered two seminars at the Annual Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Conference in New South Wales (NSW), Australia last week (May 2nd 2013). Read more...

Ricardo-AEA will present evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Committee’s third session on energy prices, profits and poverty tomorrow morning. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA prepared an important study on the lifecycle emissions of low-carbon technologies for the latest Committee on Climate Change report on reducing the UK’s carbon footprint and managing competitiveness risks. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA is facilitating a workshop in Brussels today to help support the EU climate change adaptation strategy launched this week. Read more...

Flagship three year project will help improve air quality in Riyadh, capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA has produced a report for the RAC Foundation and the UK Petroleum Industry Association that provides an analysis of the predictions made in 14 other major studies for the take-up of low carbon cars in the UK. Read more...

In 2010, European households consumed almost 13 percent more energy than two decades ago and generated 25 percent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. This is a trend that must be reversed if the EU is to reach its goal of reducing primary energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020. Read more...

Leading environmental consultancy Ricardo-AEA has contributed to an important new book on shale gas published this week. Read more...

Around 100 senior officials from the police, fire and rescue services came together to share best practice on how to manage hazardous materials at the 6th Annual Hazmat Event in Nottingham last month. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA joined industry leaders from across the environmental sector in a panel of judges at the Sustain’ Magazine Awards, this month. Read more...

A Ricardo-AEA report on the potential for Combined Heat and Power (CHP) in the UK has been published this week by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) as part of an evidence base supporting the Government’s Heat Strategy. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA helped to launch a new business support programme for local businesses in Northern Ireland this month. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA joined a global consortium of experts in climate change policy commissioned by the World Bank to make recommendations on how to implement a greenhouse gas Emissions Trading System (ETS) in Chile. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA and Cambridge Econometrics, aimed to analyse the economic impacts of decarbonizing light duty vehicles. Read more...

Over 100 senior level speakers and delegates from a range of industries came together to debate how best to meet the challenges of mobilising international investment in clean technologies, in an event organised by Citi and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, supported by environmental consultancy Ricardo-AEA.  Read more...

Ricardo-AEA’s renewable energy knowledge leader Colin McNaught will chair the opening session of the Industrial and Power Association’s (IPA) flagship annual conference taking place in East Kilbride tomorrow (March 12). Read more...

Ricardo-AEA hosted a high level delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) during its visit to the UK from Wednesday 30th January to Friday 1st February 2013. Read more...

The consortium – led by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) in partnership with Ricardo-AEA – will provide a new one-stop advice service to help Scottish organisations reduce energy, water and raw materials costs, under this £3 million per year contract awarded by Zero Waste Scotland. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA’s energy and climate change practice director Heather Haydock is joining a high level panel to provide expertise on natural gas at the first EU-Norway Energy Conference in Brussels today. Read more...

Leading environmental consultancy Ricardo-AEA has validated the 2011/12 CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Performance League Table (PLT) published by the Environment Agency today. Read more...

Leading environmental consultancy Ricardo-AEA is advising companies preparing for new carbon reporting rules to act on transport emissions or risk damaging their corporate reputation. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA will help European cities adapt to climate change in a workshop in Ancona, this week. Read more...

Leading environmental consultancy Ricardo-AEA has grown by around 20 percent in Scotland over the past year. Read More...

Market insight and projections provided by Ricardo-AEA have helped one of Japan’s biggest companies, Sumitomo, to set up a new business venture, which is due to be launched later this year. Read More...

Ricardo-AEA will be delivering an eight week e-learning course in partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to help the poorest and most vulnerable countries make their voices heard in global climate change talks. Read More...

Ricardo-AEA’s Transport Practice Director, Sujith Kollamthodi, will be presenting at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transport Research Board (TRB), which is being held from 13-17 January in Washington DC. Read More...

Ricardo-AEA was a significant contributor to ‘The Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) 2012’, the flagship transport report that was published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in November. Read more...

The National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC), part of Ricardo-AEA, has recently been successful in bidding for a number of new projects. Read More...

A project set up to help European cities adapt to climate change has carried out its first coaching session in Gibraltar. The EU Cities Adapt project, which is funded by the European Commission, aims to raise awareness throughout Europe of the importance of preparing for climate change in cities, share best practice and develop supporting guidance on adaptation. Read More...

Ricardo-AEA was commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership to conduct a high-profile study to identify the opportunities to overcome barriers to the uptake of low emission technologies and fuels for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs). The project was completed to a very tight timescale and the final report, which was presented to Stephen Hammond MP, Minister for Transport, has received very positive feedback . Read More...

The UK’s Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance (CHPQA) programme is a robust and auditable accreditation methodology for assessing and certifying the country’s combined heat and power schemes. The former AEA Europe developed and implemented the programme and has managed it under previous contracts with UK Government departments. This work will be continued by the same team within Ricardo-AEA under the new contract revealed today. Read more ...

Ricardo-AEA’s energy and climate change experts are to undertake research on the current and life cycle emissions (LCEs)  of key low carbon technologies and alternatives as part of a new project for the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Read More...

Ricardo-AEA’ s Business Manager for  Combined Heat and Power (CHP) , Heat and Carbon Capture & Storage area, Mahmoud Abu-Ebid,  presented one of the main awards at the annual Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) conference dinner in London, earlier this month. Read more...

Ricardo-AEA’s Jamie Pitcairn will be speaking about resource efficiency in the workplace at the Base Glasgow conference in Scotland on November 13th 2012. Read more ...

Ricardo has announced today that it has acquired the business, operating assets and employees engaged in the business of AEA Technology Plc (in administration) (“AEA Europe”), for a total cash consideration of £18.0 million. Read more ...

AEA has launched a new app for the iPhone to help people with heart, lung and other breathing conditions aggravated by air pollution. The free app provides local, real time and forecast air quality information, and related health advice, to help users reduce their exposure to air pollution and its harmful effects. Read more...

AEA’s Nik Hill will be speaking on measuring and reporting transport emissions at next week’s Mandatory Carbon Reporting conference in London, organised by Environmental Finance. Read more...

The RAC Foundation and the UK Petroleum Industry Association have together commissioned AEA to write a high profile new report examining future low carbon vehicles and fuels. Read more...

AEA has won a place on the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) framework to support their chemical risk activities. The framework will incorporate definition of a systematic review methodology to support food and feed safety risk assessments and will also support EFSA to perform systematic reviews or related literature reviews, specifically focussing on chemical risks. Read more...

AEA’s Resource Efficiency and Waste Management Practice Director, Adam Read, presented to leading decision makers from Australia’s waste sector last week, sharing the lesson’s learned from nearly two decade’s experience developing the UK’s recycling and resources sector. Read more...

Major new report, Professional Perspectives on Waste and Resource Management for the CIWM, is launched by the 2012/13 CIWM President John Skidmore in front of 200 guests at the House of Commons. Read more...

AEA’s Oliver Edberg will be speaking on the opportunities for biomass heating solutions at next week’s Carbon Show (October 23) in London. Read more ...

AEA has been commissioned by WRAP to design a pilot event, aimed at potential investors, which would provide them with accurate and up to date information on the status of anaerobic digestion and energy from waste technologies in the UK.  Read more...

AEA is supporting Defra in gathering and providing pollutant emission data on 91 pollutants via a bespoke website, as well as provision of data to the European Commission.  Read more...

The CDKN Advocacy Fund has contracted AEA and the Multilateral Diplomacy Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to carry out a 3 year programme of training and capacity building for climate change negotiators from the poorest and most climate vulnerable countries.  Read more...

AEA has been commissioned by Zero Waste South Australia (ZWSA) to look at the opportunities and challenges associated with waste-to-energy in South Australia.  Read more...

AEA will support Zero Waste Scotland to look at the redeployment and re-use of electrical and electronic equipment, textiles and furniture.  Focus will be on the Further and Higher Education sectors, the Police Services and the Fire and Rescue Services within Scotland. Read more...

The European Commission has today published two shale gas studies carried out by teams led by AEA. Read more...

AEA will be launching its new waste-market research tool, FALCON, at RWM 2012. FALCON is a powerful data and GIS mapping system that provides users with a bird’s eye view of the current and proposed waste management landscape across the UK. Read more...

AEA’s Resource Efficiency and Waste Management Principal Consultant, Sarahjane Widdowson, is to present at this year’s RWM Conference, taking place on 11 – 13 September at NEC Birmingham, UK. Read more...

The Environment Agency published research carried out by AEA into the control of fugitive methane emission from unconventional gas operations on 10 August 2012. Read more ...

A new UK-AIR Twitter account has been launched by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the devolved administrations. Developed by AEA, it will be a key source of public information on air pollution levels during the London Olympics. Read more ...

European cities are being invited to help the EU adapt to climate change by taking part in an European Commission project led by AEA and ICLEI for the Directorate-General for Climate Action. Read more ...

UK businesses can get a head start on the government’s requirements for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) announced last month by taking action now. Read more ...

A report authored by AEA for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has helped build a greater understanding of how climate change could affect the UK waste sector and the potential for adaptation in the industry. Read more ...

AEA’s Mark Broomfield and Betsy Bicknell will be presenting at SMi Group’s third Shale Gas Environmental Summit, 29-30 October 2012, London. They join the debate to bring insights into the latest research, risks and regulatory challenges in Europe, together with lessons learned from North American shale gas projects. Read more ...

AEA was at the heart of recognising UK business’s environmental excellence, innovation and leadership last night, when 15 companies collected accolades at the 2012 Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Environmental Leadership Awards.  AEA’s Tim Curtis opened the ceremony, and guest of honour Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, presented the trophies and certificates to the winners. Read more ...

AEA is exploring the barriers to the delivery of business waste and resource processing infrastructure in London and the South East (L&SE) and identifying ways of overcoming these barriers in support of the European Pathway to Zero Waste (EPOW) programme Read more ...

AEA Knowledge Leader, Colin McNaught, has been invited to present at two sessions during this year’s All-Energy conference taking place in Aberdeen on 23 and 24 May. Read more ...

The UK Department of Business Innovation and Skills has published a new report, written by AEA and project partners CE Delft, on the increasing impacts of energy and climate change policies on carbon leakage Read more ...

EEMS Accelerate, the electric vehicle consortium featuring four British designed and manufactured prototype sports cars, revealed the findings from its 12 months of road trials at an event in London yesterday where actor, writer, TV presenter and electric vehicle (EV) enthusiast Robert Llewellyn was the key note speaker Read more...

AEA's Bioenergy Knowledge Leader Pat Howes has been invited to present at the 3rd Annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference, taking place in London on 3 and 4 May, 2012 Read more...

New report sets out the possible approaches that could be taken to improve international measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) rules for fast-growing climate finance flows Read more...

Join AEA at the launch of ecoConnect’s new technology, investment and procurement group: The Green Transport Business Network, in conjunction with the electric vehicle consortium, EEMS Accelerate (London, 3 May, 17:30 — 21:00) Read more...

AEA Technology plc has been awarded a 3 year, £3.65 million contract as lead delivery contractor of the Sciencewise Expert Resource Centre for Public Dialogue in Science and Innovation (ERC), which aims to improve policy making involving science and technology across government. Read more...

The Lightning GT, one of the electric vehicles taking part in the AEA managed EEMS Accelerate project, has been rated one of the top 5 green supercars by The National. It was recently put through its paces by Translogic's Bradley Hasemeyer, watch the video here...

AEA’s knowledge leader Chris Dodwell joined a high profile panel of experts to provide first hand reports on the outcomes of the Durban Summit and what it means to UK green industry at a sell-out event in London on Thursday 26 January.
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Defra and DECC have awarded AEA a three year, £4.5 million contract to deliver the UK’s National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI). Read more...

AEA’s former knowledge leader and project director, John Huddleston, has been made an MBE for service to the environment in the 2012 New Year Honours. Read more...

A new AEA-led study has provided an in-depth assessment of the integrity of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the European Commission. 
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