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| Phil Summerton Manager, UK and Energy Modelling BSc (Bath), MSc (Imperial College London and SOAS) |
Phil Summerton is manager of energy modelling and UK economic modelling projects whose main specialisation is in the application of CE's large-scale energy-environment -economy models to analyse E3 issues in the UK and the rest of Europe. He is responsible for the maintenance, application and development of CE's large-scale econometric model of the UK MDM-E3. He also contributes to the energy-environment modelling in CE's two international econometric models: E3ME (Energy-Environment-Economy Model for Europe) and E3MG (Energy-Environment-Economy Global Model). He is a major contributor to CE's twice-yearly release of analysis and forecasts in UK Energy and the Environment (published as a report and on CE's Knowledge Base). He graduated from the University of Bath in 2005 with an upper-second class honours degree in Economics. In 2009, he completed a post-graduate degree in Sustainable Development with a specialism in environmental economics at Imperial College London and the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), which he passed with distinction.
His UK research experience includes: the lead modeller for CE's analysis for the Committee on Climate Change in the UK which assessed the macroeconomic impacts of meeting carbon budgets; a follow on project for the Committee on Climate Change examining the impact of the 2009 economic recession on carbon emissions and carbon budgets; the lead modeller on a project for the Green Fiscal Commission which aims to assess the environmental and economic impacts of shifting the tax base from labour to the causes of environmental degradation; an analysis of the demand for cars and their attributes (with particular focus on those attributes that are associated with environmental impact) for the Department for Transport; an assessment of the UK's potential role in the European-wide uptake of renewable fuel sources for Friends of the Earth; a review of the existing evidence base on the impact of climate change mitigation response measures for the Department of Energy and Climate Change to inform the UK's negotiating position ahead of Copenhagen conference of the parties and most recently a scenario analysis for nPower of energy demand in the UK under differing economic growth scenarios.
He has also undertaken a number of research projects on regions and sub-regions within the UK, these include; a modelling analysis of the costs and benefits of reducing GHGs from the Scottish housing stock for the Scottish Government; developing reference projections of carbon emissions for Scotland for the Committee on Climate Change, an assessment of the benefits of early adoption of the Code for Sustainable Homes in the Northstowe development near Cambridge; assessing the implications of the Climate Change Act on the Yorkshire and Humber economy in partnership with Arup for Yorkshire Forward and an assessment of the implications of climate change and climate change mitigation on the North East economy for the North East Assembly, also in partnership with Arup.
At a European level his project experience includes: a study of the competitive effects of Environmental Tax Reform in Europe (COMETR) for the European Commission, where he led on a deliverable examining carbon leakage and contributed to an analysis of environmental tax reform (ETR) using E3ME; and a study of resource productivity associated with ETR within Europe for the Anglo-German Foundation.