Aether - Air Quality and Climate Change Emissions Consultants

We are world experts in environmental data analysis and interpretation. Aether is at the forefront of greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality emissions calculation and review, in international, national and local authority markets. We are respected internationally for our niche expertise in this area. We are based in Oxford.

What we do

Our talented team of consultants use their knowledge and experience of sourcing, analysing and interpreting complex environmental data to create bespoke data analysis systems. We provide solutions for governments, local authorities, international organisations and property developers.

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Markets

We serve a variety of markets

National
Governments

Emissions inventory compilation, reporting and development

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Cities & Local
Authorities

Carbon emissions and air quality action planning

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International
Organisations

Emissions inventory reviews, training and data analysis

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Property
Developers

Air quality assessments and air pollution monitoring

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Case studies

LULUCF GHG Inventory Support for Romania

Aether is supporting the Romanian National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenic and Isotopic Technologies (ICSI) in the compilation of its national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory for non-forest land areas. We are helping to ensure that Romania’s land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) inventory is robust and of high quality.

Driving emission reductions through the public sector supply chain: Scope 3 emissions

Aether contributed to the analysis of procurement (Scope 3) emissions reporting in the Scottish public sector. The research aimed to demonstrate approaches and tools available to Scottish public bodies. The aim was to understand and report their supply chain emissions, providing options for action to improve supply chain reporting across the public sector.

Runnymede Borough Council Climate Change Study

Aether, in partnership with Land Use Consultants (LUC), delivered a package of works to support Runnymede Borough Council’s (RBC) review of the 2030 Local Plan with a view to introducing stronger policies to address the impacts of climate change.

Ealing Council Climate Action Plan Multi-Criteria Analysis

Aether developed a multi-criteria analysis of Ealing Council’s Climate and Ecological Emergency Strategy (CEES) to support the Council with prioritisation and delivery of climate actions to reach their 2030 target of carbon neutrality.

Luton Council Net Zero Roadmap and Climate Policy and Action Plan

Aether, alongside SE2 and associate Joanne Wade, developed a Net Zero Roadmap and Climate Policy and Action Plan to support the council in its vision of a net zero town by 2040.

LULUCF GHG Inventory Support for Romania

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Driving emission reductions through the public sector supply chain: Scope 3 emissions

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Our people

Meet our team

Chris Dore

Director

Chris leads international capacity building efforts for emissions inventory development with particular expertise in air quality. He is currently the Chair of the UN/ECE’s Taskforce on Emission Inventories and Projections.

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Justin Goodwin

Director

Justin provides hands-on practical development and improvement of Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems for greenhouse gas and other air pollutant emission, projections and mitigation actions.

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Melanie Hobson

Director

Melanie provides a broad range of expertise across air quality pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, projections and mitigation actions at the project level, cities, regional and national scales.

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Katie King

Director

Katie provides technical leadership for Aether’s work on the UK greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions inventories and for local authorities on climate change mitigation and resilience.

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Jonny Riggall

Associate Director

Jonny develops climate change mitigation and adaption strategies across a broad spectrum of sectors. He has skills in whole systems thinking, science communication and change management.

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Mark Gibbs

Associate Director

Mark is an expert in industrial emissions reporting, providing technical consultancy to national and international agencies. He also specialises in rail emission modelling, providing analysis for RSSB as well as rail operators.

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Rob Moncreiff

General Manager

Rob supports the whole organisation to ensure Aether is delivering the best possible service to clients around the world. Looking externally to keep Aether at the forefront of industry developments, and internally to ensure the organisation has a strong platform for growth.

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Rebecca Williams

Head of People

Rebecca has diverse People Management experience from a number of sectors supporting committed teams during times of growth.

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Natalia Segiet

Head of Operations

Natalia is the Head of Operations at Aether, bringing hands-on operational experience to support Aether’s growth and efficiency. With a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, she applies her practical knowledge and organisational skills to ensure smooth and effective business operations.

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Evelyn Cook

Finance & Operations Officer

Evelyn is the Finance & Operations Officer at Aether. She supports the company accounting processes and provides administration of project information.

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Cameron Bramwell

Administrative Assistant

Cameron is the friendly front-of-house at Aether, ensuring the office runs smoothly while supporting the team with a wide range of administrative tasks.

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Richard Claxton

Principal Consultant

Richard leads teams on the improvement of national level climate change and air pollutant reporting, policies and measures.

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Kirsten May

Principal Consultant

Kirsten leads Aether’s international development business area, bringing experience in inventory compilation and the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gases and air quality pollutants.

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Harper Robertson

Principal Consultant

Harper is the business area manager for Aether’s work with UK local authorities. He has an extensive track record of producing climate change strategies for cities, regions and public sector organisations. He specialises in designing carbon scenario models to inform policymaking.

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Michael Dray

Principal Consultant

Mike leads Aether’s land development division, bringing over a decade of experience in sustainability advisory services across all aspects of the built environment. Mike has a deep expertise in national building regulations and the planning system.

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Marcus Jones

Principal Consultant

Marcus specialises in sustainable transport and decarbonisation of the transport system, and is experienced in the analysis of fuel, energy consumption and environmental impacts of different modes and vehicles.

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Richard German

Principal Consultant

Richard’s main expertise lies in developing efficient systems to manipulate and quality assure data, and in producing innovative analysis and visualisations to communicate results.

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Kathryn Hampshire

Principal Consultant

Kathryn has experience in creating and improving systems for MRV and transparency of climate and air pollution action. She also has experience in analysis of the wider impacts of climate action, and calculation of emissions inventories, and specialises in data visualisation.

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Beatriz Sanchez

Principal Consultant

Beatriz is a specialist in agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) and air quality and GHG emissions, and is a qualified UNFCCC expert reviewer for the Agriculture sector.

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Bob Boyce

Principal Consultant

Bob has many years of experience in the processing and verification of industrial emission point source emissions data for national and international reporting. He is a National Expert for the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR).

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Ana Gomes

Principal Consultant

Ana is an environmental professional with extensive experience carrying out air quality Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for large mix-use development schemes, major infrastructure projects, industrial and energy planning and permitting within the UK and overseas.

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Jennifer Kaczmarski

Senior Consultant

Jennifer works directly with customers to build emission reduction projects, organisational capacity building and emission reduction reporting and monitoring.

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Holly Zhang

Senior Consultant

Holly manages international projects that support countries with climate reporting under the Paris Agreement and is experienced in detailed emissions modelling.

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Roxy Cottey

Senior Consultant

Roxy supports capacity building projects to help countries meet the reporting requirements of the Paris Agreement. She also provides climate advisory to businesses on transparency in GHG reporting.

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Annie Parker

Senior Consultant

Annie helps countries build capacity in GHG inventory compilation and MRV systems, as well as supporting organisations to quantify and report their carbon impact.

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James Sammut

Senior Consultant

James specialises in data modelling, analysis and visualisation, and has experience in the development of GHG inventory compilation methods, MRV systems and economic analysis.

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Susie Wright

Senior Consultant

Susie has expertise in analysing data and evidence to inform climate change policy and action planning. She has a particular interest in climate change risk assessment and adaptation, and joining up climate action with wider policy objectives.

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Annie Thornton

Consultant

Annie has experience across a range of areas including national emission inventory compilation, local authority carbon baseline assessment and air quality assessments.

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Lewis Blannin

Consultant

Lewis supports the development of efficient systems to analyse data and communicate findings through visualisations. He is proficient with coding languages such as R and GIS software such as QGIS.

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Jill Mitchell

Consultant

Jill has developed experience in greenhouse gas and air quality inventory compilation, data visualisation and is part of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) team.

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Alex Batchelor

Consultant

Alex is gaining experience in the development of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems, and supports on the compilation of air quality and greenhouse gas emission inventories.

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Isabella Chalmers-Arnold

Consultant

Isabella specialises in sustainability. She is an impact-driven consultant with experience in climate risk, mitigation and adaptation action planning. She has skills in GHG and AQ inventory compilation, air quality assessments, LULUCF, policies and projections, and report writing.

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Jack Bahou

Consultant

Jack has expertise in emissions inventories, data analysis, and programming, with experience in designing innovative tools to improve operational efficiencies.

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Kieran Lee

Energy and Emissions Modeller

Kieran works in the rail sector, helping quantify emissions and evaluate mitigation measures. He has experience programming and undertaking statistical analysis.

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Kate Attard

Energy and Emissions Modeller

Kate works across a variety of sectors, using her extensive experience in programming and physical systems to conduct large data analysis, visualisation, and interrogate results. She has particular experience working on rail projects, and contributions to film and TV emissions analysis.

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Farzad Shams

Energy and Emissions Modeller

Farzad is an emerging professional in the environmental consultancy field, currently supporting across a range of projects. His work includes contributions to the NAEI digital upgrade, quality assurance activities for the UK registry's competent authorities, and data visualisation activities.

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Lucas Bennett

Assistant Consultant

Lucas has been working on inventory development, data analysis, and reporting for local and regional projects. He has gained valuable experience working on local carbon inventories, and has contributed to the design and implementation of robust systems for tracking and reporting emissions.

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Joe Miles

Assistant Consultant

Joe is supporting a range of projects at Aether, gaining experience in an array of industrial and international reporting domains. He is also experienced in using a variety of software and programming languages for data processing, visualisation and analysis.

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Sam Putman

Assistant Consultant

Sam has experience in contributing towards completing air quality screening and modelling for development projects and building country specific greenhouse gas inventory templates for reporting. Sam also has researched the gap in emission factors for air pollution in Africa and Latin America.

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News

Latest news

Posted on: 11 February 2025

Aether to support world-leading UK Government emissions inventory

We’re thrilled to announce our continued work under the newly awarded 10-year contract for the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI).

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Posted on: 16 December 2024

Training Workshop in Kazakhstan on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)

In December 2024, Aether’s Melanie Hobson and Bob Boyce worked with the Asian Development Bank to provide capacity building on MRV and ETS to government Ministries in Kazakhstan.

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Posted on: 01 October 2024

Addressing the Inconsistencies in Investment GHG Emission Reporting

Inconsistent GHG emission data in investment reporting stems from undervalued resources, practitioner bias, and confusion over emission ownership, highlighting the urgent need for robust institutional frameworks to enhance accuracy and comparability for effective climate action.

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Posted on: 06 September 2024

Planning for Crisis: How the UK's National Planning Policy needs to step up to the Climate Emergency

The UK's planning system needs a more adaptive approach within the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) to effectively address climate change and achieve net zero goals. Without significant reform, it risks continuing to undermine climate efforts and fail to protect communities from extreme weather.

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Testimonials

Don't just take our word for it...

“The team at Aether works very professionally and communicates very well which makes working with them a pleasure. Outputs are delivered on time to high quality. The team brings the rigour of technical knowledge and expertise and finds innovative ways of communicating complex messages. I would be happy to recommend the Aether team to organisations working on analysing and presenting emissions information in the public domain.”

Fiona Glover, States of Jersey

“If we have a need for any more reports in the future Aether will be first on my list.”

Alan Hardy, Kyson Design

“We have worked with Aether since 2019 to baseline, and subsequently update, our council and borough greenhouse gas inventories. It is a pleasure working with Aether’s professional, responsive, collaborative and helpful team. ”

Merton Council

“Aether is a great partner for work in the area of European Air Emissions. The team was committed, reliable, well organised and had a deep technical understanding and motivated other partners with their good spirit.”

Umweltbundesamt: Environment Agency Austria

“Professional team and very collaborative communication. Effective result in terms of suggestions for improvement in the quality of the inventory and proposals on how to streamline specific topics.”

Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research

“The Aether team were a joy to work with and I would recommend the consultancy - the service provided throughout the process was exceptional. Where there were problems, they provided solutions. The team were working to very short time scales but were able to deliver a high quality piece of work within the specified time frame.”

Sefton Council - for the Merseyside Atmospheric Emissions Inventory

“Aether was a great asset in involving/engaging with Member States experts on highly technical subjects regarding GHG reporting. Very clear communication of issues and results.”

Andreas Pilzecker, DG CLIMA

“Engaging Aether to support us to develop the first GHG Inventory System and first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the United Republic of Tanzania has been a rewarding experience due to their high level of professionalism, creativity, timeliness and value for money. We will definitely consider Aether in our future initiatives.”

Abbas Kitogo, Programme Specialist Energy and Climate Change, UNDP Tanzania

“Chris was excellent to work with and always very pro active in making suggestions, taking work forward and applying his considerable technical knowledge in effective ways.”

Robert Vaughan, Defra Air Quality Team

“Aether's approach to couple innovative visualisation with high expertise manpower delivered valuable insights for our inventory work.”

Umweltbundesamt (Germany)

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