About us

We are world experts in environmental data analysis and interpretation. 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.

Overview

Who we are & what we do

Aether provides consultancy in air quality and climate change emissions inventories, forecasting and policy analysis. We also provide air quality assessments for property developers.

Aether was founded in 2008 by senior members of the UK’s national emission inventory team. The initial team of four has now grown to more than 20, based in Oxford.

By transforming complex emissions data into robust emissions inventories we can deliver demonstrable environmental intelligence that can be used to inform policy decisions. Policy makers are then able to make informed, evidence based, environmental and economic decisions towards helping to reach emission reduction targets.

Alongside our core business, our team can also provide guidance on how to establish a framework and the tools needed to calculate emissions inventories for future years.

Aether is at the forefront of international, national and local greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality emissions calculation and review and we are respected internationally for our niche expertise in this area. We have significant experience in providing GHG emission modelling, the development of scenarios based on national statistics, local growth projections and specific local policies and measures.

We have key sector-specific experts (energy, industry, waste and agriculture/land use) who are internationally accredited in the collection, compilation, analysis and reporting/presentation of GHG emissions. Our core skills are in compiling, manipulating and presenting environmental data and we are experts with databases, spreadsheets, infographics and GIS.

At Aether we strive to provide excellent customer service, high quality evidence based analysis, and innovation. At the same time we create an enjoyable working environment.

Chris Dore, Director

Vision and Purpose

Our Vision...

A healthy planet for future generations.

Our expertise helps turn data into actions that solve environmental problems around the world. We form strong partnerships and share our trusted knowledge, enabling our partners to make positive changes for our planet’s climate and air quality. How do we achieve this?

Aether has a proud reputation for working with clients in a friendly and approachable manner, producing scientifically accurate outputs of the highest quality. We strive to broaden understanding, provide evidence, and build local capacity to mitigate the impacts of climate change and air quality issues.

We bring to our clients a comprehensive understanding of the causes and impacts of air emissions from a wide variety of sources, and we advise on measures and policies to control them.

We are known for building strong teams, communicating effectively, and engaging with stakeholders. We work smart, innovate, and lead by example.
Aether is a certified carbon-neutral company. We incentivise staff to make sustainable travel choices for both business and commuting. Our office is in the centre of Oxford, and all staff travel by bike, on foot, or by public transport.

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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Accreditations

Our accreditations

ISO 9001

Aether has been independently certified to the ISO 9001 standard for quality management. We have chosen to adopt ISO 9001 to ensure that we provide an excellent service. We believe its implementation will enable greater customer satisfaction and facilitate continuous improvement within the company as we learn and improve the way we work.

Disability Confident

Aether is proud to be a disability confident committed organisation (Level 1) and we are currently working towards gaining our Level 2 certification. As members of the scheme, Aether will ensure that any applicant who has a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010, is eligible to request that their application be considered for a guaranteed interview for any role, providing the applicant meets the essential role criteria set out in the job description. Click here for further information on our commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

SME Climate Hub

Aether has been awarded silver level STEM (Steps To Environmental Management). This scheme guides companies through legislation, calculation methods and mitigation options relevant to their Environmental Management System. Aether is also a certified carbon neutral company, offsetting emissions from the work space, national/international travel, and commuting, which are calculated using a tool that meets the criteria set by the Quality Assurance Scheme. Click here for more information.

Careers

Work for Aether

World experts in environmental data analysis, Aether employs a diverse team of talented individuals to transform complex emissions data into demonstrable environmental intelligence. We work with national and local governments, international organisations and UK based companies.

We are often looking to recruit imaginative and insightful individuals to join our team, we seek individuals with a range of skills from data analysis and policy development to project management.

Based in the heart of Oxford we are a passionate team, with a shared value of supporting a healthy planet. We are a team of experts, with a very human approach – we share our knowledge and have created an exciting, flexible environment to work in. Our teams work across the UK and overseas and regularly get together for work or social events.

We live our values – we regularly undertake environmental community projects as a team, and our generous pension scheme (8% employer contribution) either reduces carbon emissions, or looks to offset by contributing to environmental projects that restore balance in the climate, and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Development and wellbeing are important to us here at Aether. We provide our teams with professional development and inclusive support in a number of ways – we would love to discuss these with you in more detail. Our current vacancies are shown here. However, if you don’t see any current vacancies that fit with your next career opportunity, but you believe that Aether is the sort of company that you would like to work with, then please do send your CV with a covering letter to our team via recruit@aether-uk.com.

Testimonials

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

“The Aether team were a joy to work with and I would recommend the consultancy - the service provided throughout the process was exceptional.”

Clare Bayley, Defra

“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 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

“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

“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

“Saint Lucia embraces the professional approach with which this project was undertaken by Aether, particularly their ability to develop mentorship relations with local government experts. This provides a basis for ensuring that the pool of local experts remain engaged and recognized over successive processes.”

Annette Rattigan-Leo, Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer

“It is always an absolute pleasure working with Aether. I always know what is expected of me. Their work ethic is of a very high standard and projects are always handled in a very professional manner. I have learnt many skills in terms of project management, quality control and workshop training styles from Aether and I hope to carry these principles forward in my own work. I look forward to collaborating with Aether more in the future.”

Luanne Stevens, Gondwana

“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

“Both the face-to-face training and the online version have been of high quality, with dynamic methods and a practical orientation that have allowed students to reach a solid knowledge base. The products have been delivered within the stipulated deadlines with an excellent quality and the team has always shown willingness to make adjustments according to the requirements of CONAF. We are very satisfied with the work. ”

Javier Cano Martín, Professional Unit for Climate Change and Environmental Services, CONAF (National Forestry Corporation), Chile

“A heartfelt thank you to all the Aether team for this very comprehensive review – this is certainly turning out to be one of the most beneficial capacity building projects I have ever been involved in.”

Saviour Vassallo, Senior Environment Protection Officer, Malta Resources Authority

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