My job is to analyse policy instruments for improving the environmental performance of aviation and maritime shipping. I thrive on assisting policy makers in the design of policy instruments that yield maximum environmental benefits at least economic cost.
Expertise: Aviation and Maritime transport
My job is to analyse policy instruments for improving the environmental performance of aviation and maritime shipping. I thrive on assisting policy makers in the design of policy instruments that yield maximum environmental benefits at least economic cost. In the last couple of years I have been very active in helping policy makers and stakeholders prepare for the inclusion of aviation in the ETS. I have also studied policy tools of potential use for establishing climate policy for shipping.
Besides international transport, I’m also well-versed in issues of climate policy, with a particular interest in the ETS and the ‘flexible mechanisms’ of the Kyoto Protocol.
I’m particularly interested in the development and diffusion of new technologies, or in other words: innovation. Pursuing the theme of my doctoral thesis – corporate structuring of innovative efforts – I’m now looking at the kind of playing field that can be created by government, not just to encourage innovation but to steer technology in a sustainable direction.