Benedict McAleenan

Senior Adviser, Energy and Environment

Benedict McAleenan is a Senior Adviser to Policy Exchange’s Energy and Environment Unit. He is a public policy advisor with over 13 years’ experience advising on policy development, political risk and thought leadership in the Energy, FMCG, Manufacturing and Engineering sectors. His private sector clients have included National Grid, Centrica Energy, the Renewable Energy Association, Shell, Centrica, Sainsbury’s, Endurance Wind Power and Balfour Beatty.

California dreaming: A plan to phase out petrol and diesel cars that might actually work

by Benedict McAleenan | Jul 30, 2020

Related Content Transport is now the UK’s biggest source of climate-warming greenhouse gases. While other sectors slash their carbon footprint, our cars alone continue to produce 15 per cent of annual emissions — and the figure is still rising. To tackle this, earlier...

Outbreaks and Spillovers

by Benedict McAleenan | May 8, 2020

Related Content How the UK and international community can lower the risks of zoonotic disease Zoonotic pathogens (those that originate in animals) are a growing risk to human populations. There were three times as many outbreaks in the 1990s as in the 1940s, and...

Bigger, Better Forests

by Benedict McAleenan | Dec 1, 2019

Related Content Foreword by John Humphrys Increasing tree cover in the UK is a matter of land use policy.This simple fact is often forgotten amid a rush to re-forest Britain through multiple schemes and interventions. This seemingly overlooks the fact that...

Net Zero needs a democratic mandate

by Benedict McAleenan | Nov 14, 2019

Related Content Net Zero will face a backlash if it doesn’t attain a proper mandate – this election must give it one, argues Benedict McAleenan from Policy Exchange This article was originally published at BusinessGreen.com Whether its ‘Essex...

Britain could be a world leader in how we deal with rubbish

by Benedict McAleenan | Mar 28, 2019

Related Content Emerging middle classes around the world are putting the pressure on the UK to think about how it handles waste. It should invest in innovation to become a world leader In the UK we think of ourselves as world-leaders in setting environmental...