Benedict McAleenan, Author at Policy Exchange

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.

Government to explore Policy Exchange’s 2018 recommendation for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

by Benedict McAleenan | May 27, 2022

Related Content This week the Government announced that it is considering taxing imports from countries that don’t match the UK’s carbon emissions standards – a measure known as a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). That would be a major change to...

We should be preparing for a Russian gas shut-off

by Benedict McAleenan | Mar 4, 2022

Related Content It won’t be easy, but it might be possible Over the weekend, long-held policy positions fell like dominoes in Berlin. Having already blocked his country’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia, Olaf Scholz committed to two new Liquefied Natural Gas...

A Three-Pronged Attack

by Benedict McAleenan | Oct 31, 2021

Read online or Download pdf Previous: Course Correction Next: The case for a carbon offsetting kitemark Dambisa Moyo makes the case for a new policy and market environment designed to unleash climate capital By Dr Dambisa Moyo There is not a single room of policy...

Course Correction

by Benedict McAleenan | Oct 29, 2021

Read online or Download pdf Next: A Three-Pronged Attack Environmental Policy increasingly reaches the heart of all policy areas, starting with questions of the global balance of power Editorial by Benedict McAleenan At some point in the last few years, environmental...

Environmental Affairs – Unleashing Climate Capital

by Benedict McAleenan | Oct 29, 2021

Unleashing Climate Capital Environmental Affairs is Policy Exchange’s quarterly journal, which explores the implications of the growing role of environmental policy. In this edition, Unleashing Climate Capital, our contributors consider policies promoting green...