Thomas Sweetman
Environment & Energy Research Fellow, 2008
Thomas is now Senior Policy Officer for Climate Change Mitigation and Energy at the Greater London Authority. During his time at Policy Exchange, Thomas co-wrote four reports for the environment and energy unit and wrote several opinion pieces for the media, including the Guardian.
Related Publications
Litterbugs: How to deal with the problem of littering
Litterbugs highlights the blight of littering in the UK, identifies a lack of systematic logic in enforcement policy and proposes new means of cracking down of those responsible.
Warm Homes
To quickly install basic energy efficiency measures in every household that needs them, the structures of energy efficiency finance and delivery have to change. Warm Homes makes recommendations on how to achieve this.
The Root of the Matter
In this report, we argue that preventing deforestation, promoting afforestation/reforestation and stopping peatland destruction are some of the cheapest and most effective ways of reducing global emissions.
Six Thousand Feet Under: burying the carbon problem
This report argues that Carbon Capture and Storage is essential to meet UK CO2 targets and deliver clean electricity and that the UK is ideally placed to spearhead a new movement to cutting carbon emissions internationally.
Green Dreams: A decade of missed targets
Green Dreams looks at the Government’s “green” targets over the last ten years highlighting a worrying high failure rate with little to show for hundreds of targets set