Kevin’s main responsibility at SEI has been co-ordination and project management of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) funded Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries (RAPIDC) and Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum (GAP Forum) Programmes, which have led to the development of inter-governmental agreements at Ministerial level on air pollution issues in South Asia (Malé Declaration), Southern Africa (Lusaka Agreement), Eastern Africa (Nairobi Agreement) and Western Africa (Abidjan Agreement).
Work with the GAP Forum highlighted the potential for developing integrated co-benefit strategies for air pollution and climate change and led to SEI’s involvement in a UNEP/WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, for which he was the co-ordinator at the secretariat for the assessment based at SEI. This work has led to his being the principle investigator of a US State Department Grant entitled ‘Facilitating Action on Short-Lived Climate Forcers in Developing Countries’ and to his involvement with the regional intergovernmental consultations and the national action planning activities of the Climate and Clean Air Association (CCAC).
He has organized international workshops on nitrogen deposition impacts to ecosystems and attended UN/ECE scientific and other national/international meetings on air pollution issues, as well as being involved in the European Nitrogen Assessment and the EU FP7 funded ECLAIRE (Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems) project. He currently sits on the Steering Committee of the European Centre of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI).
He has also worked on projects for the UK government related to air pollution impacts and the development of the ecosystem services approach and was the project manager at the Directorate for the NERC funded Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Sustainability (BESS) Programme.
He has 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 40 reports and book contributions.
- Integrated assessment of short-lived climate pollutants in Latin America and the Caribbean
- The Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning Integrated Benefits Calculator (LEAP-IBC)
- Post-Brexit policy in the UK: a new dawn?
- We need to talk about nitrogen
- Atmospheric corrosion effects of air pollution on materials and cultural property in Kathmandu, Nepal
- Asian Assessment - Atmospheric Pollution in the Asia Pacific: Science-based Solutions
- SEI initiative on low emission development pathways
- Integrating Short-run and Long-run Perspectives in Low Emissions Development Planning
- Promoting a co-benefits approach to reduce the threat posed by climate change and air pollution.
- Triple Green II