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        Kevin Hicks

        Senior Research Fellow

      • SEI York,
      • Expertise: air pollution impacts
      • kevin.hicks@sei.org
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      Kevin Hicks has been a researcher at SEI’s York centre since 1997 and served as deputy director between 2014 and 2018. His research interests cover air pollution impacts on terrestrial ecosystems from local to global scales, ecosystem services, air pollution issues in developing countries, linkages between air pollution and climate change, and the transfer of scientific information to the policy process. He is currently the European director of the International Nitrogen Initiative.

      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.

      Publications by Kevin Hicks

      • Integrated assessment of air pollution and climate change for sustainable development in Africa
      • A comprehensive approach to nitrogen in the UK
      • Integration of climate change mitigation and sustainable development planning: lessons from a national planning process in Nigeria
      • The global impact of food production and consumption on climate, air pollution, malnutrition and obesity
      • Integrated assessment of global climate, air pollution, and dietary, malnutrition and obesity health impacts of food production and consumption between 2014 and 2018
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      Perspectives by Kevin Hicks

      • Seven priorities for COP27
      • The right to food: a global cry for urgent action towards sustainable food systems
      • How to better align climate goals with sustainable development

      Featured stories with Kevin Hicks

      • Air pollution and climate change – a deadly duo for Africa
      • Our guide to COP27
      • Africa assessment of air pollution and climate change
      • Tackling air pollution and climate change together - an impact case study
      • International Day of Clean Air for blue skies 2022
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      Projects and tools with Kevin Hicks

      • Integrated nitrogen management on Yorkshire farms (INMY Farm)
      • Pollution and Climate Smart Agriculture in China (PaCSAC)
      • SEI Initiative on Integrated Climate and Development Planning
      • Africa integrated assessment on air pollution and climate change
      • Asian Assessment - Atmospheric Pollution in the Asia Pacific: Science-based Solutions
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