Welcome to the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)'s Youth Advisory Panel (YAP)'s blog. The DECC YAP is a group of young people aged between 15 and 25 from all over the UK, with a wide-range of backgrounds, from academia to activism.

Our aim is to inform everyone and anyone about DECC's activities and likewise to help DECC understand and take into account the concerns of young people. We are a medium of consultancy and conversation. Much of our work looks at finding a 'Pathway to 2050', reviewing how energy with be supplied and used in the next four decades, so follow us and join us on the journey!

Panellists

Below is a list of the members of the Youth Panel - click the links to view extended profiles or posts by them.
  • Edward Byers
    • Edward is a PhD researcher in Infrastructure Systems atNewcastle University, researching long term integrated infrastructure futuresfor energy, transport, water and waste. Edward works with the InfrastructureTransitions Research Consortium and the Tyndall Centre for Climate ChangeResearch, lives in Newcastle, and loves camping and hiking.
  • Elizabeth Anderson (chair)
    • UK Youth Climate Coalition
    • Elizabeth is the UK Youth Climate Coalition Government Liaison Officer.  She's 25 and has always been interested in the environment.  She works for a London education and youth charity running projects and programmes, and is also taking a Masters in Communications and Public Affairs.
  • Ella Sivan
    • Biography coming soon
  • George Harper
  • Heather Kitt
    • Biography coming soon
  • Helena Wright
  • Jade Mitchell
    • Passionate about inspiring others to reduce waste of all kinds, Jade is a reuse craft workshop facilitator and general waste fanatic. With a background working in diverse communities in London, she brings a grass roots perspective to panel policy discussions.
  • Joshua Snape
    • British Youth Council
    • I am a Trustee of the British Youth Council which works to campaign with, inspire and empower all young people to take action and have their say. I am particularity interested in environmental issues, the empowerment of young people and their involvement in youth governance.
  • Kristian Marr
    • I have developed my interest in environmental and energy issues whilst undertaking my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, which gave me the opportunity to conduct my own research in Svalbard. I am also a volunteer at my local Wildfowl & Wetland Trust centre, where I help people of all ages engage with the natural environment through the canoe safari.
  • Mairi McInnes
  • Reuben Chesters
    • Since graduating in Sustainable Environmental Management Reuben has worked as a Home Energy Assessor, Climate Adaptation Project Officer and Freelance Events Manager. He has most recently focused on establishing South Seeds, a community and environmental development Charity in Glasgow which he has secured around £70,000 of funding for.
  • Rose Wilson
    • After having a radical start to my early teens i was a member of several youth councils before becoming chair person of Hampshire County Youth Council, from here i got onto Plan's panel. I'm currently working a generic corporate job (though they let me write their environmental policy) but also work with young people facilitating a youth council, so as well as Plan's reach of young people, I have other good and extensive networks of young people. In 2050 I'll be 57.
    • Other trivial knowledge? I've hitch hiked around Europe twice, I'm vegan and I was a fashion student at college!
  • Sasha Pratt
    • Biography coming soon
  • Stephen Marshall
    • Biography coming soon
  • Tom Mower
    • Biography coming soon
  • Tom Youngman
    • 'Green Flag' School and Local Activist.
    • Young activist from Bath, Somerset. Have done much work reducing carbon emissions within my own and other schools in Bath as well as in a very practical way in my local community. Will be going to COP17 in Durban as part of UKYCC's delegation in December.
  • Unkha Banda
  • Zain Awan
    • Biography coming soon




Former panellists:
  • Aakash Naik
    • National Union of Students
    • President of Portsmouth University's Students' Union, youth delegate at the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Full biography coming soon.
  • Alice Hemming
    • People & Planet
    • I started campaigning with People & Planet whilst at university and have since begun an internship at the support office as coordinator of their climate change campaign. I am currently working on empowering young people to create positive behaviour change within their universities.
  • Eleanor Carter
      • John Northall
        • Katie Haywood
          • UNICEF and National Trust
          • A couple of years ago I started volunteering and campaigning about environmental issues in my local community. Since then, I have joined the National Trust 'You, Me & The Climate' project and was a delegate to the UNICEF Children's Climate Forum.
        • Kirsty Scheeberger MBE
          • Think 2050 among others, group facilitator
          • Employed as a consultant by the Department for Energy and Climate Change to facilitate for the Youth Panel. Full biography coming soon.
        • Luke Hughes
          • UNICEF
          • I'm 18 years old and I live in Newcastle. By day I'm a university student, but by night I'm a UNICEF Climate Ambassador, having represented the UK's youth at the Children's Climate Forum in Copenhagen in late 2009.
          • Michael Furey
            • DEFRA intern and group 'Carbon-Footprinter'
            • Biography coming soon.
            • Nic Seton
              • WWF
              • I traveled from Australia overland to arrive in the UK in 2008. I've been working on environmental-fairness for young people in a number of countries over the past 4 years and now I support the DECC Youth Panel on behalf of WWF-UK - In 2050 I will be 65.
              • Tom Williams
                • Scouts
                • I started my school environment group, and my interest in climate change grew from there. I'm a Scout Young Campaigner, which means I represent the Scouts at events and in different campaigns.
                • Zachary Confino
                  • Energy Savings Trust
                  • I got more heavily involved with the issues of climate change when I was approached by the Energy Savings Trust (EST) in 2008 to document the 'climate monstrosities' around my house, ie. lights left on, heating too hige, et cetera. I was invited by EST to join the YAP and i happily accepted. I am heavily involved with the Scout movement, since age eight, and have encouraged climate change awareness within my district. I am also a member of the Eco-Council at my school and have (finally) got some recycling bins throughout the school.
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