Projects per year
Personal profile
Consultancy
Senior Consultant and Workstream Lead, helping to deliver end-to-end sustainability solutions to tackle climate change, develop nature based solutions and benefit the environment.
Working with clients to tackle climate change, address scope 3 emissions and work towards net zero. Delivering life cycle analysis, environmental assessments, carbon management plans and value chain initiatives. Providing sustainable action and effective nature based solutions. Helping put research in to practice and delivering sustainability and environmental expertise for the full lifecycle of projects.
Areas of expertise include environmental assessments, carbon management, life cycle assessments, natural capital, nature based solutions, carbon offsetting and insetting, regulatory compliance and project management.
Projects
Diageo Regen Pilot
Three-year regenerative agriculture programme aimed at reducing the carbon emissions from growing barley and wheat for scotch whisky. Helping to reduce Scope 3 emissions and build long-term resilience into the value chain.
Defra Transformed cattle systems
Manure management, methane capture and precision farming input for a rapid evidence assessment of current and emerging technologies with potential for reductions in methane emissions and ammonia associated with cattle production.
Climate Change Adaptation for Agriculture
UIF project to provide advice and guidance to agriculture on adapting to climate change. Collaborated with Adaptation Scotland to produce guidance document and checklist.
Farm Advisory Service
Knowledge exchange and digital media output as part of FAS delivery programme. Producer of Natural Capital podcast.
Education/Academic qualification
MSc Environmental Sustainability, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 27 Nov 2014
BSC Hons Geography, University of Glasgow
Award Date: 1 Jul 2010
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 3 Finished
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A96 Stage 3 Agricultural Impact Assessment Huntly to Aberdeen dualling
Salter, F. (PI), Boyd, I. (CoPI) & Graham, L. (Technician)
1/01/21 → 28/05/22
Project: Consultancy
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Planning Application for Poultry Farm at Purreldeggie
Sheehan, M. (PI) & Boyd, I. (CoPI)
1/01/22 → 30/09/22
Project: Consultancy
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Integrating finance and biodiversity for a nature positive future
Rudman, H. (PI), Reed, M. (PI), McCarthy, J. (Researcher) & Boyd, I. (Researcher)
3/01/23 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
Research output
- 1 Commissioned report
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Evidence review of the potential wider impacts of climate change mitigation options: Agriculture, forestry, land use and waste sectors
Eory, V., Bapasola, A., Bealey, B., Boyd, I., Campbell, J., Cole, L., Glenk, K., Allan, G., Kay, A., MacLeod, M., Moran, D., Moxley, J., Rees, R., Sherrington, C., Topp, C. & Watson, C., Jan 2017, The Scottish Government. 156 p. (Environment and climate change)Research output: Book/Report/Policy Brief/Technical Brief › Commissioned report
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