Julia is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and leads the New Zealand Sustainability and Climate Change Services practice.
She works with New Zealand businesses assisting them with carbon management strategies, carbon footprints, verification, compliance, assessing the impact of carbon on a business' value, ETS advice, and carbon credit trading and creation. She has extensive experience advising on both regulatory matters and issues in the voluntary market.
Julia has been a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 16 years focusing extensively on climate change, carbon, tax policy and legislative issues. She is extensively involved in climate change policy and was on the Government's Leadership Forum on Climate Change. She also participates on working groups considering business opportunities, complimentary measures, the voluntary market and emission unit allocations to industry.
Chris Taylor is a partner in our Advisory practice. Chris is a corporate finance specialist with a background in the infrastructure and energy sectors. More recently Chris has focused on the linkages between these sectors and the climate change and carbon markets, with a view to identifying value creating opportunities in the climate change sector for businesses. Chris also has a strong understanding of the operation of the carbon markets, both regulated and voluntary.
Chris works with clients to assess the impact of climate change on their businesses, opportunities to manage their exposures, the potential for carbon credit generation and offset strategies. Chris has worked extensively in the energy, infrastructure and climate change sectors both in New Zealand and internationally, advising on a variety of assignments including emission reduction projects, carbon offset strategies, project feasibility studies and modelling, and transaction and strategic advice.
Simon Upton is a specialist advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers. A former New Zealand Member of Parliament (for 19 years) an a senior cabinet minister for nine years, Simon held a wide range of portfolios including environment, research, science and technology, biosecurity, health and state services. As Minister for the Environment, Simon was responsible for enacting both the Resource Management Act and the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act. In this capacity he worked extensively with regional and territorial local government. On the international stage, the environment portfolio saw Simon involved in the entire negotiating agenda of the 1990s including the process leading to the Kyoto Protocol and the Biosafety Protocol.
On retiring from Parliament in 2001, Simon took up the chairmanship of the Round Table on Sustainable Development at the OECD. He developed the Round Table into a significant high level forum which has made significant contributions to a variety of sustainable development issues including climate change, energy security and the sustainability of forestry and fishing. Simon left the Round Table in January 2007 to join PWC and a variety of other policy and business projects. He directs the Global Subsidies Initiative (a project promoted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development). Other commitments include membership of the Advisory Board to the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, the Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University and membership of the International Council for Sustainable Innovation of Switzerland (ISIS).
Simon is a qualified lawyer and a Rhodes Scholar. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand Society in 1999, and made a member of the Privy Council in the same year.
Lesley Anderson is a partner in our Wellington office and leads our Wellington Climate Change team. She has led a large number of financial audits for a broad spectrum of clients across a wide range of industries as well as leading many internal audit reviews and other non financial reviews at public and private sector clients.
Lesley has led a wide range of climate change services including providing advice on greenhouse gas inventory preparation and independent assurance of greenhouse gas inventories. Lesley is a certified carboNZero auditor.
Lesley also has extensive public sector knowledge and experience from her recent secondment to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
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Duncan Scott is an assurance specialist with a focus on the Government and Public Sector, and he is a key member of our Wellington climate change team. Duncan is involved in providing GHG inventory verification services in New Zealand, and has also worked on a range of non-financial assurance projects for Government and Public Sector organisations in areas such as data quality and performance improvement.
Duncan will bring in-depth knowledge of the provision of assurance based services, experience of GHG verification projects, and a proven commitment and enthusiasm for working with Government and Public Sector organisations.
Murray Harrington leads our South Island Climate Change team and is a business assurance specialist with a focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors. Murray has worked with a number of clients both in New Zealand and internationally advising on various energy and infrastructure assignments including internal audit, business risk management, project risk management, mergers and acquisition and strategic advice.
Alex recently joined the PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand practice from the UK where she was latterly responsible for managing PwC's assurance of sustainability related information in the Shell Report and the Shell Nigeria Report. Alex is now extensively involved in PwC's business development in the sustainability field in New Zealand. She is also the lead consultant for work with one of the Auckland council's on climate change scenarios, she is responsible for the firm's work on the validation of the Corporate Responsibility Index in New Zealand and leads PwC's range of sustainability services. Alex has been working in the sustainable development and climate change field, in various capacities, for fifteen years, with organisations such as SustainAbility, Social Venture Network and the New Academy of Business.
