Victoria Johnson

Victoria Johnson is a senior researcher and head of climate change and energy at nef. Victoria is working on a number of different projects that explore the interaction between climate change and social justice both in the UK and internationally. Her particular research interests include: the social impacts of technological ‘Magic Bullets’, energy equity, social justice and carbon trading, climate change and human rights, the feasibility of green/sustainable growth and potential changes to lifestyle, politics and economics in a post-carbon world in the context of climate change policy and peak oil.

Victoria has a BSc in Environmental Sciences, a MSc (awarded with distinction) in Climate Change, both from the University of East Anglia, and a PhD in Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College, London. Developing an interest in climate change and energy policy, she went on to work for the Tees Valley Climate Change Partnership where she coordinated local and regional climate change policy, developed an emissions monitoring and reporting protocol, and local and sub-regional climate change strategies.