Lucy is a non-financial accounting and assurance specialist with >19 years of experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions verification and advice. She is the Co-chair of the MRVA subgroup of the UK Emissions Trading Group. Since 2000, Lucy has been conducting verification audits for a range of programmes applicable to both large and small companies in the UK and elsewhere, including ‘climate change levy agreements’ (a form of energy efficiency related carbon tax rebate mechanism); emissions trading schemes; and mandatory emissions reporting. Lucy co-authored a guide for the World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness on the establishment of verification and accreditation systems for Carbon Pricing Instruments (2020) and is currently project managing/co-authoring a Technical Note for the World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness on developing emissions quantification protocols to support carbon pricing.

She has acted as a technical expert/accreditation assessor for the Irish National Accreditation Board and is a member of the UKAS technical advisory committee on management system standards where she has provided technical input for the development of ISO Standards such as ISO 14064, 14065 and 14066. She also participated in the BSI committee developing competence standards for UK Lead Auditors/assessors implementing energy audits under Article 8 of the Energy Efficiency Directive.