John Richard Barrett OBE is a British academic who is chair in Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Leeds.
Barrett was a lead advisor to Defra in relation to the development of Publicly Available Standard 2050 (PAS2050)1.
Barrett was commissioned by Defra to lead on understanding the carbon footprint of trade.
[2] Barrett was selected as a lead author[3] for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment for Working Group III and has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 4[4][5] news and discussion programmes and written numerous policy reports on sustainable consumption policy issues for a wide range of audiences.
[6][7] Barrett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to climate change assessment.