Tommy Wiedmann is working on the methodological development of ecological-economic models and footprinting tools in the research area of Sustainable Consumption and Production.

His scientific work focuses on improving and applying Environmental Input-Output Analysis, with an emphasis on the environmental impacts of international trade.

Tommy is also an Honorary Associate with the Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney and Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Sustainability Accounting (CENSA) in York, UK.

Tommy joined SEI York as a Research Associate in September 2002. He has a profound methodological understanding of lifecycle approaches.

Initially specialised in material flow accounting and ecological footprinting, he has engaged into environmental input-output analysis since 2004 and guided most of the technical development of SEI's sustainable consumption software REAP.

His current work focuses on environmental input-output modelling for the analysis and quantification of impacts associated with international trade. In 2008, he lead a research project, funded by Defra, that produced a time series of the UK's national carbon footprint.

Work experience before SEI
Tommy holds a PhD in environmental and analytical chemistry from the University of Ulm, Germany. His previous research interest was in the fate and impact of persistent toxic substances (PTS) in the global environment and their control, reduction and elimination through international cooperation.

Prior to his time at SEI Tommy worked for six years as an environmental researcher and consultant in the Centre of Technology Assessment in Stuttgart and the Future Technologies Division of VDI in Düsseldorf. He was assessing pollutants from road traffic, working on sustainability indicators and was involved in global change research issues.

Education
1995, PhD, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, University of Ulm, Germany

1990, MSc Chemistry, University of Ulm, Germany

Publications

• Introducing the Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP) (2010)

• A first empirical comparison of energy footprints embodied in trade – MRIO versus PLUM (2009)

• Companies on the Scale - Comparing and Benchmarking the Footprints of Businesses (2009)

• A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts (2009)

• Evaluating Sweden’s emissions: at home and abroad (2009)

• A review of recent multi-region input-output models used for consumption-based emission and resource accounting. (2009)

• Environmental implications of urbanization and lifestyle change in China: Ecological and Water Footprints (2009)

• A research for improving national Ecological Footprints accounts (2009)

• A first empirical comparison of energy Footprints embodied in trade – MRIO versus PLUM (2009)

• Companies on the Scale (2009)

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Projects

• Ecological Budget

  
  

• Environmental Impacts of Trade (EIPOT)

  
  

• Footprint of Victoria and Queensland

  
  

• UK-MRIO 1

  
  

• Carbon Footprint of the NHS in England

  
  

• Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP)