Julia Hoare has over 14
years as a tax partner and is the Partner in charge of PricewaterhouseCoopers’
New Zealand Climate Change Services Practice. She is extensively involved
in climate change, tax policy and legislative issues. She is also Chair
of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants National Tax Committee.
Julia’s comprehensive understanding of New
Zealand’s climate change policies and their impact on business is
coupled with her practical experience in relation to the reporting rules
for GHG emissions. She maintains strong policy skills through significant
interactions with Officials and Government on New Zealand tax and climate
change policies.
Julia has been responsible for the delivery of
various client assignments on wide ranging climate change issues including
preparation of GHG inventories, carbon trading, advice on the impact of
the now abandoned carbon tax, Negotiated Greenhouse Agreements, Joint
Implementation, carbon accounting, forestry, and agriculture.
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.
