Matt Prescott

Project Director, Carbon Limited

Matt is the director of a new initiative from the RSA – CarbonLimited, a project developing the policy idea for personal carbon trading which would involve individuals and communities in climate change mitigation.

A geographer and environmental scientist, graduating from University College London and the University of Leeds, he was an editor at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors before turning to project management, including on award winning sustainable construction and regeneration projects such as Brixton's Angell Town.

Matt lives in a far-from-airtight solid-walled, single glazed Victorian building in Battersea, London, but points to a reclaimed timber floor (which was once the floor of a local gym), his surprisingly rare need for space heating, his dislike for shopping and the fact that he cycles everywhere as good trade-offs. His projected personal emissions on RSA CarbonDAQ of 1.34 tonnes of CO2 per annum aren’t, he suggests, all that easy to beat. www.theRSA.org/carbondaq.