Isabella Chalmers-Arnold Consultant

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I focus on integrating sustainability thinking into systems, across a range of sectors. I use data insights to translate sustainability into a process with clear actions, which can help transform business as usual.

Isabella Chalmers-Arnold, Consultant

Isabella is an impact-driven consultant specialising in sustainability advisory. She is adept at complex data analysis and synthesising policy to communicate key insights through stakeholder engagement and presentation. She has project management experience and works with local authorities, corporate clients, international NGOs, and research think tanks. Isabella is passionate about utilising systems thinking to create socially transformable and just outcomes. She works across sectors and develops strong relations with a broad range of clients. She offers a creative, joined-up thinking approach to consultancy.

Isabella is gaining experience in sustainability reporting, appraisals and audits. She produces sustainability and energy statements and air quality assessments for the land development sector. She is involved in greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality (AQ) inventory compilation. Isabella supports in calculating projections for policies and measures (PaMs) for land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) and agricultural emissions.

Isabella is developing expertise in climate risk, mitigation and adaptation planning for local authorities. She has undertaken complex GHG compilation to produce baseline inventory assessments for local authorities. She is confident at liaising with stakeholders, facilitating workshops and focus groups. Isabella has developed a keen interest in the waste sector and circular economy, as well as agriculture and the corporate sector.

A highlight for Isabella so far has been liaising with key figures on a film production set, to produce granular data analysis of the emissions savings attributed to sustainability initiatives.

Past and current project experience includes:

Review of Scottish Public Bodies adaptation plans. Isabella synthesised key findings from 150 documents, and presented these to the Scottish Government. She effectively communicated nuances in the costs and benefits adaptation planning landscape.
Undertaking a Sustainability Audit for the Isle of Man TT races. Isabella designed and undertook a bespoke sustainability audit for the Isle of Man TT races, as lead auditor. The audit was designed to assess the TT races against the criteria for both the FIA Environmental Accreditation Scheme and ISO 20121:2024 standards.
Providing Secretariat support for the National Emissions Ceilings Directive (NECD) review, Air Pollutant emissions Initial Checks and general QA/QC report checks to support the efficient running of the inventory review process.

Before joining Aether, Isabella graduated from Durham University with a BA in Geography. During her degree, she specialised in sustainability with her First Class dissertation. She designed a multi-criteria analysis research project that utilised advanced statistical analysis to measure subjectivity and derive groupings of values we attach to our understanding of a sustainable future.

Outside of work, Isabella spends time in nature and goes off on adventures. She is an avid reader, wildlife spotter and climber, and is active in climate advocacy spaces that foreground the youth voice and those with disabilities.

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Skills

  • Sustainability corporate reporting
  • Sustainability audits, appraisals and strategies
  • GHG and AQ Inventory Compilation
  • Air quality assessments
  • GIS, ADMS dispersion modelling
  • Systems thinking
  • Policies and measures (PaMs) and projection modelling
  • Multi-criteria analysis
  • Data analysis, visualisation and report writing
  • Stakeholder engagement and presenting

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