Dr Eoin Devane is the Acting Director responsible for Net Zero at the UK Government's Climate Change Committee. In this role, he leads the CCC’s work advising Government on emissions reduction targets and reporting to Parliament on progress towards achieving these targets. This involves leading the analysis of policy and delivery across 13 sectoral teams and developing overarching assessments and recommendations to Government. Prior to this, he led the CCC’s central Carbon Budgets Team, managing the production of the 2025 advice on the level of the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget as well as multiple other statutory reports. He has worked at the CCC since 2020, before which he worked in operational research roles across central government. He holds a PhD in mathematical analysis from the University of Cambridge.
