Clive provides the functional lead for NRW on strategic climate change issues, providing expert advice to ensure that risks and impacts are evaluated and managed internally, and advises externally on the implications of climate change for Wales. A key focus is to ensure an evidence-based approach to integrating both mitigation and adaptation into the work of NRW and ensure that climate change is addressed through the sustainable management of natural resources. He has contributed to the production of guidance on adaptation to climate change within the UK, and internationally for the Convention on Biological Diversity. This has particularly focused on the interactions between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Clive has been responsible for a range of environmental monitoring initiatives, including production of The Living Environment of Wales, the first State of Environment report for Wales and managing the production of a meta-database of environmental monitoring datasets for Wales. He previously undertook ecological research, specialising in coastal plant ecology and habitat restoration. He has been a member of the Climate Climate Change Commission for Wales and Director of Outreach for the Climate Change Consortium for Wales.