Yes. I think you need specific expertise to answer questions on the environment. You're right that you need policy expertise to provide policy advice, but identifying the policy need can be done by the same people who do the verification, for example, and then your advisory board that has just been put in place can be put to work to help identify and help shape the choices and the policy to be put in place.
I don't see that there is a contradiction here. I do see, though, that keeping things at status quo does not give the specific expertise you need to tackle environmental problems. It gives general expertise on how to write a policy, which is not enough to have policies that work until 2050.