Below is a complete list of women who are researchers in the field of climate change.
• - Sharina Abdul Halim:[51] environmental sociologist at the Institute for Environment and Development, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia. His research focuses on islands and indigenous communities, sustainable livelihoods, tourism development and heritage conservation. She is lead author of Chapter 5 on IPCC Special Report 1.5-C and Chapter 10 for IPCC Working Group II AR6.
• - Ibidun Adelekan:[52][53] associate professor in the department of geography, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research focuses on interactions between climate and society, the human dimensions of global environmental change, the vulnerability and resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change. She is lead author of IPCC AR6 and contributing author of IPCC AR5 – Africa chapter.
• - Carolina Adler:[54][55] Executive Director of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Switzerland, where she oversees the work of the MRI Coordination Office, promotes the global change research agenda, and supports regional and thematic collaborations among mountain communities around the world. She is an environmental scientist and geographer by training and has extensive international career experience, both in the public and private sectors. She is lead author of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere and IPCC Working Group II AR6.
• - Paulina Aldunce"):[56][57] associate professor in the department of environmental sciences and natural resources and deputy director of the Center for Disaster Risk Reduction, CITRID at the University of Chile, Chile. Her research interests include the social and institutional dimension of disaster management and climate change, with a focus on adaptation, resilience, transformation and local and community management. She is lead author of three IPCC reports, including the latest IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Elham Ali:[58][59] professor of oceanography at the University of Suez, Egypt, where she is head of the department of aquatic sciences and director of the office of international relations at the University of Suez. His expertise includes aquatic ecology, marine biodiversity, coastal ecology, and water quality assessment and monitoring. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 and coordinating lead author of the Mediterranean cross-cutting chapter.
• - Paola Arias"):[60] associate professor at the Faculty of Environment at the University of Antioquia, Colombia. Her research interests include climate dynamics,[61][62] climate change,[63] climate variability and surface hydrology in Colombia and South America. She is lead author of IPCC AR6 Working Group I.[64][65][66][67].
• - Laura Astigarraga:[68] professor in the department of animal production and pastures at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. His research experience includes climate change, dairy science, range management, agricultural economics and environmental science. She is the author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Zarrin Azar:[69][70] assistant professor of the department of geography, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. She is the director of the Climate Research Institute, ASMEC, Iran and the Eco Regional Center for Natural Disaster Risk Management in Mashhad, Iran. His research interests include regional and mesoscale climate modeling, climate variability and change, extreme climate, dryland climatology, and the Middle East. She is reviewing editor of chapter 2 of IPCC AR6, Working Group I.
• - Karin Bäckstrand:[71] professor of political science at Stockholm University, Sweden, who has written extensively on climate and environmental governance and advises on the ICSU Earth System Governance project.
• - Sallie Baliunas:[72] astrophysicist[73][74][75][76] retired. She previously worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center and was deputy director of Mount Wilson.[75][77].
• - Rondrotiana Barimalala:[78][79] postdoctoral researcher at the department of oceanography at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include climate variability, modeling and change, air-sea interaction and African climate. She is lead author of IPCC AR6: The Physical Basis. Her current projects are the CRISTAL project (Climate Resilient Development for Southeast African Islands), where she serves as principal investigator. He studies “reducing uncertainty in climate models to understand development applications” in central and southern Africa.
• - Birgit Bednar-Friedl:[80][81] associate professor at the department of economics at the University of Graz, Austria. His experience includes environmental economics, natural resource management, climate change impacts, energy economics, biodiversity and conservation. She is the coordinating lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Michele Betsill:[82] professor of political science at Colorado State University in the United States, expert on cities, climate change and transnational forms of climate governance. She is a member of the scientific steering committee of the ICSU Earth System Governance project and was a contributing author to Working Group III of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
• - Suruchi Bhadwal:[83] director of earth sciences and climate change at TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute), India. He leads research on climate change focusing primarily on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessment and works closely with local communities. She was lead author of the IPCC AR2 and review editor of the IPCC AR5 WGII report and the IPCC special report on extreme events. She is also lead author of the IPCC AR6 Working Group II report.
• - Preety Bhandari:[84] director of the climate change and disaster risk management division of the sustainable development and climate change department (SDCC) of the Asian Development Bank, Philippines. She also serves as Head of the climate change and disaster risk management thematic group. Her experience includes providing policy and strategic direction, accessing financing from the Climate Investment Funds and the Green Climate Fund, and supporting international negotiations on climate finance, as well as focusing on the environment, climate change and sustainable development. She is also lead author of the upcoming IPCC AR6 report.
• - Mercy Borbor-Cordova:[85][86] associate professor at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Ecuador. His research focuses on the ocean, human health, and the interaction between climate and health. She is particularly interested in transferring knowledge to decision makers and professionals, especially in the field of climate services for coastal marine resources and human health. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 Working Group III, which focuses on mitigation.
• - Lidia Brito: Professor of Forestry at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique, former Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Mozambique, has worked closely with UNESCO on global change issues and chaired the Planet Under Pressure conference in 2012.
• - Harriet Bulkeley:[87] professor of geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom, expert on cities and climate change, energy and environmental governance.
• - Jane Burston:[88] general director of the Clean Air Fund. Previously she was head of energy and environment at the National Physical Laboratory[89][90] and head of science for climate change[91][92][93] and energy at UK central government.
• - Mercedes Bustamente:[94] ecologist and professor at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She is widely known for her contributions to ecological knowledge of threatened tropical ecosystems and their interactions with human-induced changes. His research laboratory focuses on studying the responses of natural ecosystems to changes in disturbance regimes, land use, biogeochemical cycles, and climate. She is lead author of IPCC AR6 and is an international member of the United States National Academy of Sciences "National Academy of Sciences (United States)").
• - Inés Camilloni:[95] professor at the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an independent researcher at the Center for Marine and Atmospheric Research.[96] Her research focuses on climate variability and change[97][98][99][100] in South America. She was lead author of the IPCC reports[101] AR5-WG1 and SR1.5 and is currently a reviewing editor of IPCC AR6-WG1.
• - Pasha Carruthers:[102][103] advises on environmental sustainability with a focus on sustainable development and global change issues. She was previously Cook Islands National Coordinator at the Cook Islands Red Cross Office. He has extensive experience in international negotiations, project proposal development and participatory approaches through his work with the Cook Islands Government's National Environmental Service and the Pacific Community Secretariat. She is a reviewing editor of the IPCC AR6.
• - Anny Cazenave:[104] deputy director of the French Laboratory for Geophysical Studies and Spatial Oceanography, expert on sea level rise and lead author of the IPCC.
• - Ruth Cerezo-Mota:[105][106] researcher at the coastal engineering and processes laboratory of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. His research interests include climatology, climate change, regional climate models and extreme events. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford in atmospheric, oceanic and planetary physics.
• - Noemí Chacón:[107] researcher at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Venezuela. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Lynette Cheah:[108][109] associate professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. He leads the Sustainable Urban Mobility research group to reduce the environmental impacts of urban passenger and freight transport. His expertise lies in transportation modeling and simulation, life cycle energy and environmental assessment of products and systems, and urban metabolism. She is a reviewing editor of the IPCC AR6.
• - Ying Chen:[110] professor at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and senior researcher at the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies (IUE), CASS, China. She is also deputy director of the CASS Research Center for Sustainable Development. His research interests include international climate governance, energy and climate policy. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Wenying Chen:[111] professor at the Research Institute of Energy, Environment and Economics, Tsinghua University, China. His research focuses on energy systems modeling, energy development and climate change mitigation strategy. He is also researching CCS (carbon capture and storage) to develop an Arc-GIS-based decision support system to map sources and sinks of carbon emissions. She is well known for her work in the area of environmental energy, economic modeling, carbon permitting, and more. She is review editor for IPCC AR5 and AR6.
• - So Min Cheong:[112] associate professor in the department of geography and atmospheric sciences at the University of Kansas, United States. His research focuses on the social consequences of environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change. She is lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and the IPCC special report on the ocean and cryosphere. He has also worked on a series of reports commissioned by the Korean government, UNESCO and WMO on the topic of coastal management, climate change adaptation, boundary issues and disaster management.
• - Julia Cole:[113] professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Michigan, United States. Expert in climate history, variability and corals. She is a Leopold Leadership member (2008), an IPCC collaborator and a Google Science Communication member (2011).
• - Cecilia Conde:[114] professor of atmospheric sciences at UNAM, Mexico, who works on climate impacts in agriculture. She is director of climate adaptation at the Mexican Institute of Ecology and Climate, a collaborator with the IPCC.
• - Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha:[115][116] assistant professor at the faculty of oceanography at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. As a chemical oceanographer, her research focuses on the southwest Atlantic region and she co-leads the Brazilian ocean acidification research network. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 Working Group I.
• - Faye Abigail Cruz:[117][118] head of the laboratory at the Manila Observatory, Philippines. His research focuses on regional climate and climate change, extreme weather events, and land surface-climate interactions. It is also involved in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)-Southeast Asia project of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 Working Group I.
• - Heidi Cullen:[119] director of communications and strategic initiatives and director of the Information and Technology Diffusion Division (ITD) at MBARI and is formally the chief scientist of Climate Central. Climate change communication expert. Previously a climate change expert for the Weather Channel. And scientific advisor to NOAA.
• - Judith Curry:[120] Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written or co-authored more than 140 research articles, primarily in the field of atmospheric science.[121][122][123] She also runs her own climate blog and has testified before the United States House of Representatives.
• - Gretchen Daily: professor of environmental sciences at Stanford University, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. She is a co-founder of the Natural Capital Project.[124][125] She is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences "National Academy of Sciences (United States)") and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[126][127] She is a board member of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics and The Nature Conservancy and was a MacArthur Fellow.
• - Purnamita Dasgupta:[128][129] professor and head of the environmental economics unit at the Institute of Economic Growth, India. His research focuses on the relationship between the environment and economic development. She has authored and consulted on international research assessments, including the IPCC 1.5C Special Report and the International Panel on Social Progress; the IPCC Scientific Steering Group on Economics, Costs and Ethics; Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Ruth DeFries: professor of sustainable development in the department of ecology, evolution and environmental biology at Columbia University. She is an affiliate of the Earth Institute, Columbia University. She is a member of the United States Academy of Sciences[130][131][132] and was a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Defries specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability in the context of deforestation and other human drivers that influence biophysical and regulatory processes. biogeochemicals.[133][134][135][136].
• - Fatima Denton:[137] Director of the United Nations University, Institute of Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), Ghana. His expertise lies in natural resource management, policy research and development and the African region. Previously, he worked with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Canada-based International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the United Nations Environment Programme. She is lead author of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land, and coordinating lead author of IPCC AR6 Working Group III.
• - Claudine Dereczynski:[138] professor at the Geosciences Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research experience includes numerical weather prediction, regional climate modeling, climate variability, atmospheric science and climate change. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Sandra Díaz:[139] professor of community ecology and ecosystems at the National University of Córdoba and principal researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina. Studies the interactions of plants with drivers of global change and their effects on ecosystem properties. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002 and is a foreign associate member of the United States National Academy of Sciences "National Academy of Sciences (United States)"). Participated in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the IPCC. She is a member of the scientific committee of the international biodiversity science program DIVERSITAS, and founder and director of the international DiverSus Nucleus initiative on Diversity and Sustainability. It integrates several scientific entities.[140][141][142] He appears on the list of the most influential scientists in the world, according to Thomson Reuters.[143][144][145].
• - Aïda Diongue-Niang:[146][147] advisor to the National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Senegal. He has over 20 years of experience engaging with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels and has expertise in numerical weather prediction, atmospheric physics, climate, monsoon and extreme events. She is the lead author of Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Riyanti Djalante:[148][149] Deputy Director/Head of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Division, ASEAN Secretariat, Indonesia. She is also a visiting professor at the United Nations University - Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. His research focuses on sustainable development, governance, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. She is currently a member of the Earth System Governance Network and is lead author of IPCC AR6.
• - Fatima Driouech:[150][151] associate professor and executive coordinator of the metrics and adaptation techniques group at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco. His research interests include climate variability, regional climate modeling and climate science. Previously, she was head of the Meteorological Research Center of Moroccan Meteorology and the National Climate Center. She was also vice-chair of IPCC Working Group I and lead author of the fifth IPCC report. For the recent IPCC AR6, she serves as review editor. She currently acts as coordinator of MedECC, the independent network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change.
• - Opha Pauline Dube:[152] professor of environmental sciences, University of Botswana. Dube has experience in sustainable development, inclusive community environmental management and climate change adaptation. She is a contributing author to the IPCC.[153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160].
• - Carolina Dubeux:[161][162] social scientist and senior researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on environmental analysis, climate change, sustainability and ecological economics. Her work related to climate change mitigation and socioeconomic development, especially with Brazilian cities, is recognized as pioneering. She was lead author of IPCC AR5 and reviewing editor of IPCC AR6.
• - Kris Ebi:[163] professor of global health, University of Washington. Expert on the impacts of climate change on health and lead coordinating author of the IPCC.
• - Tamsin Edwards: British climatologist, professor at King's College London and science communicator.[164][165][166][167][168][169][170].
• - Eunice Newton Foote: carried out the first studies on the heating of air containing carbon dioxide,[171][172][173][174] presented in 1856 at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• - Sha Fu:[175] assistant professor at the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, National Development and Reform Commission, China. He has experience in GHG emissions inventories and trends, GHG policies, emissions reduction strategies, including financial, technological aspects and capacity development. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Inez Fung: professor of atmospheric sciences, University of California, Berkeley. It studies the interactions between climate change and biogeochemical cycles and models climate co-evolution with atmospheric CO2. He contributed to the IPCC and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She has been a fellow at NASA, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society.
• - Laura Gallardo:[176][177] Professor of the Department of Geophysics (DGF) of the University of Chile and former director of the Center of Excellence for Climate and Resilience Research, Chile. His research interests include atmospheric modeling and data assimilation, air quality in megacities, and aerosol-cloud-climate interactions. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Jacquelyn Gill:[178] paleoecologist researching climate change[179][180][181][182][183] and extinction in the ice age fossil record and assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine.
• - Genevieve Guenther:[184] Affiliated with the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, she researches climate change communication. She is an expert reviewer for working group III of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Joyeeta Gupta:[185] professor of environment and development in the global south at the Amsterdam Social Sciences Research Institute of the University of Amsterdam and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. He is a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute. She is a lead author for the IPCC and the author of several books on global climate governance.
• - Heide Hackmann:[186] executive director of the International Council for Science and former executive director of the International Social Science Council (ISSC). He is a specialist in science policy studies, science governance and research evaluation.
• - Joanna Haigh:[187] named BBC Womans Hour Top 30 Power List of 2020, retired professor of atmospheric physics at Imperial College London and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, former head of the physics department at Imperial College London, and former president, now vice-president, of the Royal Meteorological Society. She is an expert in solar variability and climate modeling.[188][189][190][191][192].
• - Sandy Harrison:[193] professor of global paleoclimates and biogeochemical cycles at the University of Reading.
• - Katharine Hayhoe:[194] professor at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the climate science center. She is well known for her efforts to communicate faith-based, especially Christian, concern about climate change and authored the US national climate assessment.
• - Ann Henderson-Sellers: Emeritus Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography and Founding Director of the Climate Impacts Center at Macquarie University, Sydney. Former Director of the World Climate Research Program and the Environment Division of ANTSO. She was lead author of the IPCC SAR call. She is an elected member of the Australian Academy of Technological and Engineering Sciences. His research involves an intentional redevelopment of traditional climate science to communicate directly in the language of economics, policy, and regulation.
• - Ellie Highwood:[195] professor of climate physics in the department of meteorology at the University of Reading and dean of diversity and inclusion at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on atmospheric aerosols, climate change, science communication, diversity and inclusion.
• - Kathryn Hochstetler:[196] professor of international development at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the role of emerging powers in global climate policy, with a special focus on renewable electricity in Brazil and South Africa.
• - Marika Holland:[197] Senior Scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and, until recently, Senior Scientist for the Community Earth System Model. His research is on the role of sea ice in the climate system. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Lesley Hughes:[198] Distinguished Professor of Biology, former Federal Climate Commissioner and lead author of the 4th and 5th IPCC Assessment Reports and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Integrity and Development) at Macquarie University. His research has focused primarily on the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems.
• - Antonina Ivanova Boncheva:[199][200] professor in the economics department of the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur, Mexico. His experience and interests include renewable energy, sustainable tourism, sustainable development, climate change policy, development economics and development planning. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Katharine Jacobs:[201] director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Sciences and Solutions (CCASS), Environment Institute, University of Arizona. Builds and supports climate change adaptation and assessment capacity at regional, national and international scales. Jacobs is a tenured professor of soil, water and environmental sciences at the University of Arizona. From 2009 to 2013, Jacobs served as director of the United States National Climate Assessment and deputy director, Energy and Environment Division, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
• - Jill Jager (Williams):[202] independent academic, former executive director of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) (1999 to 2002) and senior researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria (2004 to 2008). It studies research topics ranging from energy and climate, biodiversity, global responsibility, public and stakeholder engagement, policy integration to the links between knowledge and action for sustainable development.
• - Hui Ju:[203][204] trained at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. His research includes the study of wheat quality, drought characteristics and the impacts of climate change on evapotranspiration in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in China. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Suzana Kahn Ribeiro:[205] professor at COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Researches renewable energies, climate change, urban mitigation alternatives and sustainable mobility. She is coordinator of the UFRJ Green Fund and president of the scientific committee of the Brazilian Climate Change Panel. She served as Vice-Chair of Working Group III for the IPCC AR5 report and currently serves as coordinating lead author for IPCC AR6.
• - Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo: director of the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity of the University of Chile in Santiago and winner of the Chilean National Prize for Natural Sciences in 2010. Her research interests focus on the conservation of biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems and temperate forests in South America. She is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences "National Academy of Sciences (United States)"), a member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• - Astrid Kiendler-Scharr:[206] director of the Energy and Climate Research Institute IEK-8: Troposphäre, Germany. His research interests include organic aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, aerosol-climate interactions, and exchange and feedback between the atmosphere and the biosphere. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Şiir Kilkis:[207][208] associate professor of energy systems engineering at METU, Turkey and senior researcher and advisor to the president of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. His research includes the development of the SDEWES Index, new net zero district concepts, and the rational exergy management model to curb carbon dioxide emissions. She is also lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Nana Ama Browne Klutse:[209] senior lecturer in the physics department of the University of Ghana. His research focuses on understanding climate dynamics and variability from observations, primarily of West Africa and the African monsoon. Previously, she worked at the Ghana Institute of Space Science and Technology of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission as a Senior Research Scientist. She currently serves as lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Sari Kovats:[210] associate professor in the department of social and environmental research at the school of public health and policy. She is Knowledge Mobilization Lead for the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit on Environmental Change and Health, led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in partnership with Public Health England (PHE). Researches the effects of weather and climate on human health, including assessments of the health impact of climate change and epidemiological studies of the effects of climate, weather, and meteorological phenomena on urban and rural populations. She was the coordinating lead author of Chapter 23 on Europe for the IPCC 5th Assessment Report.
• - Svitlana Krakovska:[211] head of the laboratory of applied climatology at the Hydrometeorological Institute of Ukraine and senior scientist at the National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine. His expertise includes numerical modeling, atmospheric physics, climate change, climate variability and meteorology. She is reviewing editor of IPCC Special Report 1.5 C and lead author of IPCC AR6.
• - Won-Tae Kwon:[212] managing director of the APEC Climate Center and scientific advisor to the Korea National Meteorological Research Institute. His research interests include climate variability, precipitation, time series analysis, climate change, and statistical modeling. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Alice Larkin:[213] professor of climate science and energy policy. Director of the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester, UK[214] and member of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research.[215] Trained as a physicist, Professor Larkin's research now focuses on reducing emissions from the energy system, with a particular interest in the aviation and shipping sectors.
• - Corinne Le Quéré:[216] professor of climate change science at the University of East Angelia and former director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, whose research has made important contributions to carbon science and has contributed to the annual carbon assessment. ICSU Global Carbon project budgets. She is chair of the French High Council on Climate and is also a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change.
• - June-yi Lee:[217][218][219] assistant professor at the IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, Korea. His research interests include paleomonsoon variability, Earth system predictability including biogeochemical cycling with physical variables, and short-term climate predictability and projection. She is the coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Margaret Leinen:[220] director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Expert in paleoclimate, climate impacts on the ocean, climate engineering. She also serves as UC San Diego's vice provost for marine sciences and dean of the faculty of marine sciences. She formally served as vice provost for Marine and Environmental Initiatives and executive director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, a unit of Florida Atlantic University.
• - Maria Fernanda Lemos:[221] professor of urban planning and design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses mainly on the adaptation of cities to climate change, urban resilience and sustainability, and social housing. She is lead author of Urban Areas in Coastal Zones, ARC3-2, and UCCRN-LA and a member of UCCRN (Urban Climate Change Research Network). She is also the coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6, Central and South America chapter.
• - María Carmen Lemos:[222] professor of natural resources and environment at the University of Michigan and her broad research interest includes climate adaptation and the role of knowledge in creating adaptive capacity. She was lead author of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report and the 4th US National Climate Assessment.
• - Debora Ley:[223] economic affairs officer for energy and natural resources of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile. She is lead author of the IPCC Special Report 1.5 C and the IPCC AR6 report. She is an experienced specialist in renewable energy and climate change who has worked in different sectors and at different scales from the grassroots to the regional level in the field of clean energy and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
• - Hong Liao:[224][225] Professor at the University of Information Science and Technology in Nanjing, China. His research focuses on global and regional modeling of air pollutants and their effects on climate change. She is a member of the World Climate Research Program and lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Diana Liverman:[226] professor of geography and development and former co-director of the Environment Institute at the University of Arizona, United States and expert on the human dimensions of climate change.[227][228] She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Emma Liwenga:[229][230] senior lecturer at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research focuses on agriculture, food and livelihood security, natural resource management and climate change adaptation. She authored the IPCC Special Report on Land and Climate Change and currently serves as coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Jane Lubchenco:[231] professor of environmental sciences[232][233][234] and marine ecology at Oregon State University. Former NOAA Administrator and Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (2009-2013). His research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-being, biodiversity, climate change and the sustainable use of the oceans and planet. Nominated by President Obama in December 2008 as part of his "Science Dream Team."
• - Amanda Lynch: professor of environmental studies at Brown University and director of the Brown Institute on Environment and Society. She is an expert in polar climate modeling, indigenous environmental knowledge, and climate policy analysis. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
• - Graciela Magrin:[235][236] investigadora del Instituto de Clima y Agua del Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) de Argentina. Participó en el IPCC y se desempeñó como revisora de material de capacitación sobre evaluación de vulnerabilidad y adaptación relacionada con el cambio climático en el sector agrícola en la secretaría de la CMNUCC en Alemania. He specializes in climate change, plant ecophysiology and agrometeorology.
• - Jennifer Marohasy:[237] Australian biologist, columnist and blogger. She was a senior fellow at the free market think tank, Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs between 2004 and 2009 and director of the Australian Environment Foundation until 2008.
• - Paulina Martinetto:[238][239] researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council "National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina)"), Buenos Aires, Argentina. His research focuses on the ecology of coastal marine ecosystems, climate change, and answering fundamental questions related to the carbon budget in coastal and shelf ecosystems of the southwest Atlantic. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Kate Marvel:[240] climate scientist[241][242][243] and science writer based in New York City. She is an associate research scientist[244][245][246] at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia's department of engineering physics and applied mathematics. She writes regularly in her "Hot Planet" column for Scientific American.
• - Catherine Masao:[247][248] professor at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research interests include conservation biology, ecology, biodiversity management and impact assessments. Currently, she contributes as lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Valérie Masson-Delmotte:[249] prominent French climate scientist[250][251][252] and research director of the climate and environmental sciences laboratory of the French Commission for Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CEA).
• - Ritu Mathur:[253] director of integrated assessment and modeling at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India. She is also an associate professor in the department of energy and environment at the TERI School of Advanced Studies. For the last two decades, he has been working in the field of sustainable development, energy security, mitigation and climate change. He has experience in IPCC assessments and has contributed to other national and global scientific assessments. Currently, she serves as lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Pamela Matson:[254] professor of environmental studies and former dean of earth sciences at Stanford University, United States; scholar of land use and sustainability science and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences "National Academy of Sciences (United States)").
• - Shannon McNeeley:[255] senior researcher at the Pacific Institute and formerly a research scientist at Colorado State University's North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. She focuses on water and climate environmental justice for frontline communities and incorporates a natural and social sciences approach into her research. She authored the third and fourth US National Climate Assessments and currently serves on the steering committee of the upcoming fifth National Adaptation Forum.
• - Linda Mearns: Senior scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) working on regional climate models and climate impacts. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Liliana Raquel Miranda Sara:[256][257] founder and executive director of the Cities for Life Forum, Peru. She is an architect, environmental urban planner, researcher and activist. His research focuses on issues of climate change, cities, water, sustainable construction and justice. She is an Ashoka Fellow and has designed and implemented pilot projects to promote sustainable construction. Currently, she serves as lead author of Chapter 6 on Cities for the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Mariana Moncassim Vale:[258][259] associate professor of the ecology department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He works in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, the Amazon and mainly focuses on systematic conservation planning, ecosystem services, climate change, roadless areas and GIS to prioritize the conservation of species and areas. She is also lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Linda Mortsch:[260] Principal Investigator, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada. Adjunct in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Researches the impact of climate change on water resources and wetlands in Canada, the development of climate change scenarios, and the “effective” communication of climate change information. She is a contributing author to the IPCC.
• - Suzanne Moser:[261] consultant and researcher from Santa Cruz, California, United States, who works on the impacts of climate change in coastal regions and on the communication of climate information.
• - Aditi Mukherji:[262][263] Senior Researcher at the International Water Management Institute, India. His expertise lies in climate change adaptation, groundwater institutions and policies, community water resource management, political ecology, and the water-energy-food nexus. Before IWMI, she was thematic leader for water and air at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Currently, she serves as the coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Maria Silvia Muylaert De Araujo:[264][265] trained at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on land use change and renewable energy. She has been assistant to the secretary of the environment of the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro since 2007. She has contributed to the work of the IPCC as lead author of the IPCC AR5 and currently serves as lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Michelle Mycoo:[266] Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She is the coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6 chapter on small islands and has served as lead technical expert for several international, regional and local agencies in the field of urban planning, sustainable land, climate change and more. His research focuses on strengthening the alignment/interface of science, policy and practice for optimal land use, infrastructure provision and environmental management.
• - Soojeong Meong:[267][268] senior researcher at the Korea Environmental Institute, Korea. She is review editor of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Sarah Myhre:[269] climate and ocean scientist with expertise in the physical, biological and chemical consequences of abrupt climate warming. With a PhD from the University of California at Davis, and has worked as a research associate at the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington. She is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.[270].
• - Sasha Naidoo:[271] researcher at the Scientific and Industrial Research Council of South Africa. His expertise lies in forests, wood anatomy, forestry, wood science, climate change and environmental science. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Sunita Narain:[272][273] CEO of the Center for Science and Environment based in India and director of the Society for Environmental Communications and editor of the bimonthly magazine Down To Earth. She is an influential environmental activist[274][275][276][277] with interests in democracy at different scales, climate change, and natural resource management.
• - Gemma Terersa Narisma: Executive Director of the Manila Observatory, Philippines and Head of the Regional Climate Systems Program from 2017 to 2021. She was also an Associate Professor of the Physics Department at Ateneo de Manila University. She served as coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6 Working Group I.
• - Grace Ngaruiya:[278] head of the ecology and conservation biology section and professor of the plant sciences department at Kenyatta University, Kenya. She is also lead author of the IPCC AR6. His research focuses on the relationship between climate change and African heritage.
• - Isabelle Niang:[279] professor at the Chiekh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Expert in coastal erosion and climate change and main coordinating author of the chapters on "Afrique du Groupe de travail II" for the IPCC, in the fourth and fifth reports. Since 2008, he coordinates the regional project ACCC (Adaptation au Changements Climatiques et Côtiers en Afrique de l'Ouest) and is based in BREDA/UNESCO. She is also the Chairperson of the Pan African Regional Committee for START (PACOM) through the Pan African START Secretariat (PASS) based at the Institute for Resource Assessment (IRA), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• - Andrea J. Nightingale:[280] professor of geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Expert in climate change adaptation and mitigation policies, gender and intersectionality in relation to climate change and climate knowledge policies.
• - Intan Nurhati:[281][282] senior scientist at the oceanography research center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia. His research focuses include Indo-Pacific climate variability, marine pollution and ocean acidification, and coral calcification in changing oceans. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Karen O'Brien:[283] professor of geography at the University of Oslo, Norway, who works on the human dimensions of global environmental change and social transformation. She is an author of the IPCC, ICSU committees.
• - Chioma Daisy Onyige-Ebeniro:[284][285] member of the Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Bonn, Germany. She was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her expertise lies in criminology, gender and crime, and environmental issues. She is lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Naomi Oreskes:[286] world-renowned geologist and historian and Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change.[287][288][289]
• - Elinor Ostrom: professor of political science at Indiana University, United States. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics and worked on common property resource management and sustainability.
• - Bette Otto-Bliesner:[290] Senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, and serves as head of NCAR's Paleoclimate Modeling Program. She is an expert in using computer models of the Earth's climate system to investigate past climate change and climate variability over a wide range of time scales. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Jean Palutikof:[291] founding director of the National Center for Climate Change Adaptation Research (NCCARF) at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on the application of climate data to economic and planning issues, especially extreme events and their impacts. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Swapna Panickal:[292][293] scientist at the center for climate change research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India. His research focuses on next-generation Earth system models to better predict the impact of climate change on the Indian monsoon. She is also lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Jyoti Parikh: Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development IRADe. She is an expert in energy and environmental problems in developing countries. She served as an energy consultant for the World Bank, the US Department of Energy, EEC, Brussels and UN institutions such as UNIDO, FAO, UNU, UNESCO, and as an environmental consultant for UNDP. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Joyce E. Penner:[294] professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Michigan. Studies cloud-aerosol interactions and cloud microphysics, climate and climate change, chemistry, and global tropospheric budgets and modeling. She is the coordinating lead author of the IPCC.
• - Joy Jacqueline Pereira:[295] vice president of working group II of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. She is a professor and senior researcher at the Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative of the Institute for Environment and Development at University Kebangsaan Malaysia (SEADPRI-UKM), and a member of the Malaysian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mineral resource management for sustainable development, with a focus on linking science with policy. She previously served as coordinating lead author of Asia Chapter 24 of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, lead author of the IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report, and review editor of the 2012 IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.
• - Rosa Pérez:[296][297] senior researcher at the Manila Observatory and climate scientist specialized in hydrometeorology, disaster risk reduction and adaptation policies on climate change. She is lead author of Chapter 18 of Working Group II of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report. She served as reviewer and lead author on previous IPCC assessment reports. At the Philippine Climate Change Commission, he is a member of the National Technical Expert Panel.
• - Patricia Fernanda Pinho:[298][299] guest professor/researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses on the analysis of ecosystem services, human well-being, governance and climate change through a socioecological lens. She is lead author of IPCC AR6 Working Group II and IPCC Special Report 1.5C. He has extensive experience in integrated analysis of impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation to extreme events related to global environmental change.
• - Vicky Pope: Head of the Hadley Centre's climate prediction programme, which provides independent scientific advice on climate change. His research interests include the development and validation of climate models.
• - Joana Portugal Pereira:[300][301] Lead scientist of the IPCC Working Group III on Climate Change Mitigation and holds a Visiting Researcher position at the Center for Environmental Policy, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. His research focuses on energy system innovations that mitigate local and global environmental impacts and his expertise includes energy scenario modeling, bioenergy, life cycle assessment, and environmental modeling. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 Report.
• - Laura Ramajo Gallardo:[302][303] researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones, Chile. His research interests include ocean observation, biological oceanography, biogeochemistry, climate change, ocean acidification, extreme events, fisheries and aquaculture, and coastal communities. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6.
• - Maureen Raymo:[304] paleoclimatologist and marine geologist[305][306][307][308]. Acting Director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She is the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and director of the Lamont-Doherty Central Repository. She is known for the Uplift-Weathering hypothesis.
• - Katherine Richardson Christensen:[309] professor of biological oceanography at the center for sustainability sciences at the University of Copenhagen. She was a lead organizer of the scientific conference, "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions," at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference. She studies the carbon cycle in the upper ocean and how biological processes impact food webs. It also investigates planetary boundaries.
• - Maisa Rojas:[310][311] associate professor of the department of geophysics, University of Chile, Chile. Sus intereses de investigación incluyen el estudio paleoclima de la evolución y la dinámica del sistema climático en el hemisferio sur durante los últimos 25.000 años, la modelización climática regional y los impactos del cambio climático en diferentes sectores de la sociedad. Contribuyó al trabajo del IPCC durante el 5.º Informe de Evaluación como autora principal y actualmente se desempeña como autora principal coordinadora del informe IPCC AR6.
• - Patricia Romero Lankao:[312] Senior research scientist at NREL's Integrated Mobility Science Center in joint appointment with the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago. Previously she worked as Scientist II in the Research Applications Laboratory and the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR UCAR), former deputy director of the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment, NCAR, and former professor at the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico City. Studies the intersection between energy and water systems, mobility and the built environment in cities.
• - Terry Root:[313] is a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University who works on ecosystems and climate change, especially birds. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Cynthia Rosenzweig: researcher at the Goddard Institute for Spatial Studies (GISS) in New York who works on climate impacts[314][315][316] on agriculture and cities. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Joyashree Roy:[317] professor of economics, Jadavpur University in India, expert in the economics of climate change and author of the IPCC, recipient of the Prince Sultan Bin Aziz Prize.
• - Madilte Rusticucci:[318][319] Professor of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an expert on climate change and has been part of the IPCC Assessment Report - Working Group I since 2007. Currently, she is lead author of the IPCC AR6 - Physical Science Report.
• - Nahla Samargandi:[320][321] associate professor of economics and finance at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. As an applied economist, she researches areas of economic growth, financial development, tourism, labor economics, environment and energy, and macroeconomic policy crises. She is also lead author of the investment and finance chapter of the upcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Working Group III.
• - Lisa Schipper:[322] research fellow in environmental social sciences at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. With a PhD in developmental studies, he analyzes the links between adaptation and development. She is the coordinating lead author of Chapter 18 "Climate Resilient Development Pathways" in WG2 of the IPCC AR6 and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Climate and Development.[323].
• - Mary Scholes:[324] professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who has served on several international global change committees. Studies plant physiology and biology, especially nutrient cycling, sustainable agroforestry, and soil biology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.
• - Miranda Schreurs:[325] professor of environmental and climate policy, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, specialized in comparative climate and environmental governance. He has written about climate policy-making in multiple regions of the world, including Canada, China, the European Union, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
• - Sybil P. Seitzinger:[326] professor of nutrient biogeochemistry at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University and executive director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. His research group at Rutgers focuses on the sources and transport of nutrients (N, C, P) in watersheds and airsheds and their effect on aquatic ecosystems.
• - Sonia I. Seneviratne:[327] Swiss climate scientist, professor at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at ETH Zurich. He is a specialist in extreme climatic events[328][329][330].
• - María Isabel Serrano Diná:[331][332] environmental and sustainability consultant at Eco By Serrano and professor of architecture and environment at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic. His expertise lies in passive architecture, ecological design, environment, organic agriculture, recycling, sustainability, urban resilience, regenerative landscaping and climate change. She is also review editor of the construction chapter of the IPCC AR6 Working Group III.
• - Karen Seto: professor of geography and urban sciences at Yale University. She is a geographer, urban scientist and territorial change scientist. His research focuses on human transformation of the earth and the links between urbanization, global change and sustainability. She was co-founder and co-chair of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) Project of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) from 2004 to 2016. She was coordinating lead author of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and co-leader of the urban mitigation chapter. She is the coordinating lead author of the urban mitigation chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences "National Academy of Sciences (United States)").
• - Joanne Simpson: (1923 - 2010) first woman to receive a doctorate in meteorology. He graduated from the University of Chicago[333][334][335] and taught and researched at numerous universities. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Simpson contributed to many areas of atmospheric sciences and helped develop the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).
• - Chandni Singh:[336][337] Senior Research Consultant at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), India. His research focuses on climate change adaptation, differential vulnerability and well-being, disaster risk, and rural-urban migration. She was a contributing author of the IPCC 1.5 C special report and is currently lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Julia Slingo:[338] meteorologist, climatologist, visiting professor at the University of Reading and chief scientist at the British Met Office between 2009 and 2016. Her specific interests include tropical climate variability and its influence on global climate and climate modelling.[339][340][341] Slingo was the first woman to be a professor of meteorology in the United Kingdom and, in 2008, the first woman to be president of the Royal Meteorological Society.
• - Amy Snover:[342] director of the climate impacts group at the University of Washington, director of the University of the Northwest Climate Science Center, and vice dean of applied research at the school of the environment at the University of Washington. Snover is a recognized leader for her work connecting decision-makers and stakeholders with the scientific data, tools and guidance needed to manage climate risks facing people, communities and ecosystems in the northwest United States. Amy was the 2015 White House Champion of Change for Climate Education and Literacy, and lead author of the groundbreaking 2007 guidebook, Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments.
• - Susan Solomon:[343] professor of atmospheric chemistry and climate science, known for her work on atmospheric chemistry and ozone and for leading the IPCC's fourth assessment report on climate science. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. It won the Volvo Environment and Blue Planet awards.
• - Anna Amelia Sörensson:[344] researcher at the Center for Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (CIMA/CONICET-UBA), Argentina. His research interests include climate change, climate modeling and variability, hydrology and precipitation. In the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC, she serves as the main coordinating author of working group I - chapter 10: Linking global and regional climate change.
• - Tannecia Stephenson:[345][346] senior professor of physics at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His research focuses on climate variability and seasonal prediction, climate extremes, climate change impacts, and solar energy. She is the lead author of the IPCC AR6 report - Working Group I.
• - Nicole Stevens:[347] ecologist and Trapnell Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. It is also affiliated with the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her work examines the impact of global change on non-forest ecosystems in Africa and seeks to understand the mechanisms that shape plant distribution ranges. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Leah Stokes: professor in the political science department at UC Santa Barbara. Senior Policy Consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America. He hosts the climate podcast A Matter of Degrees. His research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, and energy and environmental policy[348][349][350][351] in the United States.
• - Linda Yanti Sulistiawati:[352] principal investigator of APCEL and also associate professor of law at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. His research focuses on climate change, REDD+, land issues and customary issues (adat). She was a member of the Indonesian delegation to the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Currently, she serves as lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Ying Sun:[353] works at the National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Xianchun Tan:[354][355] professor at the Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. She is lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Adelle Thomas:[356][357] is a Senior Fellow at the University of the Bahamas, Bahamas. She is a human environmental geographer, focused on climate change adaptation and loss and damage. At Climate Analytics, she is the expert on vulnerability, adaptation and gender, in addition to her position as senior research associate for the Caribbean. She is lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II and also served as lead author of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C.
• - LuAnne Thompson:[358] professor of oceanography at the University of Washington known for her work communicating climate science and making connections between climate change and environmental sustainability, health, and socioeconomic inequalities.
• - Sirintornthep Towprayoon:[359][360] Associate Professor at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, King Mongkut University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand. His research interests include greenhouse gas inventories, municipal solid waste management, biogas from waste, methane emissions, and low-carbon scenarios. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 Report.
• - Diána Ürge-Vorsatz:[361] director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) and professor of environmental sciences and policies, Central European University. She specializes in environmental and energy studies, especially in energy efficiency and buildings. She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Kripa Vasant:[362] trained at the central marine fisheries research institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India. She is lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
• - Isabella Velicogna:[363] professor of Earth system sciences at the University of California Irvine, known for her work on time-varying space gravity to study the mass balance of ice sheets and changes in terrestrial water storage. She is an author of the IPCC. Winner of the EGU Vening Meinesz medal and is a Kavli member of the NAS.
• - Carolina Vera:[364] Argentine meteorologist and scientist.[365][366][367] Director of the Center for Research on the Sea and the Atmosphere (CIMA) and the UMI/IFAECI, a joint institute of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the National Science Council of Argentina (CONICET) and the CNRS (France). She is also a full professor at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She is the author of the IPCC special report on extremes.
• - María Virginia Vilariño:[368][369] climate and energy manager of the Argentine Business Council for Sustainable Development, Argentina. His experience includes sustainability, climate change and sustainable management tools for different economic sectors. He leads the circular economy initiative in Argentina, in cooperation with GIZ to identify circular models and practices in different economic sectors and evaluate the contribution of the circular economy to climate objectives in Argentina. She is lead author of the IPCC 5th Assessment WG3 report on climate mitigation and lead author of the IPCC Special Report 1.5C (SR1.5). She is also lead author of the IPCC Report AR6.
• - Coleen Vogel:[370] independent consultant and formerly professor of sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She chaired the international scientific committee of the International Human Dimensions Program on Climate Change and is an author of the IPCC. His research has focused on climate vulnerability and southern Africa.
• - Penny Whetton (1958-2019): climatologist and expert in regional projections of climate change,[371][372][373][374] global warming and its impacts. Her main scientific focus was Australia.[375] She is an author of the IPCC.
• - Kathy Willis: ecologist, director of science at Kew Gardens, UK, and professor at the University of Oxford working on ecology, environmental history and biodiversity.
• - Julie Winkler:[376] Professor at Michigan State University and former president of the Association of American Geographers, her work focuses on climate and its impacts, especially in the Great Lakes and the Midwest of the United States.
• - Libo Wu:[377][378] managing director of the Center for Energy Strategy and Economics Studies and associate professor at the Faculty of Economics at Fudan University, China. His research interests include natural resource economics, economic modeling and climate change. She serves as lead author of the IPCC AR6 Report.
• - Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim:[379][380] Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Management, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. His research focuses on watershed pollution estimation, estuarine and coastal processes to physical oceanography. She is the coordinating lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Sumaya A. Zakieldeen:[381][382] assistant professor at the institute of environmental studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan. He researches the impacts of climate change and was part of the Sudanese delegation at the COP. She is also lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Hua Zhang:[383] professor at the National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, China. His research interests include greenhouse gas effects, aerosol-cloud-radiation interaction, radiative forcing, model simulation, and integration study. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Yan Zheng:[384] trained at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. His research interests include climate change, urban vulnerability, adaptation and risk governance. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Kirsten Zickfeld:[385] associate professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada, working on the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions on climate over centennial to millennial time scales.
• - Gina Ziervogel:[386] associate professor in the department of environmental and geographic sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include climate change adaptation and resilience across scales, multi-level governance of urban adaptation, and social justice. She is lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Zinta Zommers:[387][388] Director of Mercy Corp of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance and Rhodes and Commonwealth Scholar from Latvia. His work experience includes supporting the United Nations Secretary-General's support team during the Paris Negotiation with the United Nations Environment and Food and Agriculture organization, advising the United States government and the government of Sierra Leone, and co-editing a book on early warning systems for climate change. She is a reviewing editor of the IPCC AR6.
• - Zhiyan Zuo:[389] professor in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Fudan University, China. She was previously a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. His research focuses on land-atmosphere interaction, climate change, extreme events and the Asian monsoon. She currently serves as lead author of the IPCC AR6 report.
• - Adenike Oladosu is a Nigerian climate activist and initiator of the school climate strike in Nigeria. In 2019, she was selected for the first UN Youth climate summit in New York. Recognized by UNICEF Nigeria as a young changemaker, she leads a grassroots movement called ILeadClimate, advocating for the restoration of Lake Chad and youth engagement in climate justice through education.
• - Hannah Fluck is a senior national archaeologist at the National Trust, UK, and former director of environmental strategy at Historic England.[390] She is a member of the steering committee of the Climate Heritage Network (CHN) and vice-president of Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at CHN.[391].