Featured scientist: Prof Guy Midgley

Featured scientist: Prof Guy Midgley

‘Science has been vital for informing a wide range of actions to address climate change drives and impacts. Biophysical scientists uncovered the potentially existential risks of human-caused climate change and ozone depletion. The synthesis and assessment of all their work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in particular has arguably contributed to shifting the global energy and sustainability trajectory very significantly, despite what many in the media would have us believe. In my opinion, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has bought the world a decade or more to transition away from predominant fossil fuel dependence,’ says Prof Guy Midgley.

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