Contributors

  • Greta Thunberg / Activist in Fridays for Future and has spoken at climate rallies across the globe, as well as at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the US Congress, and the United Nations.
  • Peter Brannen / Science journalist, contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of The Ends of the World.
  • Beth Shapiro / Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California Santa Cruz and author of Life as We Made It.
  • Elizabeth Kolbert / Staff writer for the New Yorker and the author, most recently, of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.
  • Michael Oppenheimer / Atmospheric scientist, Princeton University’s Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and long-time IPCC author.
  • Naomi Oreskes / Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.
  • Johan Rockström / Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at Potsdam University.
  • Katharine Hayhoe / Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University and author of Saving Us.
  • Zeke Hausfather / Climate research lead at Stripe, research scientist at Berkeley Earth.
  • Bjørn H. Samset / Senior researcher at CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, an IPCC lead author, and expert on the effects of non-CO2 emissions.
  • Paulo Ceppi / Lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute and the Department of Physics at Imperial College London.
  • Jennifer Francis / Senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and formerly Research Professor in Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University.
  • Friederike Otto / Senior lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London and co-lead of World Weather Attribution.
  • Kate Marvel / Climate scientist at the Columbia University Center for Climate Systems research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
  • Ricarda Winkelmann / Professor of Climate System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Potsdam.
  • Stefan Rahmstorf / Head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute and Professor of Physics of the Oceans at the University of Potsdam.
  • Hans-Otto Pörtner / Climatologist, physiologist, Professor and Head of the Department of Integrative Ecophysiology at the Alfred Wegener Institute.
  • Karin Kvale / Senior researcher at GNS Science and expert in modelling the role of marine ecology in global biogeochemical cycles.
  • Peter H. Gleick / Co-founder and president-emeritus of the Pacific Institute, member US National Academy of Sciences, hydroclimatologist.
  • Joëlle Gergis / Senior lecturer in Climate Science at the Australian National University and lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
  • Carlos Nobre / Earth System scientist on The Amazon, Chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon and the convener of the Amazonia 4.0 project.
  • Julia Arieira / Plant Ecologist and Earth system scientist at Brazil’s Federal University of Espírito Santo.
  • Nathália Nascimento / Geographer and Earth system scientist at Brazil’s Federal University of Espírito Santo.
  • Beverly Law / Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science at Oregon State University.
  • Andy Purvis / Biodiversity researcher at the Natural History Museum in London; leda chapter of the first IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services.
  • Adriana De Palma / World Economic Forum Young Scientist and senior researcher at the Natural History Museum in London.
  • Dave Goulson / Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex; author of over 400 scientific articles on insect ecology and, among other books, Silent Earth.
  • Keith W. Larson / Ecologist researching environmental change in the Arctic and Director of the Arctic Centre at Umeå University.
  • Jennifer L. Soong / Soil carbon scientist at Corteva; affiliate scientist at Colorado State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
  • Örjan Gustafsson / Professor in Biogeochemistry at Stockholm University, and elected Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • Tamsin Edwards / Climate scientist at King’s College London, an IPCC lead author and science communicator specializing in uncertainties in sea-level rise.
  • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus / Director-general of the World Health Organization.
  • Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera / Environmental epidemiologist, leader of the Climate Change and Health research group at the University of Bern.
  • Drew Shindell / Climate scientist and Distinguished Professor at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, author on multiple IPCC Assessments.
  • Felipe J. Colón-González / Assistant Professor at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • John Brownstein / Chief innovation officer, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
  • Derek MacFadden / Clinician scientist at the Ottawa Hospital; Junior Clinical Research Chair in Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
  • Sarah McGough / Infectious disease epidemiologist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
  • Mauricio Santillana / Professor of Physics, Northeastern University, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
  • Samuel S. Myers / Principal research scientist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Director, Planetary Health Alliance.
  • Saleemul Huq / Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh. 
  • Jacqueline Patterson / Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black front-line climate justice leadership.
  • Abrahm Lustgarten / Investigative reporter for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine; author of a forthcoming book about climate-driven migration in the US.
  • Michael Taylor / Caribbean climate scientist, IPCC lead author, professor and dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of the West Indies, Mona.
  • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim / Indigenous woman, geographer and coordinator of the Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad; UN Sustainable Development Goals advocate.
  • Elin Anna Labba / Sámi journalist and writer working with indigenous literatures at Tjállegoahte in Jokkmokk, Sweden.
  • Sonia Guajajara / Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist and politician, and coordinator of the Association of Indigenous People of Brazil.
  • Solomon Hsiang / Scientist and economist, Professor and Director of the Global Policy Laboratory at UC Berkeley; co-founder of the Climate Impact Lab.
  • Taikan Oki / Global hydrologist, former Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University, and an IPCC Coordinating Lead Author. 
  • Marshall Burke / Associate Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University and co-founder of Atlas AI.
  • Eugene Linden / Journalist and author; his most recent book on climate change is Fire and Flood. Previously, The Winds of Change won a Grantham Award.
  • Kevin Anderson / Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen.
  • Alexandra Urisman Otto / Climate reporter at the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and co-author of Gretas resa (Greta’s Journey).
  • Bill McKibben / Founder of the environmental organizations 350.org and Third Act and author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature and Eaarth.  
  • Glen Peters / Research Director at the Centre for International Climate Research in Oslo; member of the executive team of the Global Carbon Budget; an IPCC lead author.
  • Karl-Heinz Erb / An IPCC lead author, Director of the Institute of Social Ecology and associate Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
  • Simone Gingrich / Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
  • Niclas Hällström / Director of WhatNext?, President of the ETC Group, and senior affiliate at Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University.
  • Jennie C. Stephens / Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern University, and author of Diversifying Power.
  • Isak Stoddard / PhD candidate in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.
  • Rob Jackson / Earth scientist at Stanford University and Chair of the Global Carbon Project.
  • Alexander Popp / Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and leader of a research group on land-use management.
  • Michael Clark / Environmental scientist at the University of Oxford, focusing on food systems’ contribution to climate, biodiversity and well-being.
  • Sonja Vermeulen / Director of Programs at CGIAR, and Associate at Chatham House.
  • John Barrett / Professor in Energy and Climate Policy, University of Leeds, government advisor to DEFRA and an IPCC lead author.
  • Alice Garvey / Researcher at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds.
  • Ketan Joshi / Freelance writer, analyst and communications consultant, who has previously worked for a variety of Australian and European climate organizations.
  • Alice Larkin / Vice-Dean and Head of School of Engineering and a Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy at the Tyndell Centre, University of Manchester.
  • Jillian Anable / Co-director of the University of Oxford’s CREDS Centre for Research in energy demand solutions.
  • Christian Brand / Co-director of UK Energy Research Centre and Associate Professor at University of Oxford. Author of Personal Travel and Climate Change.
  • Annie Lowrey / Staff writer at the Atlantic, covering economic policy, and author of Give People Money.
  • Mike Berners-Lee / Professor at Lancaster University’s Environment Centre, Director of Small World Consulting Ltd and author of There is No Planet B.
  • Silpa Kaza / Senior urban development specialist in the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice.
  • Nina Schrank / Senior campaigner for the Plastics Team at Greenpeace UK.
  • Nicholas Stern / Professor of Economics and Government; Chair of the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Sunita Narain / Director-general of the Centre for Science and Environment, a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organization based in New Delhi.
  • Jason Hickel / Economic anthropologist, author and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
  • Amitav Ghosh / Author of sixteen works of fiction and non-fiction; the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award.
  • Stuart Capstick / An environmental social scientist based at Cardiff University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations.
  • Lorraine Whitmarsh / Professor of Environmental Psychology, University of Bath; Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations.
  • Kate Raworth / Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab and Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.
  • Per Espen Stoknes / A psychologist, TEDGlobal speaker and Co-director of the Centre for Sustainability at the Norwegian Business School.
  • Gidon Eshel / Professor of environmental physics at Bard College, New York.
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson / Marine biologist, co-founder of the policy think tank Urban Ocean Lab, co-editor of All We Can Save, and co-creator of How to Save a Planet.
  • George Monbiot / Writer, film-maker and environmental activist; author of a weekly column for the Guardian as well as various books and videos.
  • Rebecca Wrigley / Founder and Chief Executive of Rewilding Britain and has worked in conservation and community development for thirty years.
  • Margaret Atwood / Booker Prize-winning author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays.
  • Erica Chenoweth / Political scientist, Professor at Harvard University.
  • Michael E. Mann / Atmospheric Science at Penn State, IPCC contributor, and author of many books, including The New Climate War.
  • Seth Klein / Team lead with the Climate Emergency Unit and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.
  • David Wallace-Wells / New York Times Opinion writer and magazine columnist. Author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.
  • Naomi Klein / Journalist and bestselling author; UBC Professor of Climate Justice and Co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia.
  • Nicki Becker / Law student and climate justice activist from Argentina. Co-founder of Jovenes por el Clima; active in Fridays For Future MAPA. 
  • Disha A. Ravi / Indian climate and environmental justice activist and writer.
  • Hilda Flavia Nakabuye / Climate and environmental rights activist who founded Uganda’s Fridays For Future movement.
  • Laura Verónica Muñoz / Ecofeminist from the Colombian Andean mountains involved in Fridays For Future, Pacto X el Clima and Unite for Climate Action.
  • Ina Maria Shikongo / Mother, climate justice activist and poet active in the Fridays For Future International movement.
  • Ayisha Siddiqa / Pakistani-American storyteller, climate justice advocate and Co-founder of Polluters Out and Fossil Free University.
  • Mitzi Jonelle Tan / Full-time climate justice activist based in the Philippines involved with Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines and Fridays For Future.
  • Wanjira Mathai / Kenyan environmentalist and activist, and Vice-President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute.
  • Lucas Chancel / Co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po.
  • Thomas Piketty / Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics, Co-director of the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database.
  • Olúfémi O. Táíwò / Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, and author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture.
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer / SUNY Distinguished Teacher of Environmental Biology, founder and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
  • Ed Hawkins / Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading.