November 28, 2023
MEDIA ADVISORY: Stanford experts on climate change attending COP28
Not for publication or broadcast.
Stanford’s delegates to the 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28) are available to comment before travel and during their time in the UAE. For a schedule of their official speaking engagements visit our COP28 website.
For on-site assistance in connecting with these COP28 attendees in Dubai, contact:
Nov. 30 – Dec. 3:
Bianca Santos, bsantos9@stanford.edu or phone/WhatsApp +1 (908) 448-6601
Dec. 4 – Dec. 8:
Anela Arifi, anelaa@stanford.edu or phone/WhatsApp +1 (650) 441-5865
Prior to Nov. 30, email sustainability_media@stanford.edu for assistance. Click on the names below for more background.
Bill Barnett | In UAE Dec. 4 – Dec. 5
Barnett is an organizational behavior expert who studies if – and how – organizations can build their resilience in the face of global climate change, and how companies can adapt to resulting environmental impacts. He is chair of the Social Science Division of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS), and the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy and Organizations at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). Barnett is also director of the Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability, a joint effort of the GSB and the SDSS. In that role, he is creating working groups in different biospheres around the world, including in Israel, Chile, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Europe.
Contact: william.barnett@stanford.edu, (650) 723-1421
Expertise: Organizational adaptation, with particular focus on: the proliferation of climate tech startups, issues around environmental justice, the challenge of climate migration, and the urgent need to preserve the world’s rainforests.
Chris Field | In UAE Dec. 5 – Dec. 9
Field’s research emphasizes field and laboratory studies of impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. From 2008 to 2015, Field was co-chair of Working Group II of the IPCC. He is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; founding director of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology; the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Contact: cfield@stanford.edu, (650) 736-4352
Expertise: Climate change, including impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Global perspective crossing regions and sectors. Special expertise on ecosystems and agriculture.
Jim Leape | In UAE Nov. 30 – Dec. 3
A 30-year veteran of conservation work on every continent, Leape is the former director of WWF International and leader of the global WWF Network, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations. Leape is the co-director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the William and Eva Price Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: jleape@stanford.edu, (650) 498-0916
Expertise: Climate change, conservation, and natural resource management; Chinese environmental policy, forest protection, marine conservation, water resources management, and sustainability in global commodity markets.
Arun Majumdar | In UAE Dec. 1 – Dec. 3
Majumdar is the inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is a former division director for environmental energy technologies at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), acting under secretary of energy, vice president for energy at Google, and co-director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Contact: amajumdar@stanford.edu, (650) 725-4016
Expertise: As founding director of the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program, he can discuss the role of clean-energy technologies in shaping U.S. and global climate and energy policy, as well as the role the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is playing in creating global connections and partnerships to address sustainability challenges.
Michelle Tigchelaar | In UAE Dec. 8 – Dec. 10
Tigchelaar is an interdisciplinary scientist whose work focuses on the impacts of climate change on food systems, spanning the aquatic and terrestrial and the ecological and human. Her active research involves developing tools for assessing blue-green climate risk and identifying climate impacts and adaptations for food worker health. Tigchelaar is currently a research scientist with the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions where she coordinates the Blue Food Assessment, a coalition of international researchers working to produce an integrative assessment of the role of aquatic foods (food from marine and freshwater systems) in transformations towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems.
Contact: mtigch@stanford.edu, (808) 724-1392
Expertise: Sustainable food systems, oceans.
Additional Stanford experts on climate change
(Available on Pacific Time)
For assistance in locating these faculty members, contact
Carbon Accounting
Rob Jackson
Jackson studies the effects of climate change and droughts on forest mortality and grassland ecosystems. He chairs the Global Carbon Project, which compiles data on fossil fuel emissions and deforestation, and previously chaired the Department of Energy’s National Institute for Climate Change Research in the southeastern U.S. His recent work has focused on what window of time is left to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. Jackson is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Contact: rob.jackson@stanford.edu, (650) 497-5841
Expertise: Climate change, drought, land use, full life-cycle carbon accounting, effects of climate and drought on forest mortality, fracking and drinking water quality, and urban natural gas leaks.
Alicia Seiger
Seiger is a lecturer at Stanford Law School and leads sustainability and energy finance initiatives at Stanford Law, Graduate School of Business, and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. She has served as an advisor to the Governors of California and New York, the New York State Comptroller, and numerous pension fund, endowment, and family office CIOs on the topics of climate risk, opportunity, and resiliency. Her first book, Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero, considers the rise of carbon accounting in the context of the last three decades of global climate action, examines the rough edges of Net Zero in practice, and makes recommendations for the road ahead.
Contact: aseiger@stanford.edu, (415) 215-0716
Expertise: Carbon accounting, climate risk and disclosure, climate finance, carbon credits, carbon markets, blended finance, ESG, innovation, climate policy, venture capital, and climate philanthropy.
Freshwater and Drought
Noah Diffenbaugh
Diffenbaugh studies the climate system, including the processes by which climate change could increase extreme weather events such as drought and impact agriculture, water resources, and human health. He has served as a lead author for Working Group II of the IPCC and has provided testimony and scientific expertise to the White House, the Governor of California, and U.S. congressional offices. Diffenbaugh is the Kara J Foundation Professor of Earth System Science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: diffenbaugh@stanford.edu, (650) 223-9425
Expertise: The climate system, including the processes by which climate change could impact agriculture, water resources, extreme weather events, and human health.
Conservation
Jim Leape
A 30-year veteran of conservation work on every continent, Leape is the former director of WWF International and leader of the global WWF Network, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations. Leape is the co-director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the William and Eva Price Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: jleape@stanford.edu, (650) 498-0916
Expertise: Climate change, conservation, and natural resource management; Chinese environmental policy, forest protection, marine conservation, water resources management, and sustainability in global commodity markets.
Economics
Charles Kolstad
Kolstad is an internationally known environmental economist with a focus on environmental economics, climate change, and energy. He has been a convening lead author for the IPCC (economics and ethics). His research interests are in information, uncertainty, and regulation, with much of his applied work in the area of climate change and energy markets. He is a professor, by courtesy, of economics; a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy; a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; and a senior fellow emeritus at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Contact: ckolstad@stanford.edu, (805) 699-6899
Expertise: Economics of greenhouse-gas mitigation, adaptation, and regulation, risk and uncertainty, international agreements, and decarbonization policies.
Marshall Burke
Burke’s research focuses on social and economic impacts of climate change. He has recently published on the past and future global economic impacts of climate change, and on the relationship between high temperatures and human conflict, including armed violence and civil wars. Ongoing work estimates the magnitude of loss and damage estimates potentially owed by large emitters. Burke is the deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment; an associate professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: mburke@stanford.edu, (650) 721-2203
Expertise: Food security, climate change, economic development.
Energy
Mark Z. Jacobson
Jacobson’s research focuses on understanding air pollution and global warming and developing large-scale clean, renewable energy solutions. He has developed and applied three-dimensional atmosphere-biosphere-ocean computer models to simulate air pollution, weather, climate, and renewable energy. He has also developed roadmaps to transition countries, states, cities, and towns to 100% clean, renewable energy and computer models to examine grid stability in the presence of high penetrations of renewable energy. His work forms the scientific basis for the energy portion of the U.S. Green New Deal. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering in Stanford’s School of Engineering; director of Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy program; a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy; and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: Jacobson@stanford.edu, (650) 723-6836
Expertise: Renewable energy, atmospheric science.
Environmental Law
Michael Wara
Wara’s research focuses on climate policy and regulation, both domestically and internationally. His current scholarship addresses the performance of the emerging global market for greenhouse gases and mechanisms for reducing emissions, especially in developing countries after the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol. Wara is the director of the Climate and Energy Research Program and senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; a research fellow at the Program in Energy and Sustainable Development in Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and a research fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance.
Contact: michael.wara@stanford.edu
Expertise: Environmental and energy law and policy.
Food Security
David Lobell
Lobell was a lead author for Chapter 7, Food Production Systems and Food Security, of the report issued in March 2014 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II. His research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to climate change. He is the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment; a professor of Earth system science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Contact: dlobell@stanford.edu, (650) 721-6207
Expertise: Food security, crop yields, and climate change.
IPCC Processes, Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Michael Mastrandrea
Mastrandrea is an interdisciplinary scientist whose work focuses on climate risks and resilience and the design and implementation of energy and climate policy. He helped lead development of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and has also served as an author for the Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessment and as an associate editor for California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment. He is the research director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. He also serves as chief advisor for energy and climate research at the California Energy Commission.
Contact: mikemas@stanford.edu, (650) 224-2070
Expertise: Climate change risks and resilience, climate and energy policy implementation, scientific assessment.
Jenny Suckale
Suckale focuses on understanding disaster risk and resilience by exploring the processes that govern extreme events in different natural systems and working with private and public partners to increase community resilience using a scientific co-production approach. She leads the Stanford Future Bay Initiative, a partnership committed to co-production of actionable intelligence to shape a more equitable, resilient, and sustainable urban future for Bay Area communities. Her group’s research priorities span natural climate hazards, such as ice-sheet instability and permafrost disintegration, and hazards that arise from the interaction between natural processes and human interventions, such as flooding in urban areas and induced earthquakes. Suckale is an assistant professor of geophysics at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; an assistant professor, by courtesy, of civil and environmental engineering; and a center fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: jsuckale@stanford.edu, (650) 497-6456
Expertise: Climate hazards, community impacts and resilience, physical processes of extreme events.
Oceans
Stephen Palumbi
Palumbi is an internationally recognized expert on climate change impacts on marine life. His current work focuses on how coral reefs can adapt to climate change and the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philippines, Bahamas, and U.S. West Coast. Palumbi is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor of Marine Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and an affiliate of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: spalumbi@stanford.edu, (831) 655-6210
Expertise: Climate change and ocean acidification.
Psychology and Human Behavior
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Wong-Parodi is a psychologist who applies social, behavioral, and decision science approaches to understand how people react and are affected by global environmental change in order to develop interventions to improve adaptive capacity and resiliency. Her recent work has focused on the impacts of natural hazards and extreme events on individuals and communities coping with hurricanes and floods. Wong-Parodi is an assistant professor of Earth system science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a center fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: gwongpar@stanford.edu, (650) 725-6457
Expertise: Natural disaster psychological and behavioral impacts, climate risk and adaptation
Sea level rise, Ice Sheets, and Glaciers
Dustin Schroeder
Schroeder’s research focuses on the subsurface processes and conditions that govern the stability of continental ice sheets, such as Antarctica, and their contribution to the rate of sea level rise. Schroeder uses airborne ice-penetrating radar to measure the thickness of ice sheets, bed conditions underneath glaciers, and ice melt from underneath the glacial surface. Schroeder is an associate professor of geophysics at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Contact: Dustin.M.Schroeder@stanford.edu, (650) 725-7861
Expertise: Sea level rise, ice sheets, Antarctica, Greenland, glaciers.
Additional Stanford climate experts can be found at
https://news.stanford.edu/expertise/climate-change/
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