#7 Dr. Joeri Rogelj: IPCC Lead Author, climate advisor of the UN Secretary General and one of the leading climate scientists in the world

Dr. Joeri Rogelj is a lecturer at the Imperial College London,
currently IPCC Lead Author and an expert regarding the concept of
‘carbon budgets’ — a straightforward concept to make the
complexity of climate change easily understandable for everybody.
In this interview, you will learn about the latest news in
climate science, effects of the Corona pandemic, reasons for
grave concerns as well as for hope, and you will gain valuable
insights into the necessary steps to solve the climate crisis. In
the end, Joeri shares an inspirational sentence and the ‘single
most effective thing everybody could do to combat climate
change’. Hence, it will be worth listening through...


Thematic sections of the interview:
4:30 — Joeri’s different jobs and activities as a climate
scientist
6:38 — The beginning of Joeri’s profession: experiencing climate
change during a hiking trip in Africa
9:05 — His main motivation for working in climate science
10:30 — Biggest misconceptions and obstacles in understanding
climate change
12:20 — Lecturing about climate change, how to explain the
facts
15:20 — News in climate science since the 2013 IPCC report
AR5
19:17 — Effects of the Corona pandemic
25:00 — Our chances in achieving the goals of the Paris
Agreement
30:11 — Moments of despair, people feel ‘Eco-Anxiety’
33:00 — The concept of ‘carbon budgets’, explained by the global
expert
35:25 — The risk of abrupt tipping points in the climate
system
38:56 — Likelihood of cascading tipping points and ‘run-away
climate change’
42:30 — Our current carbon budget: How much time is left to
act?
44:16 — Joeri’s solution to the climate crisis
45:51 — His single most effective advice to combat climate
change
46:40 — A final note from Joeri for humankind


Further information about Dr. Joeri Rogelj:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.rogelj


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