Getting real: on the technology and behaviour change of unavoidable emissions reduction
Channel: Scientists for Global Responsibility
Date: 20/10/2022

Kevin Anderson holds a joint chair between the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester and the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at Uppsala University. He recently completed two years as the Zennström professor of climate change leadership at Uppsala and previously held the role of director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Kevin publishes on his specialist areas in journals ranging from Science, to Nature and Nature Geosciences.

Kevin engages widely across all tiers of government (EU, UK and Sweden) on issues ranging from shale gas, aviation and shipping, through to the role of climate modeling (IAMs), carbon budgets and ‘negative emission technologies’. With Uppsala colleagues, Kevin has made a key contribution to the development Paris-compliant carbon budgets for Swedish Län and Kommuner, and with Manchester colleagues, his analysis contributed to the framing of the UK’s Climate Change Act and the development of national carbon budgets.  Kevin has a decade’s industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry. He is a chartered engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.