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'''Mike Berners-Lee''' is an English researcher and writer on [[carbon footprint]]ing. He is primarily a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at [[Lancaster University]]<ref name="isf">{{cite web |title=Our people |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-futures/our-people/ |website=Institute for Social Futures |publisher=Lancaster University |accessdate=1 January 2019}}</ref> and founder, <ref>{{cite web |title=How Bad Are Bananas:The Carbon Footprint of Everything |url=https://howbadarebananas.com/ |website=How Bad Are Bananas:The Carbon Footprint of Everything |publisher=WordPress |accessdate=6 March 2021}}</ref> director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the [[Lancaster Environment Centre]] at the university.<ref name="swc">{{cite web |title=People |url=http://www.sw-consulting.co.uk/people/ |publisher=Small World Consulting |accessdate=1 January 2019}}</ref> His book publications are ''How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything'',<ref name="pw">{{cite news |title=How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55365-831-3 |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref><ref name="csm">{{cite news |last1=Couch |first1=Aaron |title=How Bad are Bananas (review) |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/0613/How-Bad-Are-Bananas-The-Carbon-Footprint-of-Everything |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=Christian Science Monitor |date=13 June 2011}}</ref> ''The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit?''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Forbes|first=Peter|date=31 May 2013|title=The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/31/burning-question-berners-lee-review|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-08|website=}}</ref> and ''There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years''. He is considered an expert on [[carbon footprint]]s.<ref name="bbc-mag">{{cite news |title=A bad reputation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8726794.stm |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=BBC News: Magazine |date=8 June 2010}}</ref> He is the son of [[Mary Lee Woods]] and [[Conway Berners-Lee]]; one of his brothers is computer scientist Sir [[Tim Berners-Lee]], <ref name="tring">{{cite news |title=Author – and brother of world wide web inventor – to talk about threat of carbon emissions |url=https://www.berkhamstedtoday.co.uk/news/author-and-brother-of-world-wide-web-inventor-to-talk-about-threat-of-carbon-emissions-1-6306829 |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=Berkhamsted and Tring Gazette |date=21 September 2014}}</ref> who invented [[www]] a networking application at [[CERN]], subsequently made generally accessable to the public by [[search engines]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=(CERN)|first=European Organization for Nuclear Research|date=|title=The Birth of the Web|url=https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-March-06|website=https://home.cern}}</ref>
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[[File:Mike Berners-Lee.jpg|alt=A man smiling, in a blue cotton shirt with a bookcase behind him.|thumb|Mike Berners-Lee (2023)]]
'''Mike Berners-Lee''' is an English researcher and writer on [[carbon footprint]]ing. He is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at [[Lancaster University]]<ref name="isf">{{cite web |title=Our people |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/mike-berners-lee |accessdate=4 April 2024 |website=Lancaster Environment Centre |publisher=Lancaster University}}</ref> and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the university.<ref name="swc">{{cite web |title=The Team |url=https://www.sw-consulting.co.uk/the-team |publisher=Small World Consulting |accessdate=21 March 2024}}</ref> His books include ''[[How Bad Are Bananas?|How Bad are Bananas?]]'',<ref name="pw">{{cite news |title=How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55365-831-3 |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref><ref name="csm">{{cite news |last1=Couch |first1=Aaron |title=How Bad are Bananas (review) |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/0613/How-Bad-Are-Bananas-The-Carbon-Footprint-of-Everything |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=Christian Science Monitor |date=13 June 2011}}</ref> ''The Burning Question''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Forbes|first=Peter|date=31 May 2013|title=The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark – review|newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/31/burning-question-berners-lee-review|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-08|website=}}</ref> and ''There Is No Planet B''<ref>{{Cite web |title=There Is No Planet B, by Mike Berners-Lee |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c0a77b28-3c2c-11e9-b856-5404d3811663 |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.ft.com}}</ref> and he is a contributing author to ''[[The Climate Book]]'' created by [[Greta Thunberg]]. He is considered an expert on [[carbon footprint]]s.<ref name="bbc-mag">{{cite news |title=A bad reputation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8726794.stm |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=BBC News: Magazine |date=8 June 2010}}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
He graduated in Physics from [[University of Oxford]] in 1986, gained a [[Postgraduate Certificate in Education|PGCE]] in Physics and Outdoor Education at [[Bangor University]] in 1988, and has a Masters in Organisation Development and Consulting from [[Sheffield Hallam University]] (2001).<ref name="linkedin">{{cite web |title=Mike Berners-Lee |url=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikebernerslee |publisher=LinkedIn |accessdate=25 January 2019}}</ref>
He was born in 1964 and is the son of [[Mary Lee Woods]] and [[Conway Berners-Lee]] who were both mathematicians and computer scientists. One of his brothers is computer scientist Sir [[Tim Berners-Lee]]<ref name="tring">{{cite news |date=21 September 2014 |title=Author – and brother of world wide web inventor – to talk about threat of carbon emissions |url=https://www.berkhamstedtoday.co.uk/news/author-and-brother-of-world-wide-web-inventor-to-talk-about-threat-of-carbon-emissions-1-6306829 |accessdate=1 January 2019 |work=Berkhamsted and Tring Gazette}}</ref> who invented the [[World Wide Web]].
==Small World Consulting==
The core interests and concerns of the consultancy are climatic change and ecological situations, with the goal of effecting change in global activities with regards to especially carbon load on the environment (to increase awareness and responsibility of choice for control of [[carbon emissions]]), land-use and human diet, and organisations (macro) and individuals personal lifestyle (micro) choices, with special regards to the [[Anthropocene]]. <ref>{{cite web |title=Small World Consulting|url=https://sw-consulting.co.uk/ |website=sw-consulting.co.uk|publisher=GeneratePress |accessdate=6 March 2021}}</ref>


He graduated in physics from [[University of Oxford]] in 1986, gained a [[Postgraduate Certificate in Education|PGCE]] in Physics and Outdoor Education at [[Bangor University]] in 1988, and has a master's in Organisation Development and Consulting from [[Sheffield Hallam University]] (2001).<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Berners-Lee |url=https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/mike-berners-lee/ |access-date=15 June 2022 |website= |publisher=Chartwell Speakers}}</ref> He has been a Professor in Practice at Lancaster University since 2016.


== Carbon accounting ==
==Selected publications==
Berners-Lee has pioneered carbon accounting of upstream carbon emissions from supply chains, known as scope 3 emissions, to assess the full greenhouse gas emissions of products. His work at Small World Consulting has combined Process-based [[Life-cycle assessment|Life Cycle Analysis]] with [[Environmentally extended input–output analysis|Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis]] to achieve both a system-complete estimate of the supply chain and specificity in key areas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kennelly |first1=C. |last2=Berners-Lee |first2=M. |last3=Hewitt |first3=C.N. |date=2019 |title=Hybrid life-cycle assessment for robust, best-practice carbon accounting |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959652618329640 |journal=Journal of Cleaner Production |language=en |volume=208 |pages=35–43 |doi=10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.231}}</ref> He is also a leading researcher in assessing the full climate impacts of current and emerging ICT.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Freitag |first1=Charlotte |last2=Berners-Lee |first2=Mike |last3=Widdicks |first3=Kelly |last4=Knowles |first4=Bran |last5=Blair |first5=Gordon S. |last6=Friday |first6=Adrian |date=2021 |title=The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations |journal=Patterns |language=en |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=100340 |doi=10.1016/j.patter.2021.100340 |pmc=8441580 |pmid=34553177}}</ref>
===Articles===
Taken from:
*www.research.lancs.ac.uk
*www.theguardian.com
*www.independent.co.uk
====2021====
*[https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/opinion/mike-berners-lee-climate-change-media-b1796983.html We are still not taking the climate crisis seriously – and the media must take responsibility], www.independent.co.uk, February 9
====2020====
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-climate-impact-of-ict(acd7a6b5-fe94-4beb-989a-4c39c0f925bb).html The climate impact of ICT: A review of estimates, trends and regulations]
**Freitag, C., Berners-Lee, M., Widdicks, K., Knowles, B., Blair, G. & Friday, A., 1/12/2020
====2019====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/25/dont-know-how-to-save-planet-this-is-what-you-can-do Don't know how to save the planet? This is what you can do] March, [[guardian.com|www.theguardian.com]]
====2018====
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/hybrid-lifecycle-assessment-for-robust-bestpractice-carbon-accounting(939f411f-d82c-46bf-a618-b3d05e23d80d).html Hybrid life-cycle assessment for robust, best-practice carbon accounting]
**Cara Kennelly, Mike Berners-Lee, C N Hewitt 20/01/2019 [[Journal of Cleaner Production]] 208 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.231
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/current-global-food-production-is-sufficient-to-meet-human-nutritional-needs-in-2050-provided-there-is-radical-societal-adaptation(76f68e5f-e882-4c7e-9e0d-54faaf91b6a3).html Current global food production is sufficient to meet human nutritional needs in 2050 provided there is radical societal adaptation]
**Berners-Lee, M., Kennelly, C., Watson, R. & Hewitt, C. N., 18/07/2018, in: [[Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene]]. 6, 1


== Climate impact of food and land-use ==
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-food-waste-disposal-options-for-uk-retailers(fccfbac4-72fc-4c8e-9dd8-75b29aa3876a).html Greenhouse gas emissions of food waste disposal options for UK retailers]
His research has also examined the climate emissions from food and land-use, concluding that global food production can meet humanity's nutritional needs but only with a radical shift in dietary choices, so that less land is used for the relatively inefficient production of animal products with high greenhouse gas emissions, and more land is used to produce plant-based foods direct for human consumption.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=M. |last2=Hoolohan |first2=C. |last3=Cammack |first3=H. |last4=Hewitt |first4=C.N. |date=2012 |title=The relative greenhouse gas impacts of realistic dietary choices |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301421511010603 |journal=Energy Policy |language=en |volume=43 |pages=184–190 |doi=10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.054|bibcode=2012EnPol..43..184B }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=M. |last2=Kennelly |first2=C. |last3=Watson |first3=R. |last4=Hewitt |first4=C. N. |date=2018 |editor-last=Kapuscinski |editor-first=Anne R. |editor2-last=Locke |editor2-first=Kim A. |editor3-last=Peters |editor3-first=Christian J. |title=Current global food production is sufficient to meet human nutritional needs in 2050 provided there is radical societal adaptation |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/doi/10.1525/elementa.310/112838/Current-global-food-production-is-sufficient-to |journal=Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |language=en |volume=6 |page=52 |doi=10.1525/elementa.310 |bibcode=2018EleSA...6...52B |issn=2325-1026|doi-access=free }}</ref>
**Moult, J. A., Allan, S. R., Hewitt, C. N. & Berners-Lee, M., 05/2018, In: [[Food Policy (journal)|Food Policy]]. 77
====2016====
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-distributional-and-nutritional-impacts-and-mitigation-potential-of-emissionbased-food-taxes-in-the-uk(990d2bf9-1d1e-407b-8efc-7c3488e601fa).html The distributional and nutritional impacts and mitigation potential of emission-based food taxes in the UK]
**Kehlbacher, A., Tiffin, R., Briggs, A., Berners-Lee, M. & Scarborough, P., 07/2016, in: [[Climatic Change (journal)|Climatic Change]]. 137, 1
====2015====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/16/cheap-potatoes-pricey-asparagus-what-would-a-carbon-tax-mean-for-you Cheap potatoes, pricey asparagus: what would a carbon tax mean for you?], October, [[guardian.com|www.theguardian.com]]
====2013====
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/mitigating-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-embodied-in-food-through-realistic-consumer-choices(08f1db61-39d8-463f-bbcb-1b7ac2fa29e2).html Mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions embodied in food through realistic consumer choices]
**Hoolohan, C., Berners-Lee, M., McKinstry-West, J. & Hewitt, C. N., 1/12/2013, in: [[Energy Policy (journal)|Energy Policy]]. 63


==Selected publications==
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/mitigating-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-food-through-realistic-consumer-choices(5132b43e-b12c-4948-a286-fdfe9829c2d8).html Mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions of food through realistic consumer choices]
*{{cite book|editor-last=Thunberg | editor-first= Greta |date=2022 | editor-link= Greta Thunberg | title=The Climate Book|isbn=978-0-241-54747-2|last=Berners-Lee | first=Mike | chapter= How [Not] to Buy}}
**Hoolohan, C., Berners-Lee, M., McKinstry-West, J. & Hewitt, C. N., 12/2013, in: Energy Policy. 63
*{{cite book |last=Berners-Lee |first=Mike |title=[[How Bad Are Bananas?|How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything]] |date=2010 |isbn=9781846688911 |publisher=Profile}}
====2012====
**Second edition: {{cite book |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=Mike |title=How bad are bananas? : the carbon footprint of everything |date=2020 |publisher=Profile Books |location=London |isbn=9781788163811 |edition=New}}
*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-relative-greenhouse-gas-impacts-of-realistic-dietary-choices(7f25471b-23f4-4bac-ad5d-2aea719752e7).html The relative greenhouse gas impacts of realistic dietary choices]
**"Updated North American" edition: {{cite book |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=Mike |title=The carbon footprint of everything |date=2022 |publisher=Greystone Books |location=Vancouver |isbn=9781771645768 <!-- |edition=Updated North American -->}}
**Berners-Lee, M., Hoolohan, C., Cammack, H. & Hewitt, C. N., 2012, in: [[Energy Policy (journal)|Energy Policy]]. 43
**Berners-Lee, Mike (2024) ''Peut-On Encore Manger des Bananes?'' [How bad are bananas?] (in French) Translated by Bertrand Guillot (1 ed) France. ISBN 9789998772403
====2011====

*[https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/greenhouse-gas-footprinting-for-small-businesses(9b3d7073-e433-4b5e-982f-59a19a2b2d11).html Greenhouse gas footprinting for small businesses: The use of input-output data]
*{{cite book |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=Mike |last2=Clark |first2=Duncan |title=The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit? |date=2013 |isbn=9781781250457 |publisher=Profile}}
**Berners-Lee, M., Howard, D. C., Moss, J., Kaivanto, K. & Scott, W. A., 1/02/2011, in: [[Science of the Total Environment]]. 409, 5
===Blogs @ www.theguardian.com===
www.theguardian.com is https://www.theguardian.com, the online site of [[the Guardian newspaper]]
====2010====
=====November=====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/nov/25/carbon-footprint-load-laundry What's the carbon footprint of … a load of laundry?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/nov/12/carbon-footprint-spending-pound What's the carbon footprint of ... spending a pound?], with Duncan Clark
=====October=====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/21/carbon-footprint-email What's the carbon footprint of ... email?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/14/carbon-footprint-house What's the carbon footprint of ... building a house]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/07/carbon-footprint-volcano What's the carbon footprint of ... a volcano?], with Duncan Clark
=====September=====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/sep/23/carbon-footprint-new-car What's the carbon footprint of ... a new car?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/sep/16/carbon-footprint-mortgage What's the carbon footprint of ... a mortgage?], with Duncan Clark
=====August=====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/aug/19/carbon-footprints-dishwasher-washing-up What's the carbon footprint of ... doing the dishes?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/12/carbon-footprint-internet What's the carbon footprint of … the internet?], Duncan Clark and Mike Berners-Lee
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/aug/05/carbon-footprint-drying-hands What's the carbon footprint of … drying your hands?]
=====July=====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jul/08/carbon-footprint-iraq-war What's the carbon footprint of … the Iraq war?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jul/01/carbon-footprint-banana What's the carbon footprint of … a banana?], with Duncan Clark
=====June=====
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/24/carbon-footprint-bushfire What's the carbon footprint of … a bushfire?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/17/carbon-footprint-of-tea-coffee What's the carbon footprint of ... a cup of tea or coffee?], with Duncan Clark
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/10/carbon-footprint-world-cup What's the carbon footprint of ... the World Cup?]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/09/carbon-footprint-mobile-phone What's the carbon footprint of ... using a mobile phone?]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/08/carbon-footprint-cycling What's the carbon footprint of ... cycling a mile?]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/03/carbon-footprint-healthcare What's the carbon footprint of ... a heart bypass operation?]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/jun/04/carbon-footprint-definition What is a carbon footprint?], with Duncan Clark
===Books===
*{{cite book| last=Berners-Lee | first=Mike| title=How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything| date=2010 | isbn= 9781846688911| publisher= Profile}}
*{{cite book| last1=Berners-Lee | first1=Mike| last2=Clark | first2=Duncan| title= The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit? |date= 2013| isbn=9781781250457 | publisher=Profile }}
*{{cite book| last=Berners-Lee | first=Mike| title= There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years|date= 2019| isbn= 9781108545969| publisher=Cambridge UP}}
*{{cite book| last=Berners-Lee | first=Mike| title= There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years|date= 2019| isbn= 9781108545969| publisher=Cambridge UP}}

===Video recording===
== Media appearances ==
====2010====

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XQWkA_eeDk Berners-Lee discusses his book: How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything.] [https://www.thersa.org/video/events/2010/05/the-carbon-footprint-of-everything 13th May] (duration: 31 minutes 12 seconds), Vision, [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvhsiQGy_zcNCiSbeXEjhLg RSA] channel of the [[Royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce]], Youtube 20th of May
* Climate Change - The Facts. First aired on 18 April 2019, BBC One<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC One - Climate Change - The Facts |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00049b1 |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* Horizon - Feast to Save the Planet. First aired 4 January 2021, BBC Two<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Two - Horizon, 2021, Feast to Save the Planet |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qzyd |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* Six Inches of Soil. First screened in UK 4 January 2024.<ref>{{Citation |last=Ramsay |first=Colin |title=Six Inches of Soil |date=2024-01-04 |type=Documentary |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31139218/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |others=David Morrissey, Adrienne Gordon, Anna Jackson |publisher=DragonLight Films, Springtail Productions}}</ref>

== Memberships ==

* 2016 - present: [https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-futures/ Centre for Social Futures], Lancaster University
* 2024 - present: [https://www.carbonaccountingalliance.com/ Carbon Accounting Alliance]

==References==
==References==
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==Sources==
https://www.thersa.org/about
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.burningquestion.info/ Burning Question website]
*[http://www.burningquestion.info/ Burning Question website]
*{{cite web |title=Climate change and carbon footprinting — an interview with Mike Berners-Lee |url=https://app.croneri.co.uk/feature-articles/climate-change-and-carbon-footprinting-interview-mike-berners-lee |publisher=Croner-i |accessdate=1 January 2019}}
*{{cite web |title=Climate change and carbon footprinting — an interview with Mike Berners-Lee |url=https://app.croneri.co.uk/feature-articles/climate-change-and-carbon-footprinting-interview-mike-berners-lee |publisher=Croner-i |accessdate=1 January 2019}}


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Mike Berners-Lee (2023)

Mike Berners-Lee is an English researcher and writer on carbon footprinting. He is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University[1] and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the university.[2] His books include How Bad are Bananas?,[3][4] The Burning Question[5] and There Is No Planet B[6] and he is a contributing author to The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg. He is considered an expert on carbon footprints.[7]

Early life and education[edit]

He was born in 1964 and is the son of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee who were both mathematicians and computer scientists. One of his brothers is computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee[8] who invented the World Wide Web.

He graduated in physics from University of Oxford in 1986, gained a PGCE in Physics and Outdoor Education at Bangor University in 1988, and has a master's in Organisation Development and Consulting from Sheffield Hallam University (2001).[9] He has been a Professor in Practice at Lancaster University since 2016.

Carbon accounting[edit]

Berners-Lee has pioneered carbon accounting of upstream carbon emissions from supply chains, known as scope 3 emissions, to assess the full greenhouse gas emissions of products. His work at Small World Consulting has combined Process-based Life Cycle Analysis with Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis to achieve both a system-complete estimate of the supply chain and specificity in key areas.[10] He is also a leading researcher in assessing the full climate impacts of current and emerging ICT.[11]

Climate impact of food and land-use[edit]

His research has also examined the climate emissions from food and land-use, concluding that global food production can meet humanity's nutritional needs but only with a radical shift in dietary choices, so that less land is used for the relatively inefficient production of animal products with high greenhouse gas emissions, and more land is used to produce plant-based foods direct for human consumption.[12][13]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Berners-Lee, Mike (2022). "How [Not] to Buy". In Thunberg, Greta (ed.). The Climate Book. ISBN 978-0-241-54747-2.
  • Berners-Lee, Mike (2010). How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything. Profile. ISBN 9781846688911.
    • Second edition: Berners-Lee, Mike (2020). How bad are bananas? : the carbon footprint of everything (New ed.). London: Profile Books. ISBN 9781788163811.
    • "Updated North American" edition: Berners-Lee, Mike (2022). The carbon footprint of everything. Vancouver: Greystone Books. ISBN 9781771645768.
    • Berners-Lee, Mike (2024) Peut-On Encore Manger des Bananes? [How bad are bananas?] (in French) Translated by Bertrand Guillot (1 ed) France. ISBN 9789998772403
  • Berners-Lee, Mike; Clark, Duncan (2013). The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit?. Profile. ISBN 9781781250457.
  • Berners-Lee, Mike (2019). There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years. Cambridge UP. ISBN 9781108545969.

Media appearances[edit]

  • Climate Change - The Facts. First aired on 18 April 2019, BBC One[14]
  • Horizon - Feast to Save the Planet. First aired 4 January 2021, BBC Two[15]
  • Six Inches of Soil. First screened in UK 4 January 2024.[16]

Memberships[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Our people". Lancaster Environment Centre. Lancaster University. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  2. ^ "The Team". Small World Consulting. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  3. ^ "How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  4. ^ Couch, Aaron (13 June 2011). "How Bad are Bananas (review)". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  5. ^ Forbes, Peter (31 May 2013). "The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  6. ^ "There Is No Planet B, by Mike Berners-Lee". www.ft.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  7. ^ "A bad reputation". BBC News: Magazine. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Author – and brother of world wide web inventor – to talk about threat of carbon emissions". Berkhamsted and Tring Gazette. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Mike Berners-Lee". Chartwell Speakers. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  10. ^ Kennelly, C.; Berners-Lee, M.; Hewitt, C.N. (2019). "Hybrid life-cycle assessment for robust, best-practice carbon accounting". Journal of Cleaner Production. 208: 35–43. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.231.
  11. ^ Freitag, Charlotte; Berners-Lee, Mike; Widdicks, Kelly; Knowles, Bran; Blair, Gordon S.; Friday, Adrian (2021). "The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations". Patterns. 2 (9): 100340. doi:10.1016/j.patter.2021.100340. PMC 8441580. PMID 34553177.
  12. ^ Berners-Lee, M.; Hoolohan, C.; Cammack, H.; Hewitt, C.N. (2012). "The relative greenhouse gas impacts of realistic dietary choices". Energy Policy. 43: 184–190. Bibcode:2012EnPol..43..184B. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.054.
  13. ^ Berners-Lee, M.; Kennelly, C.; Watson, R.; Hewitt, C. N. (2018). Kapuscinski, Anne R.; Locke, Kim A.; Peters, Christian J. (eds.). "Current global food production is sufficient to meet human nutritional needs in 2050 provided there is radical societal adaptation". Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 6: 52. Bibcode:2018EleSA...6...52B. doi:10.1525/elementa.310. ISSN 2325-1026.
  14. ^ "BBC One - Climate Change - The Facts". BBC. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  15. ^ "BBC Two - Horizon, 2021, Feast to Save the Planet". BBC. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  16. ^ Ramsay, Colin (4 January 2024), Six Inches of Soil (Documentary), David Morrissey, Adrienne Gordon, Anna Jackson, DragonLight Films, Springtail Productions, retrieved 8 April 2024

External links[edit]

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