Corinne Le Quéré

Corinne Le Quéré (2016)

Corinne Le Quéré is a Canadian climate scientist . She is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and a former long-time director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research .

Life

Le Quéré received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Montréal in 1990, a master's degree in atmospheric and ocean sciences from McGill University in 1992 and a doctorate in oceanography from the University of Paris VI in 1999 . She worked at Princeton University from 1992 to 1996, at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry from 2000 to 2004 and the British Antarctic Survey from 2005 to 2010 . From 2011 to 2018 she headed the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research .

Act

Le Quéré's research focuses on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle . She heads the annual update of the Global Carbon Project's Global Carbon Budget , which provides information on global and national carbon emissions and their distribution between the atmosphere, land and oceans, including their drivers. She is a member of the Committee on Climate Change in the UK and of the corresponding Le Haut Conseil pour le climat in France . She is one of the authors of the Third , Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Le Quéré regularly takes a public position on the climate crisis . So she said at the end of 2018: “A lot more needs to be done, because if the states only adhere to the voluntary commitments they have made so far, we are on the way to global warming of three degrees Celsius. This year we have seen climate change amplify heat waves around the world. The bush fires in California were a snapshot of the growing problems we face if emissions are not reduced quickly. ”She also calls for faster action. She once said: “With the man-made emissions of 41 billion tons of CO ₂ in 2017, we are running out of time. It will be so difficult to keep global warming well below two degrees Celsius , let alone below 1.5 degrees. "

Awards

• Blaise Pascal Medal (2015)
• AH Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences (2020)

Publications (selection)

• Corinne Le Quéré et al. a. (2007). Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO ₂ Sink Due to Recent Climate Change. Science, 316 (5832), 1735-1738, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1136188
• Corinne Le Quéré et al. a. (2009). Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. Nature Geoscience, 2 (12), 831. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo689
• Corinne Le Quéré et al. a. (2016). Global carbon budget 2016. Earth System Science Data (Online), 8 (2). https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-605-2016

credentials

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Corinne Le Quéré. Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, accessed February 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Corinne Le Quéré, Biography. University of East Anglia, accessed February 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Climate protection: What should happen. Telepolis, December 12, 2018, accessed February 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ What is the future of fossil fuels? DW, November 15, 2017, accessed December 7, 2019 .