Glen Peters

Glen P. Peters is a climate scientist . He is research director of the Center for International Climate Research (CICERO).

Life

Peters completed a bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Newcastle from 1993 to 1996 , in 1997 also in mathematics and from 1998 to 2002 a doctorate in environmental engineering . From 2004 to 2008 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway (NTNU) and since 2008 at CICERO.

Act

Peter's work deals with the “human factor” for global change , the global carbon cycle , bioenergy , scenario analyzes , sustainable consumption , international trade and climate policy as well as the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions . He was one of the authors of the Emissions Gap Report 2018. In his work, he often deals with CO ₂ capture and storage .

Peters participates extensively in the public discussion about ways out of the climate crisis . He said: “The media is teeming with images of wind turbines and solar panels. That is all well and good, but if we are to achieve the goals set in the Paris Agreement, what are known as negative emissions are required - so that we are removing CO ₂ already released into the atmosphere and removing it on a large scale. But little is said about it, although the politicians are beginning to understand the enormous task this represents. ”He also takes a very critical look at the concept of the CO ₂ budget .

The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg stated in an interview in 2019 that climatologists such as Glen Peters and Kevin Anderson checked the speeches she had written for accuracy and precision.

Publications (selection)

• Glen P. Peters, Jan C. Minx , Christopher L. Weber , Ottmar Edenhofer : Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 2011, 201006388, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1006388108
• Glen P. Peters, Robbie M. Andrew , Tom Boden , Josep G. Canadell , Philippe Ciais , Corinne Le Quéré , Gregg Marland , Michael R. Raupach , Charlie Wilson: The challenge to keep global warming below 2 C. In: Nature Climate Change . Volume 3, No. 1, 2012, p. 4, doi: 10.1038 / nclimate1783
• Glen P. Peters: Beyond carbon budgets. In: Nature Geoscience . Volume 11, No. 6, 2018, pp. 378-380, doi: 10.1038 / s41561-018-0142-4

credentials

1. ↑ ^{a b} Glen Peters. Center for International Climate Research, accessed February 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Glen Peters. LinkedIn, accessed February 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Emissions Gap Report 2018. United Nations Environment Program , November 27, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ If he has imagined technologies that should be redde. VG, September 17, 2017, accessed February 2, 2019 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ How the “Carbon Budget” Is Causing Problems. Scientific America, May 22, 2018, accessed February 2, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Interview with Greta Thunberg: "It is a good sign that you hate me". Spiegel Online, February 2, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019 .