With rising emissions threatening to tip the world into catastrophic climate change, a leading IPCC scientist joined clean energy advocates at the UN Climate Change Conference to call for more creative, evidence-based outreach around the world to drive support for net zero energy solutions, including nuclear power.
Richard Betts—a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 4th, 5th and 6th Assessment Reports—and net zero advocates from Lesotho and the United Kingdom spoke at an IAEA event on using science to creatively engage stakeholders at the UN climate summit (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
“Personally, I think we need to throw everything at this problem—I don’t like to rule anything out,” said Dr Betts, who was a friend of the late James Lovelock, the British scientist behind the Gaia theory that life on Earth functions like a…
COP27: Leading IPCC Scientist Joins Clean Energy Advocates in Calling for Nuclear for Net Zero
