Introduction: Climate crisis. The crevice of the planet

Authors

  • Sérgio Henrique Faria Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain).
  • María José Sanz Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.21410

Abstract

This monograph presents a collection of essays and perspectives on the multiple dimensions of the current climate crisis, characterised by the threat to the global environment and our social fabric posed by anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change.

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Author Biographies

Sérgio Henrique Faria, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain).

Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science (Spain). He is a physicist with a PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2003). He is also the director of the low-temperature laboratory IzotzaLab, leader of the Physical Basis research line, and director of the Cryosphere and Climate Modelling research groups at BC3. He is lead and contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group 1 (WGI), of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and editor of Journal of Glaciology (Cambridge University Press) and Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). He has also participated in several expeditions to the most remote glaciers at the heart of Antarctica and Greenland.

María José Sanz, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain).

Ikerbasque professor and director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain). She was the director of the Air Pollutant Effects and the Carbon Cycle Programme at the Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM) in Valencia, while advising the Spanish Government on land use and forestry issues in the multilateral negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as the EU Commission and the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Member of the executive board of the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). She served in the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn and coordinated the UNREDD programme at FAO. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as an author of the IPCC, with which she has collaborated since 2003 on several reports. She is also an advisor to the Green Climate Fund, the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund, CIFOR, FAO, and several developing countries’ governments on forestry and land use issues.

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Published

2022-02-02

How to Cite

Faria, S. H., & Sanz, M. J. (2022). Introduction: Climate crisis. The crevice of the planet. Metode Science Studies Journal, (12), 104–105. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.21410
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The future of science (2022)

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Climate crisis. The crevice of the planet

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