Joëlle Gergis

is an award-winning climate scientist and writer from the Australian National University. She is a lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”.

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podcast November 12, 2021

COP26: Have we missed our moment?

Joëlle Gergis on what happened at COP26, and what it means for the fate of our planet.

News August 14, 2021

IPCC climate report author: our final plea to the world

For the first time, the IPCC has been able to emphatically conclude that human influence is responsible for almost all global warming experienced since pre-industrial times. All model scenarios show a breach of the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree Celsius target in the early 2030s.

podcast August 16, 2021

A climate scientist offers us hope

Australian scientist Joëlle Gergis was one of the lead authors on a landmark climate report by the IPCC, a United Nations body responsible for assessing the science on climate change.