The Past, Present & Future of CO2 Emissions - Ep63: Glen Peters

10/11/2021 1h 15min Episodio 63
The Past, Present & Future of CO2 Emissions - Ep63: Glen Peters

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Glen Peters is Research Director at Center for International Climate Research (CICERO) in Oslo. Previously he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU.Dr Peters is a worldwide authority on socio-economic drivers of emissions. He has performed pioneering work on how international trade intricately connects emission drivers in different countries. Recent work has focused on trends in carbon emissions, socio-economic drivers, and future emission pathways at the global and country level (particularly China and India). Other key research areas include emission metrics and the carbon cycle. Dr Peters is on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project.While at the University of Newcastle (Australia) he received a University Medal and Deans Medal for undergraduate performance (Mathematics/Physics) and the DH Trollope Medal for his PhD (Environmental Engineering). He has twice received the Environmental Science & Technology Best Policy Paper Award (2007, 2009).Further reading:Glen’s Google Scholar profilehttps://scholar.google.no/citations?user=EW93x94AAAAJGlobal Mitigation Curveshttps://folk.universitetetioslo.no/roberan/t/global\_mitigation\_curves.shtml

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