Leo Hickman

After the COP28 climate summit concluded, Carbon Brief convened its team of specialist journalists to discuss the key outcomes of the event in Dubai.

John Kerry said the US will not pay “reparations” to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters, and more on climate this week.

Carbon Brief is supported by an international group of academics, each specialising in various areas of climate science and policy.

Teresa Ribera has been Spain’s minister for the ecological transition since June 2018. Before then, she had been the director of IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations) in Paris since 2014.

Ayman Shashly is a senior negotiator for Saudi Arabia at both the UNFCCC and IPCC. In his role as an international policies consultant with the ministry of petroleum and mineral resources in Saudi Arabia, he is a board member of the Green Climate Fund.

Dr Kate Marvel is an associate research scientist at Columbia University and the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

Prof Stephen Belcher was appointed the chief scientist at the Met Office in December 2016. In 2012, he joined the Met Office as director of the Met Office Hadley Centre. Previously, he was the head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Reading.

Michael Gerrard is the Andrew Sabin professor of professional practice at Columbia Law School and the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Brian Deese served as President Barack Obama’s senior adviser on climate change, energy and conservation from January 2015 to January 2017.

Leo Hickman interviews Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s prominent voices on climate change, on Australian climate policy, carbon price, coal, & post-COP21.