ZENNSTRÖM VISITING PROFESSOR 2016–2018
Contact: kevin.anderson@ccl.uu.se
Kevin Anderson is one of the leading climate scientists in the U.K. He is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and Deputy Director at the renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Kevin is a well-known and established researcher within climate change science who engages frequently with policy-makers, the private sector, civil society as well as the media. He has pioneered research on carbon budgets and pathways to acceptable mitigation levels. His work on the technical, social and economic interactions involved in the transformation of energy systems and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, addresses questions at the core of this professorship’s theme.
The main theme of Kevin Anderson’s time as Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership was connected to Carbon Budgets.
You can read the full report concerning his time as Zennström chair here:
Scroll down to read more about carbon budgets and for a compedium of articles documenting Kevin’s time in Uppsala.
Theme : Carbon Budgets
The global carbon budget is the limited total amount of carbon dioxide, the emission space, that can be released into the atmosphere to meet a certain temperature target. It can be broken down and distributed in time and space, thereby being expressed as local annual carbon budgets.
A carbon budget is then the amount of carbon dioxide, and the associated proposals for a reduction rate to meet this. But the budget also consists of the interpretations of what the Paris Agreement means and the possibility of so-called negative emissions. In itself, it helps to concretize what it means for carbon dioxide to accumulate in the atmosphere, and that CO2 emissions must therefore be viewed from a cumulative perspective.
Kevin Anderson is a pioneer in the work of transforming the global carbon budget to national and local levels and has, among other things, developed a budget for Manchester, Scotland and for England through their Climate Change Act.
In 2017, Järfälla municipality contacted the Climate Leadership (CCL) and wondered if Järfälla could have a carbon dioxide budget calculated (Anderson et al., 2017). When the project was completed, more municipalities and counties contacted CCL and asked to have budgets calculated.
The great interest resulted in the launch in 2018 of a project, Carbon Dioxide Budgets 2020-2040, to calculate budgets for more municipalities, regions and counties. Especially during edition two, but also in recent rounds dialogue has been conducted with participating organizations via email and meetings. The meetings have aimed to adapt the content of the reports to the needs and for the authors to take part in municipal and regional perspectives, knowledge and experiences.
In total, we have now calculated carbon dioxide budgets for about twenty municipalities, regions and counties around Sweden
These reports can be downloaded here.
Föreläsning: ”Laggards or leaders (bromskloss eller ledare); Paris, 2°C & the role for Sweden” av Kevin Anderson. Den hölls på Hotel Lysekil den 9 mars och publik var människor som hade samlats för att protestera mot Preems utbyggnad av oljeraffinaderiet i Lysekil. Dagen efter deltog Kevin Anderson som vittne i Mark- och miljööverdomstolens förhandlingar om Preems ansökan om utbyggnad. Mars 2020.
Seminarium: Fossilfri välfärd och negativa utsläpp – vision, kollision eller tomma ord? Den 11 februari 2020 samlades forskare och beslutsfattare för att ta sig an dessa två centrala idéer i den aktuella klimatpolitiken: fossilfri välfärd och negativa utsläpp. Isak Stoddard, doktorand hos CCL och NRHU, var med i panel diskussionen.
En koldioxidbudget för Umeå: Vår del av Paris avtalet. Med Aaron Tuckey och Martin Wetterstedt. October 2019.
Watch a short film: Professor Kevin Anderson on Living within our carbon budget: the role of politics, technology and personal actionhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/E-VKMp18x7s?start=4&feature=oembed
A Democracy Now! broadcast with Kevin Anderson: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe. From the United Nations Climate Summit in Katowice, Poland. December 2018.
Sweden’s carbon budget challenge – turning Paris’ aspirations into local climate action Part 1 and Part 2. A lecture and panel discussion with Kevin Anderson, Agneta Green, Anders Wijkman, and Karin Sundby. July 2018.
The Swedish Carbon Cycle 2018 with Kevin Anderson.
From Paris to Sweden: 2° C, integrity, and the climate law, Kevin Anderson talk in Halmstad. June 2018.
ClimateExistence Conference: The Science, Politics and Culture of Climate Change – Beyond a Climate of Fear by Kevin Anderson followed by a dialogue between Vanessa Andreotti, Jens Holm, Anja Fjellgren Walkeapaa and Kevin Anderson, hosted by Sanna Gunnarsson, intervention by Klimatriksdagen. May 2018.
Kevin Anderson on Climate change and the need to change behaviour in the West. Research and the Sustainable Development Goals at the Danish Institute for International Studies. 26 April 2018.
Kevin Anderson on Climate change and economic growth: Can they be managed together? From Klimatriksdagen seminarium. February 6, 2018.
Kort intervju: Kevin Anderson om flygets utsläpp och alternativa fakta. February 2018.
Kevin Anderson: Revealing the naked emperor – Paris, 2° & carbon budgets. Talk at SR and SVT-event, November 2017.
A Democracy Now! broadcast with Kevin Anderson: Our Socio-Economic Paradigm Is Incompatible With Climate Change Objectives. From the United Nations Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany. November 2017.
Quit the loose climate talk and let’s get serious! A talk between Kevin Anderson and Hugh Hunt. Climate Matters show live from COP-23 in Bonn, Germany. November 2017.
Kevin Anderson and Isak Stoddard on Carbon Budget and Pathways to a fossil free future in Järfälla Kommun. October 25, 2017.
Podcast: Transition for beginners – How not to fly with Kevin Anderson, Radio Luftbalett, October 27, 2017.
Leader or Laggard? Reviewing Sweden’s climate and sustainability agenda . A lecture and panel discussion from Almedalen 2017 with Kevin Anderson, Ranjula Bali Swain, Hanna Hansson, and Erik Westholm.
Are universities making the world worse? Education and research in an age of climate change . A panel discussion from Almedalen 2017 with Kevin Anderson, Josefin Wangel Weithz, and Johanna van Schaik Dernfalk.
Sustainable development dilemma – why are facts not enough to convince? A panel discussion with Kevin Anderson, Henrik Hamrén, Maria Osbeck, and Anna Rudels from Almedalen 2017.
Climate Catastrophe or Societal Transition – What is Needed of Politicians and Individuals? An interview with Kevin Anderson and Stigbjörn Ljunggren. Almedalen 2017.
Courage and Climate: An Interview with Kevin Anderson. Interviewed by Paul Campion and Stephen Tuscher, students at the Newman Institute, for Civic Courage in Theory and Practice, a course taught by Brian Palmer. November 2016.