Scientists

Dr. Peter Carter is an expert IPCC reviewer, with highly-regarded publications on global climate change science, climate change impacts, Arctic climate change, risk assessment and biodiversity. Dr. Carter is a retired medically trained doctor and director of the Climate Emergency Institute, with a background in environmental health protection policy.

Alison is currently Executive Director of the Scientists Warning Foundation and has advocated for Extinction Rebellion since its inception. She co-edited the popular Extinction Rebellion book ‘This is not a Drill’. She gave a joint presentation on climate change with the late Stuart Scott to the Foresight Group at the European Commission in 2018, which has since received over 100K views on Scott’s YouTube channel. She gathered further support for climate activism from the international community and spearheaded a call to action from over 1,000 UK academics.

Alison was active in the school climate strikes, writing a press letter supported by numerous academics. She co-authored a widely cited scientific paper supporting school climate strikes, published in the international journal, Science. She was a keynote speaker at London’s Climate Action event (2019), and is an expert witness to the UK Climate Commission for Higher and Further Education.

Alison spoke at COP 26, as a panelist at the Coalition People’s Summit, along with Scientists for XR and Scientists for Global Responsibility. She is a member of the rewilding campaign group, Wildcard and is the Academic Lead for Faculty for a Future.

Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist and activist.

Nilang Gor is a Senior Scientist in the field of genetic disorders and holds M.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Nilang also founded Cultivate Empathy for All, an organization which promotes empathy as a tool to address global challenges. As a systems thinker, he believes that we live in a highly interconnected ecosystem, where our well-being is interdependent on fellow humans, non-human animals, and the environment. Nilang thinks our ignorance of this interdependence has created unsustainable animal agriculture systems which are now impacting our environment, public health, as well as social and racial equity. He mobilizes community members to educate their city lawmakers on the negative impacts of animal-based food systems on various aspects of our society and environment, and promote local, sustainable policies and programs.

Jonathan Balcombe is an ethologist and author. He is formerly Director of Animal Sentience with the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, and Department Chair for Animal Studies with Humane Society University, in Washington, DC.

Ray is a British biographer who is renowned for his biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he taught in various capacities from 1992 to 2018.

Dr. Kurt Schmidinger is food scientist and geophysicist, founder of futurefood.org, member of the advisory boards of Good Food Institute, Albert Schweitzer Stiftung and other NGOs, affiliate at FEWD at the University of Vienna – and activist.

Tommy Wiedmann is a Professor of Sustainability Science in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His research explores the intersection of human and planetary well-being, with a recent focus on sustainability transformations and post-growth economies. He has expertise in integrated quantitative sustainability assessment, industrial ecology, and environmental footprint analysis. His work includes Scope 3 emissions accounting at city, regional, sectorial and household levels. Tommy served as a Lead Author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group III, focused on emissions trends and drivers (2019-2022), and contributed to the Fifth Assessment Report. He is also an Adjunct Science Leader at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, a recipient of the Thomson Reuters Citation Award, and has been named a Highly Cited Researcher annually since 2015.