Piers Forster

(he/him)
University of Leeds
Current PositionDirector Priestley Centre for Climate Futures
Emailp.m.forster@leeds.ac.uk
Department(s)School of Earth and Environment, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
ECRNo
YES.DTN Core ThemesAtmosphere and Climate
Profile(s)Piers Forster (0000-0002-6078-0171) – ORCID

Key Research Interests

  • Tracking global climate change
  • National and International mitigation policies
  • Setting corporate climate targets
  • Aviation climate impacts

Recent Key Papers

  • Forster, P.M., Smith, C., Walsh, T., Lamb, W.F., Lamboll, R., Hall, B., Hauser, M., Ribes, A., Rosen, D., Gillett, N.P. and Palmer, M.D., 2024. Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence. Earth System Science Data16(6), pp.2625-2658.
  • Jarvis, A. and Forster, P.M., 2024. Estimated human-induced warming from a linear temperature and atmospheric CO2 relationship. Nature Geoscience, pp.1-3.
  • Döbbeling-Hildebrandt, N., Miersch, K., Khanna, T.M., Bachelet, M., Bruns, S.B., Callaghan, M., Edenhofer, O., Flachsland, C., Forster, P.M., Kalkuhl, M. and Koch, N., 2024. Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing. Nature communications15(1), p.4147.