Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University (CEU). She was elected as Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in July 2023.
In the Sixth Assessment cycle she served as Vice-Chair of IPCC’s Working Group III. (Mitigation). She was a Coordinating Lead Author in both the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports (AR4 and AR5) of the IPCC. She is Vice President of the Hungarian Scientific Panel on Climate Change. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA and worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Selected Publications
Media Appearances
BBC
BBC appearance discussing global warming, the broaching of the 1.5° C target, and what the Paris Agreement’s goals mean in an ever-warming world.
EuroNews
EuroNews panel interview discussing the European state of the climate report by Copernicus, heatwaves, and how we can cool urban areas without increasing our energy use.