One of the Deputy Directors of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, Anderson’s Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester. His work focuses on policy goals and carbon budgets, and he is a key voice in challenging both politicians and other scientists for how realistic their rhetoric on emissions and climate change is. Naomi Klein refers to Anderson’s work with Alice Bows at the Tyndall Centre as ‘courageous’ for taking on green groups and ‘the way in which neoliberal economic orthodoxy has infiltrated the scientific establishment’ to push the firm belief that avoiding even a 4C rise will demand radical economic and social change. He’s also well known for criticising both the scientific community and members of the green movement for flying. Anderson can occasionally be found on Twitter @KevinClimate and also blogs.

Kevin Anderson
Engineer calling for radical emissions cuts

Winnie Byanyima
Pushing gender and justice in the climate debate

Jeremy Farrar
Could he help bring biomedicine to the climate debate?

Van Jones
Painting a future of green jobs

Grassroots activists
Real, not astroturf

Li Keqiang
Premier of the planet’s biggest emitter

Crystal Lameman
First Nations voice in North American environment policy

Melissa Leach
Opening up discourse on sustainable development

Michael Liebreich
Olympian voice for new energy finance

Malini Mehra
Working with the Indian diaspora and more for global corporate responsibility

Kumi Naidoo
Fearless Director of Greenpeace International

Sunita Narain
Indian environmental activist

David Roberts
Covering the climate beat, one PDF at a time

Claudia Salerno
A bloodied hand for climate change

Yeb Saño
Unlikely star of Warsaw talks

Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Championing rights of indigenous peoples

Desmond Tutu
South African social rights activist

Mark Watts
Cities as global leaders

Malala Yousafzai
New youthful voice on climate?
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Road to Paris is where science, policy and economics meet on our way to the 2015 climate conference in Paris.