Dr Richard Betts leads the Climate Impacts research team in the Met Office Hadley Centre and is one of the Met Office’s main spokesmen on the science of climate change.

Has worked as a climate modeller for 15 years and has pioneered a number of key scientific developments on ecosystem-climate feedbacks and an integrated view of climate change impacts.

He is a lead author on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was an award-winning lead author on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment – the authors shared the Zayed Environment Prize with Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. 

Dr Betts sits on the board of directors of James Lovelock’s GAIA charity.

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