Ko Barrett currently serves as one of three vice chairs of the IPCC. Barrett has represented the United States on delegations charged with negotiating and adopting scientific assessments undertaken by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international body created to review and assess the most recent scientific, technical, and socio-economic information produced worldwide that is relevant to understanding climate change. She is widely recognized as an expert on climate policy, particularly on issues related to climate impacts and strategies to help society adapt to a changing world. Barrett has a bachelor of science degree in environmental studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville, where she was named University Scholar as well as Distinguished Research Scholar, and elected a member of the Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
Enjoy this special living well where Ko shares about her own journey to becoming a vice chair for the IPCC; the findings of the most recent IPCC report that described how our climate continues to warm at an alarming rate; and how humans need to act quickly to keep our planet from heating beyond 1.5Cl; and what needed to quickly transition to clean sustainable energy sources while keeping the majority of remaining carbon reserve in the ground.
Living Well with Ko Barrett on AshevilleFM, November 5, 2018
