As world leaders and climate scientists assess a decade of action since the historic Paris Climate Agreement, Syracuse researchers across multiple disciplines are available to provide expert analysis on where the world stands in addressing climate change.

The Paris Agreement, adopted on December 12, 2015, brought 196 nations together with the goal of limiting global temperature increases to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Ten years later, questions remain about progress, challenges, and the path forward.

Eight faculty members specializing in everything from ancient climate patterns to modern policy economics can speak to various aspects of the climate crisis:

• Tripti Bhattacharya (College of Arts and Sciences) uses ancient climate data to predict how rainfall patterns will shift with global warming—crucial for understanding drought and flood risks that affect communities worldwide.
• Sam Tuttle (A&S) studies water availability in a changing climate, examining floods, droughts and snow hydrology. His research was cited in U.N. Climate Reports and addresses critical water resource challenges.
• Charles Driscoll (College of Engineering and Computer Science) researches climate change impacts on ecosystems, decarbonization benefits and mercury cycling—with over 554 peer-reviewed publications. He is also a leading expert on air pollution and power plant emissions.
• Melissa Chipman (A&S), a National Geographic Explorer, investigates Arctic climate change through fire dynamics and permafrost thaw, revealing how rapidly warming polar regions affect global systems.
• Jessica Mejia (A&S) specializes in glaciology and ice sheet dynamics, studying how climate change affects critical glacial systems like Greenland’s ice sheet.
• Linda Ivany (A&S) examines how ecosystems respond to climate change across deep time, including research on ancient global warming events that offer insights into current marine ecosystem challenges.
• Robert Wilson (Maxwell School) researches climate change politics, environmental history, and the evolution of climate activism and policy in North America.
• Peter Wilcoxen (Maxwell School) specializes in the economics of climate policy, carbon pricing strategies and modeling the economic impacts of environmental regulations.

These experts are available for interviews to discuss climate science discoveries, policy progress and shortcomings, economic impacts and what the next decade of climate action needs to address.

Please reach out to Daryl Lovell with interview requests or other questions.