Global solutions: what physicists can do to tackle the climate crisis
“A code red for humanity” is how António Guterres, the United Nations’ secretary general, described the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s easy to ignore such warnings as distant, vague and alarmist, something only of concern to policymakers and politicians. But the challenges of climate change shouldn’t be “other people’s problems”; they concern all of us. James Dacey interviews physicists who are already doing their bit to tackle the climate crisis, while Laura Hiscott highlights green job opportunities for physics graduates and James McKenzie looks at what business can do for the climate.
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