OpinionJuly 1, 2021
Fighting Climate Change Might Have Just Gotten Easier
A court in the Netherlands has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its carbon emissions—and more
Stories by Brenda Ekwurzel
Brenda Ekwurzel is a senior climate scientist and the director of climate science for the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Ekwurzel is a co-author of the fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Volume II. She holds a Ph.D. in isotope geochemistry from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and conducted postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.