Burtoni Award
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The Burtoni award is named after Canadian professor Ian Burton, a pioneer in the science of adaptation to climate change and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
reports.
It is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to climate change adaptation science and policy.
Awards received:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
reports.
It is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to climate change adaptation science and policy.
Awards received:
- 2003: Ian Burton
- 2005: Roger Jones is a Principal Research Scientist in the Climate Change Impacts and Risk Stream of CSIRO (Australia), specialised in Marine and Atmospheric Research. It was awarded in recognition of his innovations in research methods for assessing adaptation to climate change. Dr Jones has developed techniques for managing climate change risks at the local level which are now being widely used in Australia and overseas. He has been involved in a variety of national and international assessments concerning water, agriculture, biodiversity, economics, adaptation to climate change and the benefits of climate policy. He is a currently convening lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeIntergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
’s Fourth Assessment Report which was released in 2007. - 2007: Dr Saleemul HuqSaleemul HuqSaleemul Huq is a Bangladeshi scientist based in London. He is a Senior Fellow in the Climate Change Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development. Huq was awarded the Burtoni Award in 2007 for his work on climate change adaptation....
is the head of the climate change group of International Institute for Environment and DevelopmentInternational Institute for Environment and DevelopmentThe International Institute for Environment and Development is a London-based policy research centre and think tank.- History :IIED was established by the economist Barbara Ward in 1971...
, UK. He was awarded for his work linking adaptation and development, his research on decision making and his efforts to build capacity. It was awarded during a three-day workshop on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dhaka. - 2010: Dr Coleen Vogel, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Witwatersrand, JohannesburgJohannesburgJohannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
. She was Lead Author for the IPCCIntergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
Working Group 2 report on Africa, and she chaired the International Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions ProgrammeInternational Human Dimensions ProgrammeThe International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change is a research programme that studies the human and societal aspects of the phenomenon of global change....
on Climate Change.