Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill | |
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Born | 1965 |
Citizenship | United States |
Education | Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science and an M.S. in Applied Science, New York University |
Alma mater | New York University |
Known for | scenario analysis, population and climate change |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Earth system science, demography, integrated assessment modeling |
Institutions | IIASA, Brown University, NCAR |
Website | staff |
Brian C. O'Neill is an American earth system scientist who studies the relationship between future societal development, emissions, and climate change impacts. O'Neill is known for interdisciplinary work on climate and human systems, in particular population and climate change. He was also involved in the development of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) to be used in scenario analysis. He served as a lead author for several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.
Career
O'Neill obtained an M.S. in Applied Science and a Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science from New York University. After working on the science staff of the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor (Research) at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. From 2005 to 2009 O'Neill was at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, where he founded and led the Population and Climate Change Program. Afterwards, he returned to the United States to work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). At NCAR, he was a Senior Scientist and led the Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) group. In September 2018, he will start to work as a professor for the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
O'Neill has researched the interplay of future societal development, emissions, and climate change impacts. He has written several publications on the relationship between demography and climate change, including how demographic factors like aging or urbanization affect emission trajectories and how climate change impacts are dependent on demographic composition, which affects the ability to adapt. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
O'Neill uses long-term scenarios in his analysis and contributes to their development. Most notable, he was involved in the development of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) to be used in scenario analysis.[6][7][8] These SSPs will replace the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) projections and will be used to systematically assess climate change under different societal futures.[9]
O'Neill has performed research on impacts from climate change by using integrated assessment modelling impacts, as well as advancing concepts on how to best systematically assess impacts.[10] He co-led the "Benefits of Reduced Anthropogenic Climate changE" (BRACE) project to study climate change impacts and co-edited a special issue in Climatic Change.[11]
O'Neill has also served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Assessment Reports. For the volumes on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (Working Group II), he was lead author for the chapter on "New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions" (AR4) and "Emergent Risks and Key Vulnerabilities" (AR5), respectively. O'Neill will be a coordinating lead author of the Sixth Assessment Report for a chapter on "Key risks across sectors and regions".[12]
References
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; MacKellar, F Landis; Lutz, Wolfgang (2001). Population and Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Ren, Xiaolin; Jiang, Leiwen; Dalton, Michael (2012). "The effect of urbanization on energy use in India and China in the iPETS model". Energy Economics. 34: S339–S345. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2012.04.004.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Dalton, Michael; Fuchs, Regina; Jiang, Leiwen; Pachauri, Shonali; Zigova, Katarina (2010). "Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (41): 17521–17526. doi:10.1073/pnas.1004581107.
- ^ Dalton, Michael; O'Neill, Brian; Prskawetz, Alexia; Jiang, Leiwen; Pitkin, John (2008). "Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States" (PDF). Energy Economics. 30 (2): 642–675. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2006.07.002.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Liddle, Brant; Jiang, Leiwen; Smith, Kirk R; Pachauri, Shonali; Dalton, Michael; Fuchs, Regina (2012). "Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions". The Lancet. 380 (9837): 157–164. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60958-1.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Kriegler, Elmar; Riahi, Keywan; Ebi, Kristie L; Hallegatte, Stephane; Carter, Timothy R; Mathur, Ritu; Van Vuuren, Detlef P (2013). "A new scenario framework for climate change research: The concept of shared socioeconomic pathways". Climatic Change. 122 (3): 387–400. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0905-2.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Kriegler, Elmar; Ebi, Kristie L; Kemp-Benedict, Eric; Riahi, Keywan; Rothman, Dale S; Van Ruijven, Bas J; Van Vuuren, Detlef P; Birkmann, Joern; Kok, Kasper; Levy, Marc; Solecki, William (2017). "The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century". Global Environmental Change. 42: 169–180. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.004.
- ^ Kriegler, Elmar; O'Neill, Brian C; Hallegatte, Stephane; Kram, Tom; Lempert, Robert J; Moss, Richard H; Wilbanks, Thomas (2012). "The need for and use of socio-economic scenarios for climate change analysis: A new approach based on shared socio-economic pathways". Global Environmental Change. 22 (4): 807–822. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.05.005.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Tebaldi, Claudia; Van Vuuren, Detlef P; Eyring, Veronika; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Hurtt, George; Knutti, Reto; Kriegler, Elmar; Lamarque, Jean-Francois; Lowe, Jason; Meehl, Gerald A; Moss, Richard; Riahi, Keywan; Sanderson, Benjamin M (2016). "The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6". Geoscientific Model Development. 9 (9): 3461–3482. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3461-2016.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Oppenheimer, Michael; Warren, Rachel; Hallegatte, Stephane; Kopp, Robert E; Pörtner, Hans O; Scholes, Robert; Birkmann, Joern; Foden, Wendy; Licker, Rachel; Mach, Katharine J; Marbaix, Phillippe; Mastrandrea, Michael D; Price, Jeff; Takahashi, Kiyoshi; Van Ypersele, Jean-Pascal; Yohe, Gary (2017). "IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks" (Submitted manuscript). Nature Climate Change. 7: 28–37. doi:10.1038/nclimate3179.
- ^ O'Neill, Brian C; Gettelman, Andrew (2018). "An introduction to the special issue on the Benefits of Reduced Anthropogenic Climate changE (BRACE)". Climatic Change. 146 (3–4): 277–285. doi:10.1007/s10584-017-2136-4.
- ^ Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Major publications
- O'Neill, Brian C; MacKellar, F Landis; Lutz, Wolfgang (2001). Population and Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
- Dalton, Michael; O'Neill, Brian; Prskawetz, Alexia; Jiang, Leiwen; Pitkin, John (2008). "Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States" (PDF). Energy Economics. 30 (2): 642–675. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2006.07.002.
- O'Neill, Brian C; Dalton, Michael; Fuchs, Regina; Jiang, Leiwen; Pachauri, Shonali; Zigova, Katarina (2010). "Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (41): 17521–17526. doi:10.1073/pnas.1004581107.
- Kriegler, Elmar; O'Neill, Brian C; Hallegatte, Stephane; Kram, Tom; Lempert, Robert J; Moss, Richard H; Wilbanks, Thomas (2012). "The need for and use of socio-economic scenarios for climate change analysis: A new approach based on shared socio-economic pathways". Global Environmental Change. 22 (4): 807–822. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.05.005.
- O'Neill, Brian C; Liddle, Brant; Jiang, Leiwen; Smith, Kirk R; Pachauri, Shonali; Dalton, Michael; Fuchs, Regina (2012). "Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions". The Lancet. 380 (9837): 157–164. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60958-1.
- O'Neill, Brian C; Kriegler, Elmar; Riahi, Keywan; Ebi, Kristie L; Hallegatte, Stephane; Carter, Timothy R; Mathur, Ritu; Van Vuuren, Detlef P (2013). "A new scenario framework for climate change research: The concept of shared socioeconomic pathways". Climatic Change. 122 (3): 387–400. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0905-2.
- O'Neill, Brian C; Kriegler, Elmar; Ebi, Kristie L; Kemp-Benedict, Eric; Riahi, Keywan; Rothman, Dale S; Van Ruijven, Bas J; Van Vuuren, Detlef P; Birkmann, Joern; Kok, Kasper; Levy, Marc; Solecki, William (2017). "The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century". Global Environmental Change. 42: 169–180. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.004.
- O'Neill, Brian C; Oppenheimer, Michael; Warren, Rachel; Hallegatte, Stephane; Kopp, Robert E; Pörtner, Hans O; Scholes, Robert; Birkmann, Joern; Foden, Wendy; Licker, Rachel; Mach, Katharine J; Marbaix, Phillippe; Mastrandrea, Michael D; Price, Jeff; Takahashi, Kiyoshi; Van Ypersele, Jean-Pascal; Yohe, Gary (2017). "IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks" (Submitted manuscript). Nature Climate Change. 7: 28–37. doi:10.1038/nclimate3179.
- O'Neill, Brian C; Done, James; Gettelman, Andrew; Lawrence, Peter; Lehner, Flavio; Lamarque, Jean-Francois; Lin, Lei; Monaghan, Andrew; Oleson, Keith; Ren, Xiaolin; Sanderson, Benjamin; Tebaldi, Claudia; Weitzel, Matthias; Xu, Yangyang; Anderson, Brooke; Fix, Miranda J; Levis, Samuel (2017). "The Benefits of Reduced Anthropogenic Climate changE (BRACE): A synthesis". Climatic Change. 146 (3–4): 287–301. doi:10.1007/s10584-017-2009-x.