Opha Pauline Dube (born 1960) is a Botswanan environmental scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Botswana. She co-authored the IPCC's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. She is one of fifteen scientists creating the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report for the United Nations.
Pauline Dube | |
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 Dube speaks at the World Meteorological Organization in 2019 | |
| Born | Opha Pauline Dube 1960 |
| Nationality | Botswana |
| Education | Cranfield University (MPhil) University of Queensland (PhD) |
| Occupation | Associate Professor |
| Known for | Leading environmental scientist, who co-authored the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C |
| Website | Official website |
Education
editDube was awarded her MPhil in Applied Remote Sensing at the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the UK in 1989.[1] She graduated with a PhD from the University of Queensland in 2000.[2] She earned her doctorate due to a collaboration between the University of Botswana and the University of Queensland arranged by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. The work involved investigating whether remote sensing-based methods used on Australian ranges could be applied to monitor land degradation in Botswana.[2]
Career and research
editDube is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Botswana.[1][2] Her research and teaching focuses on the social and biophysical aspects of global environmental change. In 2012, she held a research fellowship at the Australian National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) at Griffith University and had a similar position at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford in 2018.[2]
Dube was Co-Vice Chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) between 2010 and 2015[3] and the Deputy Chair of Botswana National Climate Change Committee between 2017 and 2019.[4] Dube is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Climate Research for Development in Africa (CR4D)-UNECA[4] and the Vice Chair of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Scientific Advisory Panel.[5]
She is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the Elsevier Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability academic journal[6] and an associate editor of the CSIRO Rangeland Journal.[7] In 2019, Dube was listed in the top 100 of "The World's Most Influential People in Climate Policy"[8] and in October 2020, she was appointed by the UN Secretary General to be one of fifteen scientists creating the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report for the United Nations.[9]
Dube has served as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II since the Third Assessment Report.[4] This group "assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change and options for adapting to it".[10] She has contributed to the IPCC's Third,[11] Fourth[12] and Fifth[13] Assessment Reports, acting as both an author and a review editor. Her work on the Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (AR4 WG2) report, as part of the Fourth Assessment Report, led to Dube being awarded an International Nobel Peace Prize Certificate in 2007.[14] She was also coordinating lead author for two of the IPCC's Special Reports: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) [15] and Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15).[16]
Dube worked as a review editor for the upcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, on the chapter titled "Food, fibre, and other ecosystem products."[17]
Awards and honours
editSelected publications
edit- Allen, M.R., O.P. Dube, W. Solecki, F. Aragón-Durand, W. Cramer, S. Humphreys, M. Kainuma, J. Kala, N. Mahowald, Y. Mulugetta, R. Perez, M.Wairiu, and K. Zickfeld, 2018. Framing and Context. In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V. et al. (eds.)]. In Press.
- Maru, Y.T., M.S. Smith, A. Sparrow, P.F. Pinho, O.P. Dube, 2014. A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities. Global Environmental Change, 28, 337–350. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.12.007
- Dube, O.P., 2009. Linking fire and climate: interactions with land use, vegetation, and soil. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1 (2), 161-169. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2009.10.008
- Fischlin, A., G.F. Midgley, J.T. Price, R. Leemans, B. Gopal, C. Turley, M.D.A. Rounsevell, O.P. Dube, J. Tarazona, A.A. Velichko, 2007. Ecosystems, their properties, goods, and services. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, [Parry, M.L. et al. eds.]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 211-272.
External links
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References
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- ^ a b c d e "Australia Alumni, Professor Opha Pauline Dube, awarded the International Alumni of the Year – Australia Awards Africa". Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Dr. Opha Pauline Dube | AWARD". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ a b c "GSDR 2023 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs". sdgs.un.org. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Scientific Advisory Panel". World Meteorological Organization. 28 May 2019. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "CSIRO PUBLISHING". www.publish.csiro.au. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b "The World's 100 Most Influential People In Climate Policy". Apolitical. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ Nations, United. "Announcing the authors of the next Global Sustainable Development Report". United Nations. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Working Group II — IPCC". Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Africa — IPCC". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Ecosystems, their Properties, Goods and Services — IPCC". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Africa — IPCC". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Professor Opha Pauline Dube". alumni.uq.edu.au. 3 August 2018. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Managing the Risks: International Level and Integration across Scales — IPCC". Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Chapter 1 — Global Warming of 1.5 °C". Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "IPCC Authors (beta)". archive.ipcc.ch. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.