Pedro M. S. Monteiro

Biography

Professor Pedro MS Monteiro is a research Professor at the School for Climate Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He leads the emerging research area of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and regional-global feedbacks, a key global and regional science and governance policy challenge towards net-zero emissions and beyond to negative emissions. This reflects his interests in building a better understanding of how regional and global natural carbon sinks and ecosystems and carbon-climate-ecosystem feedbacks are linked and help impact the efficacy and sound policy development for the necessary negative emissions in the 21st Century. It builds on his longer term focus on the role of fine scale ocean physics on carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean and its impact on the uncertainties in the carbon budget and long term carbon-climate projections. He was co-Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for Chapter 5 – Carbon and Biogeochemical Feedbacks – of the IPCC AR6 – WG1, on the JSC of the WCRP, the SSG of Clivar, SSG of AIMES and Chief Oceanographer and head of the SOCCO programme at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).