Pedro M.S. Monteiro

Prof Pedro Monteiro is based at the Stellenbosch University School for Climate Studies where he leads the emerging research area of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), a key global and regional science and governance policy challenge towards and beyond net-zero emissions in 21st century. 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 and Chief Oceanographer and head of the SOCCO programme at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).