“We need to act on the cause of global warming, which means implementing all the solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as fast as possible”

Awarded the 16th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Valérie Masson-Delmotte explains how climate indicators from the past help to interpret current warming and its associated risks. Drawing on her work with the IPCC, she reflects on the need to translate scientific knowledge into concrete actions in order to limit irreversible impacts on natural and human systems.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this sixteenth edition to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jean Jouzel, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jakob Schwander and Thomas F. Stocker “for contributions to the polar ice core records that establish a fundamental coupling between greenhouse gases and air temperature characterizing climate change over the past 800,000 years”.