Solutions that Scale

Our Vision

A society where individuals and global institutions partner to enable the long-term flourishing of our planet, its natural resources, and its inhabitants.

Our Mission

To discover, translate, and enable scalable, data-driven solutions to the global problems of climate change and environmental degradation; to accelerate humanity’s understanding of our impact on the physical climate; to build collaborations among scientists, business leaders, and policy makers to create actions that promote global flourishing; to educate climate and environmental change leaders in a broad range of careers.

Climate Solutions Loop

Global environmental problems often take the shape of vicious cycles, with universal human desires for improved wellbeing cascading via consumption and environmental impacts to instead reduce it. Different solutions address different links in such cycles, born of research, translation, education, and practice. However, solutions to planetary problems must reach planetary proportions. This is why we’re bringing together scientists and academics, policy makers, business leaders, and global citizens to identify and accelerate solutions that scale.

Executive Board

Wendell Brase

Associate Chancellor, Office of Sustainability

Jack Brouwer

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering

James Bullock

Dean, School of Physical Sciences and Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michael Burton

Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences

Helen Lee

Director of Research Development, School of Physical Sciences

Steve Davis

Associate Professor, Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences

Barbara Finlayson-Pitts

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering

Richard Matthew

Associate Dean for Research and International Programs and Professor, Urban Planning, Policy and Design, School of Social Ecology

Dele Ogunseitan

Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention, School of Public Health

Francois Primeau

Department Chair and Professor, Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences

Eric Rignot

Donald Bren Professor, Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences

Dan Stokols

Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, School of Social Ecology

Bill Tomlinson

Professor, Informatics, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

André van der Hoek

Department Chair and Professor, Informatics, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Veronica M. Vieira

Professor and Interim Chair, Environmental and Occupational Health, Program in Public Health, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences

Jenny Yang

Associate Professor, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences

Iryna Zenyuk

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering

Affiliated Centers, Institutes and Initiatives

News

UCI embarks on decarbonization study

January 12, 2024

UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis

November 6, 2023

UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains

September 7, 2023

UCI, NASA JPL researchers discover a cause of rapid ice melting in Greenland

May 8, 2023

Scientists discover a way Earth’s atmosphere cleans itself

April 7, 2023

Earth system scientists uncover ice-age shift in Pacific Ocean circulation

March 29, 2023

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