Pauline Dube

Opha Pauline Dube or Pauline Dube (born 1960) is an eminent Botswanan environmental scientist. She co-authored the 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.

Opha Pauline Dube
Born1960
NationalityBotswana
EducationUniversity of Queensland
OccupationAssistant Professor
Known forleading environment scientist who co-authored Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C

Life

Dube was born in 1960 and she graduated from the University of Queensland. During the 1990s she gained 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.[1]

In 2012 she held a research fellowship at the Australian National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) at Griffith University and again in 2018 she had a similar position at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.[1]

She was given an Australia Award by the Government of Australia[2] when she was recognised as the "Alumni of the Year".[1]

Dube has expertise in sustainable development, community-inclusive environmental management, and climate change adaptation. She is a woman involved in climate change as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contributing author.[3] The World Health Organization believes that incorporating gender-based analysis would "provide more effective climate change mitigation".[4] Dube has been involved in writing important reports for the IPCC including the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C.[5] In 2007 she received a Nobel Peace Prize Certificate in recognition of her work with the IPCC.[6]

In 2019 she was said to be one the 100 Most Influential people involved in climate change. In October 2020 was appointed by the UN Secretary General to be one of fifteen scientists creating the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report for the United Nations.[7]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Australia Alumni, Professor Opha Pauline Dube, awarded the International Alumni of the Year – Australia Awards Africa". Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  2. "Australia Awards Africa". Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  3. "IPCC Authors (beta)". archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  4. "Gender, Climate Change, and Health" (PDF). World Health Organization. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  5. "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" (PDF). IPCC. 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  6. "Professor Opha Pauline Dube". alumni.uq.edu.au. 2018-08-03. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  7. Kanono, Ricardo. "UN SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS PROFESSOR DUBE TO EMINENT SCIENTISTS PANEL - The Patriot on Sunday". www.thepatriot.co.bw. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
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