Professor Myles Allen

Described by the BBC as "the physicist behind net zero". Myles has been studying how human activities and natural drivers contribute to changes in global climate and weather since the early 1990s. In 2005, Myles first proposed the concept of a global carbon budget: that peak warming is largely determined by the total amount of carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere, not the rate of emissions or the atmospheric concentration in any given year. He has long argued that fossil fuel producers should be central to the solution to climate change, rather than just part of the problem, which calls for policy innovation: e.g. https://go.ted.com/mylesallen. In 2010 he was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and in 2022 a CBE for services to climate change prediction, attribution and net zero. Myles is a Professor of Geosystem Science in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment and the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative.