Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta (born in Delhi, India) is a social scientist focusing on environment and development. She is Distinguished Professor of Climate Justice, Sustainability and Global Justice (
University of Amsterdam), and is also Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South and holds a water professorship at
IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education. She is the co-chair (2024-2025) of the UN Secretary General Appointed Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (10-Member-Group) - a component of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism. She is a Commissioner in the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, organized by
OECD, financed by the Netherlands Government (2022-24). She was Co-chair of the first phase of the Earth Commission (2019-2024), convened by
Future Earth and the Global Commons Alliance during which time 22 publications were achieved with a top publication in
Nature and in
Lancet Planetary Health. Along with
Johan Rockström, she did a plenary presentation of the Earth Commission results at the
World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2023. She also was co-chair of
UNEP’s
Global Environment Outlook-6 assessing knowledge on the environment and the
Sustainable Development Goals. The report and its Summary for Policy Makers were presented to the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) for endorsement by UN Member States at that assembly. The report received the Prose Prize. She was awarded the 2023
Spinoza Prize - the highest distinction in Dutch science and also called the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', the 2022 Piers Sellers prize for world leading contribution to solution-focused climate research, Priestley International Centre for Climate, the 2019
Prose Award for the GEO, the 2015 Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award for her Cambridge University Press Book: ''History of Global Climate Governance'', the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize as an
IPCC author, and the 2005 2nd
Zayed prize as a
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment author. In 2024 she did a concert on Climate Injustice in Four Seasons at the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. Her work has been made into a three dimensional art piece in the pop climate museum which the public can interact with. She is also featured in the ‘Prize Cupboard’ in the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave (museum of science) in Leiden.
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