Stephen Cornelius

Steve joined WWF as WWF-UK’s Chief Adviser on Climate Change in 2015 and has worked at the interface of science and policy.  He has been a member of WWF’s international climate and energy leadership team and was the Network lead on issues around global warming of 1.5°C and our interaction with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  Steve led the production of several WWF flagship reports including on nature-based solutions and how wildlife is impacted by climate change.

Hailing from Australia, Steve has a PhD in Control Engineering from the University of Cambridge relating to pollution from cars.  He worked for an engineering consultancy on automotive pollution control for three years in the UK and Japan.  Steve then spent a decade in the British civil service working on climate change science, policy and as an UK and EU climate change negotiator at the international UNFCCC and IPCC climate talks where he covered issues ranging from mitigation, the Kyoto Protocol and forests and land use.