Stephan Singer

Dr Stephan Singer, German, works for CAN I secretariat since 2016. CAN community has more than 1500 members globally composed of environmental, developmental, science, regional and local CSO. Stephan is Senior Advisor Climate Science and Global Energy Policy. He is a regular external reviewer of the IPCC documents and the IEA World Energy Outlook. Stephan works with his team und strong science-based policy in line with equity and a Just Transition for deep global emission reductions in this decade until 2030 of 50%, in line with a 1.5°C trajectory and a net-zero planet by latest 2050. The works focus on a rapid growth of sustainable renewables (mainly solar, wind, geothermal), combined with strong energy efficiency; and the halting of ecosystem and forest destruction, restoration of degraded ecosystems as the primarily most important policies to reduce our carbon legacy in the atmosphere. CAN community works in alliances with others from the indigenous populations, trade unions, progressive industries, faith groups and academia. CAN strongly supports the call by developing countries for significant growth of climate funding to poor countries for both adaptation and mitigation to climate change. Before joining CAN, Stephan was working for WWF, GIZ and as a free-lanced journalist.