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Steve Davis is a highly-cited researcher and expert in earth system science, emissions and energy scenarios, climate impacts and solutions, and corporate climate strategy. He is currently Professor of Earth System Science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Chair of the Science Advisory Board at Watershed. At Stanford, Steve leads the Sustainable Solutions Lab, a research group dedicated to quantifying how different human activities are affecting climate and air quality, how those environmental changes in turn jeopardize human wellbeing, and the relative priority of solutions. He and his group have published seminal papers assessing carbon emissions and air pollution impacts embodied in international trade, committed emissions related to existing energy infrastructure, the economic and biophysical limits of various carbon removal approaches, interactions among food-energy-water systems, drivers of agriculture and land-use change emissions, and the key challenges and opportunities for net-zero emissions energy systems.Steve was a Contributing Author of two Working Group III chapters in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project, was the Lead Author of the Mitigation chapter in the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment, and is a member of the Technical Council of the Science Based Targets Initiative. Steve took leave from academia in 2022 to serve as Head of Climate Science at Watershed, leading the company's carbon experts in developing methodologies to measure customers’ emissions, prioritizing decarbonization efforts, and vetting reduction and removal options offered in the Watershed Marketplace. He now chairs Watershed's Science Advisory Board, convening and engaging a group of top experts in GHG accounting, climate mitigation, and carbon removal on behalf of the company.Prior to his science career, Steve worked as a lawyer to venture-backed companies in Silicon Valley, and holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Virginia School of Law and the University of Florida, where he double-majored in Political Science and Philosophy.Steve regularly appears in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, Washington Post, The New Yorker, MIT Tech Review, Bloomberg, Fast Company, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, and Reuters. He represents Stanford University and Watershed through speaking appearances and blogs.Follow Steve on Twitter @davis_stevenj

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