Independent Standards Board Member
Professor and Director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab, Stanford University
Steve Davis is a Professor of Earth System Science and Director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, where he researches 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, as well as global and regional drivers of land-use emissions, and the opportunities and challenges for net-zero emissions energy systems. He is a Highly-Cited Researcher (2020-present), 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 Chapter Lead of the Mitigation chapter in the recently published Fifth National Climate Assessment and is Chair of the Science Advisory Board at the climate tech startup Watershed. He holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the University of Florida.