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Steven J. Davis

Steven J. Davis

· Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Energy Science and Engineering

Stanford University · Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Active 1975–2026

h-index101
Citations48.8k
Papers438210 last 5y
Funding$1.9M

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Steven J. Davis is a Professor of Earth System Science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He is a highly-cited researcher and expert in earth system science, emissions and energy scenarios, climate impacts and solutions, and corporate climate strategy. He leads the Sustainable Solutions Lab, a research group dedicated to quantifying how different human activities affect climate and air quality, and how these environmental changes impact human wellbeing and the prioritization of solutions. Davis has contributed to major international and national climate assessments, serving as a Contributing Author for two Working Group III chapters in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and as the Lead Author of the Mitigation chapter in the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment. He also serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project and is a member of the Technical Council of the Science Based Targets Initiative. Prior to his career in science, he worked as a lawyer for venture-backed companies in Silicon Valley. He 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.

Research topics

  • Environmental science
  • Geography
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Natural resource economics
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Meteorology
  • Environmental protection
  • Agroforestry

Selected publications

Recent grants

Frequent coauthors

  • Philippe Ciais

    Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

    248 shared

  • Zhu Liu

    126 shared

  • Bo Zheng

    Tsinghua University

    119 shared

  • Yilong Wang

    Chinese Academy of Sciences

    81 shared

  • Frédéric Chevallier

    CEA Paris-Saclay

    72 shared

  • Kebin He

    Tsinghua University

    71 shared

  • Chaopeng Hong

    Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute

    70 shared

  • Dabo Guan

    Tsinghua University

    70 shared

Labs

  • Sustainable Solutions LabPI

    Current researchers, postdocs, and students — and the alumni now leading their own labs and groups.

Education

  • PhD, Geological and Environmental Science

    Stanford University

    2008

  • JD, School of Law

    University of Virginia

    2001

Awards & honors

  • Contributing Author of two Working Group III chapters in the…
  • Serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Ca…
  • Lead Author of the Mitigation chapter in the U.S. Fifth Nati…
  • Member of the Technical Council of the Science Based Targets…

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