Joëlle Gergis

Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer. She is an internationally recognised expert in Australian and Southern Hemisphere climate variability and change who served as a Lead Author on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on the Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report – the global authority on climate change science.

Joëlle is the author of three highly-acclaimed books: Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia; Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope, and Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia’s Future. Her book Humanity’s Moment, won the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Scholarly Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for a 2023 Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA), the 2023 Queensland Non Fiction Book Award, and the Penn Libraries 2024 Book Prize in Sustainability in the USA.

Joëlle has also contributed chapters to landmark climate literature anthologies including The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and On This Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing edited by Dave Witty.