KIM NICHOLAS
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Short Bio

Prof. Kimberly Nicholas is a sustainability scientist at Lund University in Sweden. She has published over 55 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals; writes for publications such as Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist; and is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, and the monthly climate newsletter We Can Fix It. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across  public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Her work has been featured by outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, WIRED, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today. Born and raised on her family’s vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.  

Press

  • Serve as expert commentator to media on climate and sustainability issues for over 100 interviews per year (press highlights). 
  • Quotes since August 2022 include The Washington Post, BBC, WIRED, NBC, Politico, and Grist. 
  • Featured in profiles and Q&As including Elle, New Scientist, Independent, Outside, Science, Grist and Scientific American.   
  • Recent podcast appearances include Volts with David Roberts (how to free cities from cars), Public Radio International: The World (my Five Stages of Radical Climate Acceptance), Vox’s Future Perfect (ethics of having a child in the climate crisis). (Interview playlist.)
  • Lund University Delegate to UNFCCC Conference of the Parties: 2015 (Paris), 2017 (Bonn).
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Swedish Press

  • Frequent source for leading Swedish-language media, including feature article in Dagens Nyheter; our work cited in editorials (9 Sept, 17 Sept) around the national elections. 
  • Collaborated with national public service journalists for a four-part radio series on Radio Sweden, Kims Klimatval (Kim’s Climate Vote), where I as a climate scientist, new Swedish citizen, and first-time Swedish voter interviewed the climate spokesperson from each of Sweden’s eight political parties in Parliament before the 2018 election. 
  • Live fact-checked and assessed climate debates by members of Swedish and European Parliament ahead of national and EU elections.  
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Longer Bio

Dr. Kimberly Nicholas is Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund, Sweden’s highest-ranked university.

She is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World (Putnam/Penguin Random House, March 2021), and writes for publications including Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, New Scientist, Decanter, and Carbon Brief. Her monthly newsletter with actionable, evidence-based advice for facing the climate crisis with facts, feelings & action, We Can Fix It, has over 4,000 subscribers. 


In her research, she studies the connections between people, land, and climate, with the goal of stewarding ecosystems to support a good life for everyone alive today, and leave a thriving planet for future generations. She has published over 55 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals. Her research has been honored with the Innovation in Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America and as one of the top five Milestone articles published in Environmental Research Letters since 2005. Her professional mission is to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, and to inform, empower, and inspire ordinary people to join Team Climate. 

She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across  public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Recent engagements have included keynotes for Stanford Founders' Circle (donors who have given over $1 million to the University), the Swedish Association of Museums, and livestreamed events for thousands of people, such as the launch of a new European Union Climate Action program, and as a featured guest on a New Scientist webinar. 
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Her research has been featured in outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, WIRED, 
National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today, and she has been profiled in Elle, New Scientist, Science, and The Guardian. 
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Born and raised on her family’s vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.  

Her current research projects include a collaboration with the Municipality of Lund to radically reduce climate pollution; The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground, studying the flight-free movement in Sweden; and using digital communication to improve traveler satisfaction with public transport. She recently concluded a five-year investigation of sustainable food systems in Europe, including the first comprehensive mapping of €61 billion of annual public spending under the Common Agricultural Policy.

She has taught courses in the LUMES masters' program including Earth Systems Science, focused on climate science and solutions; Rural Systems and Sustainability; Quantitative Methods in Sustainability Science; and Writing for Change. 
She recently co-taught the course "Storytelling for Science in the Climate and Ecological Emergencies." She served as Director of PhD Studies at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) from 2019-2021, and has mentored 37 masters' students, as well as half a dozen PhD students and several postdocs. 
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    • Flying Less >
      • The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground
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      • Ingen ny tid för avgång
      • Academics Flying Less
    • Radically Reducing Lund's Emissions
    • Climate Solutions >
      • What Can I Do? 2 >
        • What Can I Do?
        • High School Teaching Materials
        • Fyra klimatsmarta livsstilsval
        • Press Release: 4 Lifestyle Choices That Most Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
        • The Climate Mitigation Gap: Study & Video Abstract
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      • Climate Science 101
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        • IPCC Report on 1.5°
        • Kims Klimatval
        • COP21 (Paris Agreement)
      • Farmer adaptation
      • Harnessing biodiversity
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      • Global land use
      • European farming systems
      • Swedish land use
      • Ecosystem Services & OPERAs
      • REDD+
      • Land Acquisitions
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      • Urban Food Forestry
      • Local food in Iceland
      • One Great Meal
      • Dietary choices & climate change
      • Crop yields & climate
    • Wine, Climate, & Sustainability >
      • Wine & Climate: Impacts & Solutions
      • Wine Diversity for Climate Adaptation
      • Wine yields & quality under climate change
      • Farmer climate adaptation
      • Vineyard ecosystems & landscapes
      • European Wine Case Studies (OPERAs)
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