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Keep calm and carry on having kids: the UN’s climate chief on eco-anxiety

he new head of the IPCC on the need to move beyond eco alarmism

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

Jim Skea has just taken on the most important job in climate science. As the new head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he is now in charge of the organisation that has done more than any other to build the international consensus that climate change is an existential threat to humanity.

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