Steve Davis

Steve Davis is a Professor of Earth System Science 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 member of the Technical Council of the Science Based Targets Initiative and serves as Chair of the Science Advisory Board at the sustainability software startup Watershed. He holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the University of Florida.