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Science Editor @rtmcswee

Robert McSweeney

Science Editor SINCE August 2014

Robert McSweeney is our senior science editor. He holds an MEng in mechanical engineering from the University of Warwick and an MSc in climate change from the University of East Anglia. He previously spent eight years working on climate change projects at the consultancy firm Atkins.

LATEST BY Robert McSweeney
IPCC chair Jim Skea and IPCC vice-chairs Ramón Pichs-Madruga and Ladislaus Chang’a consult with WG II co-chairs and vice-chairs on 28 February 2025.

IPCC report timeline still undecided after ‘most difficult’ meeting in China

IPCC | 05.03.25

DeBriefed 21 February 2025: Brazil joins oil bloc ahead of COP30; US ‘pulled’ from IPCC meeting; Cooling cities with ‘smart’ surfaces

DeBriefed | 21.02.25

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024

Media analysis | 15.01.25
LA wildfires media reaction collage

Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change

Media analysis | 13.01.25

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world

Attribution | 18.11.24
Delegates huddle at COP29 in Baku.

Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP29?

COP29 Baku | 12.11.24

DeBriefed 16 August 2024: ‘Fire weather’ on the rise; Trump and Musk have ‘dumbest climate conversation of all time’; Hurricane hunting

DeBriefed | 16.08.24
A plenary at the IPCC meeting in Sofia on 27 July. Photo by IISD/ENB | Anastasia Rodopoulou

IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report

IPCC | 06.08.24
People check semi-processed biochar at a farm near Windhoek, Namibia.

Nine key takeaways about the ‘state of CO2 removal’ in 2024

Negative emissions | 04.06.24

DeBriefed 1 March 2024: EU’s ‘flagship’ nature law approved; Glaciers losing their climate ‘memory’; UN environment assembly resolutions

DeBriefed | 01.03.24

DeBriefed 2 February 2024: UK’s ‘slowing’ climate ambition; New top US climate diplomat; Surging methane from wetlands

DeBriefed | 02.02.24
IPCC delegates negotiating in a huddle in Istanbul, Türkiye.

IPCC: Governments split on ‘accelerated’ climate reports for next UN global stocktake

IPCC | 23.01.24

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2023

Media analysis | 10.01.24
Hero image for CONSTRAIN interactive article

Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit

Global temperature | 08.12.23
World Heads of States walk down Al Wasl avenue after their group photo during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP28?

UN climate talks | 01.12.23
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