World Wildlife Fund Chief Scientist Dr. Rebecca Shaw
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Dr. Rebecca Shaw is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President at WWF. She works with experts around the world to identify the emerging challenges to WWF’s mission and advance scientific inquiry to develop strategic solutions to those challenges. She leads WWF’s Global Science team whose research agenda informs WWF’s global conservation framework and identifies tools critical to achieving WWF’s goals. She has been published widely in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Science and Nature and is the recipient of numerous awards for her academic and non-academic work. She was also a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report focused on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.
Dr. Shaw holds an M.A. in environmental policy and a Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley.
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| 0:00.0 | Well hello and welcome to another episode of Can You Talk Real Quick, where I call |
| 0:06.5 | up an expert gas to have a conversation, turn around as quickly as I can as it relates |
| 0:11.2 | to something happening in the world. |
| 0:13.3 | And this is a good one. |
| 0:14.3 | From the World Wildlife Fund, today it's Dr. Rebecca Shaw. |
| 0:18.4 | Because did you know that yesterday, Tuesday, July 4th, hottest day ever recorded, with |
| 0:23.1 | the average global temperature reaching 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit, according to data from |
| 0:27.5 | the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. |
| 0:29.9 | The previous record was reached one day earlier, Monday, as heat waves scorch multiple regions |
| 0:36.0 | across our planet. |
| 0:38.2 | Here in our country, millions of people have been under excessive heat warnings in the south |
| 0:42.6 | and west of the country. |
| 0:43.8 | Meanwhile, wildfire smoke from Canada continues to plague large sections of the U.S., wildfires |
| 0:49.3 | are also burning in Colorado and Washington state. |
| 0:52.3 | Joining me now to talk about it all is the Chief Scientist and Senior President at |
| 0:56.3 | the World Wildlife Fund, worldwildlife.org, Dr. Rebecca Shaw. |
| 1:01.3 | She works with experts around the world, identifying the emerging challenges to WF's mission |
| 1:05.8 | and advance science inquiry to develop strategic solutions to those challenges. |
| 1:11.2 | He leads their global science team as research agenda informs the global conservation framework |
| 1:16.5 | and identifies tools critical to achieving WF's goals. |
| 1:19.3 | She's been published widely in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals of science, nature, |
| 1:24.0 | and she's the recipient of numerous awards for academic and non-academic work. |
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