Christa Anderson

Christa Anderson is an environmental scientist and Director of Climate Science at World Wildlife Fund (WWF). At WWF, Dr Anderson has worked closely with the Science Based Targets Initiative and with companies setting climate targets in the land sector. Her research and publications focus on climate change mitigation approaches for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU). She was a contributing author to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report on Mitigation of Climate Change.

• BA in Environmental Studies and in History, Yale University, 2007
• MS in Environmental Science, Yale University, 2009
• PhD in Environment and Resources, Stanford University, 2018