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        Ploy Achakulwisut

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      • ploy.achakulwisut@sei.org
      • @climateploy
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      Ploy Pattanun Achakulwisut is a Research Fellow with SEI Asia. Her policy research and stakeholder engagement focuses on the climate, air pollution, and health impacts of fossil fuels and food systems. She co-leads SEI’s Carbon Lock-in Initiative and serves as a coordinating lead author and lead analyst of the Production Gap Report  series, which tracks the misalignment between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and the global levels consistent with the Paris Agreement. Her other projects include evaluating the health impacts and inequities of air pollution from oil and gas production and use, and assessing the public health implications of low-carbon diets. In 2020–2022, Ploy also served as a working group member of the Lancet Countdown US Policy Brief series. Ploy joined SEI US in 2019 and transferred to SEI Asia in 2023.

      Prior to joining SEI, Ploy was a postdoctoral scientist at The George Washington University. She has also served as a SustainUS youth delegate to the 2014 United Nations climate negotiations, led campaigns to engage youth and academics in climate advocacy, and published op-eds in outlets including The Guardian, Mashable, and Scientific American. Her research and advocacy led to her being named in 2019 as one of Grist Magazine’s “50 Fixers ”, an annual list of “emerging leaders from across the US who are working on fresh, real-world solutions to our planet’s biggest challenges.”

      Ploy holds BA and MSci degrees in natural sciences (chemistry) from the University of Cambridge, and MA and PhD degrees in atmospheric and climate sciences from Harvard University.

      Non-SEI publications by Ploy Achakulwisut

      • ResearchGate Profile

      Op-eds by Ploy Achakulwisut

      • Climate change is a public health emergency. Here are 8 reasons why. (Scientific American)
      • The missing maths: the human cost of fossil fuels (The Guardian)
      • You marched for science and climate action. Now what? (Mashable)

      Publications by Ploy Achakulwisut

      • A just transition in the meat sector: why, who, and how?
      • Una transición justa en el sector de la carne: ¿por qué, quién y cómo?
      • Open letter: Experts call on governments to include animal welfare in sustainable development governance
      • Carta abierta: Expertos piden a los gobiernos que empiecen a incluir el bienestar animal en la gobernanza del desarrollo sostenible
      • Carta aberta: Especialistas pedem que governos comecem a incluir o bem-estar animal na governança para o desenvolvimento sustentável
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      Perspectives by Ploy Achakulwisut

      • Seven priorities for COP27
      • Three observations on how to cut fossil fuels and hold the window open for Paris goals
      • It's time to move beyond "carbon tunnel vision"
      • It's time to hold governments to task for fossil fuels they permit
      • Covid-19 recovery can help unlock Southeast Asia’s fossil fuel reliance and build climate resilience for all

      Featured stories with Ploy Achakulwisut

      • SEI scientists to UK: How to account for the "production gap” in future oil and gas leasing decisions
      • World governments must take immediate steps to close the fossil fuel production gap
      • Four takes on what US President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate should deliver

      Projects and tools with Ploy Achakulwisut

      • Animal welfare and sustainable development
      • Just transitions in the livestock sector
      • Iniciativa SEI sobre Carbon Lock-In o bloqueo de carbono
      • SEI Initiative on Carbon Lock-In
      • SEI Initiative on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
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