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Róisín Moriarty

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1993-1756
20092025

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Biography

Dr Róisín Moriarty works on climate and policy and is based in University College Cork (UCC). While her research has focused on climate change and the carbon cycle, it is the synthesis and communication of scientific data for policy and other decision makers that has shaped her career.

Her current focus is the development of new integrated energy-land-food systems modelling tools that support long-term climate planning and improve the evidence base for climate policy.

Her research is focused on carbon budgets, carbon removal and modelling the synergies and trade-offs in the energy-land-food system. She is interested in transformative mitigation and adaptation that move us from imagining a climate-neutral, resilient and equitable futures to realising that transformation and its multiple benefits.

She has co-authored numerous academic papers, including a paper in Nature, a book chapter on carbon budgets and was a lead author on Climate Change Advisory Council Periodic and Annual Review Reports.

She worked as expert reviewer on greenhouse gas inventories technical reports for the UNFCCC (2018 to 2023).

Research Interests

Carbon cycle; terrestrial carbon sink; ocean carbon sink; greenhouse gas emissions and removals; agricultural methane emissions; carbon dioxide removal; land, food and energy systems interactions, synergies and trade-offs; forest carbon stores, risk, vulnerabilities and resilience.

External positions

Expert Reviewer, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Dec 2018 → Dec 2023

Climate Science & Policy Advisor, Climate Change Advisory Council, Ireland

Jan 2016 → Feb 2019

Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia

Feb 2013 → Jan 2016

Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Manchester

Sep 2009 → Feb 2013

Research Assistant, British Antarctic Survey

Nov 2008 → Feb 2009

Ecologist, Frugo Survey Limited

Feb 2005 → Jun 2005

Ecologist, Aqua-Fact International Services Ltd

Jun 2004 → Jul 2024

Research Assistant, University of Galway

Jun 2003 → Aug 2003

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Sustainability Institute

Other research affiliations

  • UCC Futures - Sustainability Institute

PhD Supervision

  • Available for PhD supervision

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  3. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  4. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  5. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  6. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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