This builds on his work on climate justice published in Nature Climate Change (with a commentary published in the same journal). The purpose of this research was to produce an accessible, powerful and modular framework to guide the use of justice concepts in climate research, especially for modelling and scenario-building communities. This research helped guide his contributions to the Irish Government’s Carbon Budgets Working Group.

“Having done research in many universities, there is no beating Princeton for the quality of interdisciplinary work and the focus on climate change,” Mintz-Woo said. “The ability to interact with policymakers at SPIA and the depth of scientific research at HMEI were catalytic in my development. I am very lucky that UCHV was able to facilitate this postdoctoral research, without which I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

This is the first time that a philosopher has been awarded this prestigious award by UCC.