Coleen Vogel is a South African climatologist involved in international work on climate change. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2009 she was the third winner of the

Burtoni Award The Burtoni Award was created in 2003 by a group of leading experts and policy makers in the field of climate change. It is named for the Canadian science pioneer Ian Burton. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding contributions to the science of a ...

for her work.

Life

Vogel trained as a climatologist. She worked for the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where she became a Distinguished Professor in their Global Change Institute. She was the lead author for the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) a ...

4th assessment Report Working Group 2 Chapter on Africa, and she chaired the International Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Climate Change.South African researcher takes top climate change award
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 30 June 2010 In 2009 she was the third person chosen to receive the Burtoni Award. In 2022 she published a warning with Francois Engelbrecht, Alize le Roux and Aimee-Noel Mbiyozo to say that South Africa needs to be better prepared for climate change. This followed the KwaZulu-Natal floods that killed at least 435 people, 40,000 others were homeless and 4,000 homes were destroyed. They conceded that floods of this size have happened before but the difference now was that the floods were happening more frequently due to climate change. She had previously argued after the 2021 heat wave for better preparations noting the need to keep good communication with the global north and that Africa and its universities needed to get more involved. Vogel is an acknowledged expert in South African Disaster Management being involved in creating green proposals and white papers and in assisting with the Disaster Management Act. In 2022 she was the City of Johannesburg's lead for Adaptation and climate change.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, Coleen Living people South African climatologists Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand University of the Witwatersrand alumni Women climatologists Year of birth missing (living people)