The Climate Emergency Institute
The Climate Emergency Institute (CEI) is an independent, non-partisan climate science education organization founded in 2009 by Dr. Peter Carter. The institute provides expert analysis of climate science for public education, media, and policy audiences.
CEI was established in response to the urgent need for clear, accurate, and scientifically grounded communication about the climate emergency. At a time when the gap between what climate science shows and what the public and policymakers understand remains dangerously wide, CEI works to bridge that gap.
Dr. Peter Carter — Founder and Director
Dr. Peter Carter is a retired Canadian physician turned climate scientist and policy analyst. He has a background in environmental health protection policy and has published on global climate change science, climate change impacts, Arctic climate change, risk assessment, and biodiversity.
Peter has presented at many leading science and climate change conferences, including at both the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference and the European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference.
As a founding director of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Peter represented CAPE on federal and provincial expert panels making submissions on environmental health protection policy (1994-1998).
He served as an IPCC Expert Reviewer for the full Fifth Assessment Report (AR5, 2014) and the full 1.5ºC Special Report (2018).
Since 2019, Peter has been on an online expert panelist for the Climate Emergency Forum.
Our Mission
CEI’s mission is to provide comprehensive, science-based public education about the climate emergency, its causes, consequences, and potential responses. We do not advocate for specific political parties, but we do advocate urgently for science-based policy action proportionate to the emergency.
- Accurate interpretation of IPCC reports and peer-reviewed science
- Focus on what the science actually says, not political consensus
- Emphasis on risks and dangers that are systematically underweighted in public discourse
- Education on the full scope of consequences — ecological, social, and civilizational
- Analysis of solutions and their adequacy to the scale of the emergency
The Book: Unprecedented Crime
Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Over for the Climate (2018) by Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth documents how fossil fuel interests, media, and government failure have combined to suppress climate science and delay action. Available from Clarity Press.
Unprecedented Crime (2018)
Co-authored by Dr. Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth, published by Clarity Press. Documents the coordinated suppression of climate science and the case for accountability. Available from Clarity Press and major book retailers.