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Woodwell Climate Research Center (formerly Woods Hole Research Center) is an organization of renowned researchers who work with a worldwide network of partners to understand and combat climate change. Woodwell Climate brings together hands-on experience and 35 years of policy impact to find societal-scale solutions that can be put into immediate action. The Center aims to advance scientific discovery and seeks science-based solutions for the world’s environmental and economic challenges through research and education.[1]

The Center conducts research around the globe, connecting with local leaders and decision makers in more than 20 countries, from the Arctic to the Amazon. All of Woodwell Climate's work is designed to inform policy or answer policy questions. Woodwell Climate has about 70 staff members.

The Center's Gilman Ordway Campus, located on Cape Cod in the town of Falmouth, was completed in 2004.[2] The 19,300 sq ft (1,790 m2) building is composed of a renovated summer estate (ca. 1874) and a new wing. The campus is energy neutral, with renewable power generated by a 100 kW wind turbine and several photo-voltaic power systems.[3]

Mission
Woodwell Climate's mission is to advance scientific discovery and seek science-based solutions for the world's environmental and economic challenges through research and education.

Vision
Woodwell Climate’s vision is a world where everyone understands how climate change is affecting the planet and takes urgent action to safeguard the future of life on Earth.

History
Woodwell Climate Research Center (then Woods Hole Research Center) was established in 1985 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts by George Woodwell.[4][5] Woodwell Climate was one of the first organizations dedicated to fighting global climate change. The Center conducts research on a range of strategies to immediately address climate change, from natural carbon sequestration solutions that include the Earth’s forests and soils, to climate risk assessments that shift public perception and corporate behavior.

In 1986, George Woodwell testified to Congress in 1986 about the dangers of sea level rise and global warming.[6]Woodwell Climate helped launch the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, first adopted in 1992, and has contributed to every annual assessment report that has followed.[7]

In 2005, Dr. John P. Holdren became the director and he continued to lead the organization until he was appointed as President Obama's science advisor in 2009. Holdren returned to Woodwell Climate as a senior advisor in 2017 after President Obama left office.[8][9] The organization's current president, Dr. Philip Duffy, was formerly the White House National Science and Technology Council’s Senior Advisor to the U.S. Global Change Research Program.[10][11]

In 2019, a partnership between Woodwell Climate Research Center, Wellington Management, and the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) resulted in the first-ever guidelines for corporate disclosure of physical climate risk.

Awards
In 2007, Woodwell Climate scientists shared in the Nobel Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The International Center for Climate Governance named Woodwell Climate Research Center (then Woods Hole Research Center) the world's top climate change think tank for four years in a row—2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.[12] -- until the award was discontinued. The award was based on quantitative and analytical data, including activities, publications and dissemination.[13]