With this year’s UNFCCC COP getting underway in Brazil, we decided to take a look at some of the research and comment…
Sirkku Juhola joins PLOS Climate as co-Editor-in-Chief

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Sirkku Juhola to PLOS Climate as Co-Editor-in-Chief! Sirkku is professor of urban environmental policy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and also holds appointments at Linköping University, Sweden and at Western Norway Research Institute, Norway. Sirkku uses quantitative and qualitative methods to explore aspects of environmental policy and governance, with a particular interest in cities and urban areas.
Sirkku joins existing Editor-in-Chief Prof. Niklas Boers, our Executive Editor Dr Jamie Males, and our global team of Section Editors and Academic Editors as we continue to grow PLOS Climate‘s community.
While the scope of PLOS Climate remains broad and multidisciplinary, Sirkku is especially keen to encourage submissions on topics including:
Dynamics of socio-economic vulnerability
Multiple types of climate risk, interaction of drivers and impacts across systems
The role of digitalisation and artificial intelligence in climate policy
Evidence of the effectiveness of climate policy for mitigation and adaptation
Global climate negotiations and geopolitics