Naomi Vaughan

Naomi Vaughan is an Associate Professor in Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA and a researcher in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at UEA. Her interest is in climate change mitigation – including ways to reduce emissions, ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere and how these actions achieve net zero and limit climate impacts. She is exploring particular technologies and practices for reducing and removing carbon emissions – including biomass energy carbon capture with storage, and afforestation (the large scale planting of trees).

One of her recent main projects was about assessing the feasibility of different carbon removal methods – and understanding the perspectives of the public, interested groups and industry on this. Naomi led the 4-year £2-million (NERC funded) project called Feasibility of Afforestation and Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage for Greenhouse Gas Removal (FAB-GGR).

As a winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Earth Sciences 2021 her current research is on how the feasibility issues of all carbon removal methods are communicated to policy decision makers.