Detlef van Vuuren is one of the world’s leading climate modellers and, as a result, a high-profile focus of his life’s work – the “RCP8.5” scenario – has recently been targeted as “wrong, wrong, wrong” by Donald Trump.

Speaking to Carbon Brief at his office in the Hague, Van Vuuren cuts a serious, but relaxed figure – despite, momentarily, being caught in the white heat of global media attention following the social-media post by the climate-sceptic US president.

Leading a team of modellers at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the Dutch administrative capital, Van Vuuren also holds a professorship at the faculty of geosciences at Utrecht University.

Analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database reveals that, out of many thousands of researchers, he is the author most cited within all the reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1990.

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SYDNEY, Tuesday 23 JUNE 2026 — In response to today’s announcement from Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt regarding Woodside’s Browse project, the following comments can be attributed to Hannah Schuch, Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific:

“Woodside’s Browse proposal to drill at least 50 oil and gas wells at Scott Reef, risking precious marine life like turtles and whales, oceans and the climate, deserves the utmost scrutiny by government regulators.

“The Browse proposal is worsened by a disastrous carbon dumping plan that involves drilling an additional seven wells — an obvious environmental red flag, especially given the record of underperformance of projects like Chevron’s carbon dumping failure, Gorgon.

“The Department’s decision to validate and consult publicly on the Australian Conservation Foundation’s reconsideration request — to consider the impacts on the Great Barrier Reef from the 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon pollution that would result from Browse — lands the project in hot water.

“The case to reject Woodside’s ocean and climate-wrecking plans to drill at Scott Reef only continues to mount, and Minister Watt has an easy call to make: reject Browse and protect Scott Reef once and for all.”

—ENDS—

High res images and footage of Scott Reef can be found here

For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact Emma Sangalli on 0431 513 465 or emma.sangalli@greenpeace.org

Woodside’s Browse plans in “hot water” following administrative decisions by the federal Environment Minister and department

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