Coleen Vogel
South African climatologist
Coleen Vogel is a South African climatologist involved in international work on climate change. She is a distinguished professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2009 she was the third winner of the Burtoni Award for her work.
Life
Vogel trained as a climatologist. She worked for the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where she became a distinguished professor in their Global Change Institute. She was the lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment Report Working Group 2 Chapter on Africa, and she chaired the International Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Climate Change.
In 2009 she was the third person chosen to receive the Burtoni Award.
In 2022 she published a warning with Francois Engelbrecht, Alize le Roux and Aimee-Noel Mbiyozo to say that South Africa needs to be better prepared for climate change. This followed the KwaZulu-Natal floods that killed at least 435 people, 40,000 others were homeless and 4,000 homes were destroyed. They conceded that floods of this size have happened before but the difference now was that the floods were happening more frequently due to climate change.
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