The Amazon River near Iquitos, Peru. I advance climate and ecosystem science to make sure our environmental commitments deliver for nature and people.
Climate change is intensifying faster than our response. We need to scale up action that works.
Mist over forested hills at dawn, Selangor, Malaysia.Forests recover from stress, until they can’t.
Detecting the critical slowing down before a forest tips, and mapping where the risk concentrates across the tropics.
Cultivated valleys among forested hills, Moc Chau, Vietnam.Helping people and ecosystems at once, and seeing who pays.
Finding where nature-based solutions genuinely work, and how their benefits and burdens are distributed.
Cleared ground meeting oil palm plantation, Johor, Malaysia.Carbon markets make promises. Can the evidence support them?
Stress-testing additionality, leakage, and permanence to find which instruments deliver durable outcomes.
A flux tower measures the carbon and water exchanged between forest and atmosphere, at Yangambi, DR Congo. I combine large-scale Earth observation with rigorous causal methods, so a claim about a forest, a carbon project, or a policy can be tested against what would have happened otherwise.
A channel through Amazon rainforest at golden hour, near Iquitos, Peru.“Indigenous leaders in Peru and Panama cited my research in advocating to conserve their lands.”
PNAS 2024 → advocacy letters to the ICVCM
My research has informed governments and global institutions, and just as meaningfully, the communities living closest to the forests it studies.
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Postdoctoral research fellow · Professorship for Earth System Modelling ·
Munich Climate Center, Technical University of Munich (TUM) ·
Department of Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Dr. Steve Hoong Chen Teo
