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Dr. Avit Bhowmik is an internationally recognized environmental scientist and climate solutionist. For the last 8 years, Avit has advanced research on rapid climate action and positive social tipping points. He contributed to the conceptual development of positive social tipping points as well as to identifying the scales to maximise the benefit of those tipping interventions.

Avit has published several scientific articles in highly ranked international peer-reviewed jounrals including in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). He played a key role in several reports and policy docemnts released in the Conference of the Parties (COP), Global Climate Action Summits and United Nations High Level Political Forums outlining pathways to exponentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and abruptly transform societies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Avit advises municipalities, bioregions and national and international scale industries and NGOs about strategising climate action and sustainability transformation plan.

Avit is an author of "".

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• . European Commission Erasmus+ Grant: 101056369. Collaborators: Glava Energy Centre, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Southern Denmark University and Gabrovo Municipality, Bulgaria
• MIRAI 2.0 seed funded project: DB 49_23. Collaborators: Linnaeus University, Sweden, Kyushu Universiy, Japan and Sophia University, Japan

Avit's current assignment and activities involve the following.

• Co-founder and Director, , with United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), , of University of Massachusetts Lowell and group of University of Southampton 
• Scientific Steering Committee Member,
• Scientific Adviser, , A business network of Forshaga and Munkfors municipalities in Sweden
• Adviser and Collaborator,
• Scientific Adviser, 
• Representative of ¹û¶³´«Ã½,

Avit comes from a strong interdisciplinary background interfacing Environmental Health, Planning and Geoinformatics. He has a B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from , a joint universities from the European Union supported Erasmus Mundus program and a Ph.D. in Spatial Environmental Health from the , Germany. After completing his Ph.D., Avit worked at , Earth-Doc network of the  with and , , Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and project of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He was also involved with as a Senior Researcher and as a lead modeller.

A conversation with Magnus Lindh as a part of the Transit - Training Paths for Adults on Sustainable Mobility project.

Press conference of the International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges at the Subsidiary Bodies Meeting and UNFCCC Climate Conference 2023.  

Värmlands Folkblad (in Swedish).

SVT Nyheter (in Swedish).

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Bhowmik, A., McCaffrey, M.S., Varga, J.R., 2022. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119, e2214975119.

Bhowmik, A.K., McCaffrey, M., Ruskey, A., Frischmann, C., Gaffney, O., 2020. . Environmental Research Letters 15. 

Otto, I.M., Donges, J.F., Cremades, R., Bhowmik, A., Hewitt, R.J., Lucht, W., Rockström, J., Allerberger, F., McCaffrey, M., Doe, S.S.P., Lenferna, A., Morán, N., van Vuuren, D.P., Schellnhuber, H.J., 2020. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 201900577.