This report highlights 3 microbe-based innovations to help humans adapt to and sustainably mitigate climate change in terms of its pace and deleterious consequences.  

• Microbes for a non-fossil carbon economy.  
• Microbes for food security and ecosystem resilience. 
• Microbes for urgent methane mitigation. 

The scientific advisory group finds these solutions scientifically sound, economically sustainable, safe and scalable in a 5-15-year period. It is also confident that these solutions will promote social equity and societal well-being more generally, and that they can be tailored to the needs and capacities of local communities, countries and regions.

Scientific Advisory Group Members

• Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D. (Co-Lead), Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena and International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS). 
• Nguyen Nguyen, Ph.D., MBA (Co-Lead), American Society for Microbiology. 
• David E. Bloom, Ph.D., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 
• Charles Brooke, M.S., Spark Climate Solutions. 
• Alan Dangour, Ph.D., Wellcome Trust. 
• Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Ph.D., National Research University TIIAME. 
• Gigi Gronvall, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• Trevor Lawley, Ph.D., Wellcome Sanger Institute.
• Jay Lennon, Ph.D., Indiana University and American Academy of Microbiology.
• Ryan Morhard, J.D., Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
• Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 
• Raquel Peixoto, Ph.D., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).
• Pamela Silver, Ph.D., Harvard University.
• Lisa Stein, Ph.D., University of Alberta and Applied Microbiology International (AMI).