Avit Bhowmik

Research
Dr. Avit Bhowmik is an Assistant Professor of Risk and Environmental Studies. He is the Lead Modeller of the Exponential Roadmap project and a Senior Research Fellow at Project Drawdown, both of which consolidate solutions and model their implementation strategies to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
His current research focuses on social tipping points for climate mitigation and sustainability transformation. He explores innovative and existing climate solutions, and studies how they could be implemented to exponentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and abruptly transform societies to sustainability. He also models the successful implementation pathways for UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is an author of the first Exponential Climate Action Roadmap Report released in the Global Climate Action Summit 2018. He is also an author of the first World in 2050 Report released in the UN High Level Political Forum in 2018.
Bio
Avit comes from a strong interdisciplinary background interfacing Environmental Health, Planning and Geoinformatics. He has a B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, a joint universities M.Sc. in Geospatial Technology from the European Union supported Erasmus Mundus program and a Ph.D. in Spatial Environmental Health from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
Publications
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Mark S. McCaffrey, Juliette Rooney Varga, 2022
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Rajchandar Padmanaban, Pedro Cabral, Maria M. Romeiras, 2022
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Mark S McCaffrey, Abigail M Ruskey, Chad Frischmann, Owen Gaffney, 2020
- Ilona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges, Roger Cremades, Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Richard J. Hewitt, Wolfgang Lucht, Johan Rockström, Franziska Allerberger, Mark McCaffrey, Sylvanus S. P. Doe, Alex Lenferna, Nerea Moran, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, 2020
- Lisa Jacobson, Jonas Åkerman, Matteo Giusti, Avit Kumar Bhowmik, 2020
- Ambreen Alamdar, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani, Saeed Waqar Ali, Mohammad Sohail, Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Alessandra Cincinelli, Marghoob Subhani, Bushra Ghaffar, Rizwan Ullah, Qingyu Huang, Heqing Shen, 2016
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Ana Cristina Costa, 2014
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Pedro Cabral, 2013
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, 2013
- Avit Kumar Bhowmik, M Samiul Islam, 2009
