Dr. Peter Carter is founder of the Climate Emergency Institute. He has served as an expert reviewer for the International Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) fifth climate change assessment in 2014. He has also presented on climate change issues (especially the implications of global climate change on food security for the world's most vulnerable regions and populations) at science and policy conferences in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. He is a former family and emergency medicine practitioner.