Mike Berners-Lee
Mike Berners-Lee (2023)
Born	1964 (age 61–62)
Education	University of Oxford Bangor University Sheffield Hallam University
Notable works	How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything (2010)
Relatives	Mary Lee Woods (mother) Conway Berners-Lee (father) Tim Berners-Lee (brother)

Mike Berners-Lee is an English researcher and writer oncarbon footprinting. He is a Professor in Practice atLancaster University^[1] and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the university.^[2] His books includeHow Bad are Bananas?,^[3][4]The Burning Question,^[5]There Is No Planet B^[6] andA Climate of Truth,^[7] and he is a contributing author toThe Climate Book created byGreta Thunberg. He is considered an expert oncarbon footprints.^[8]

He was born in 1964 and is the son ofMary Lee Woods andConway Berners-Lee, who were both mathematicians and computer scientists. One of his brothers is computer scientist SirTim Berners-Lee,^[9] who invented theWorld Wide Web.

He graduated in physics fromUniversity of Oxford in 1986, gained aPGCE in Physics and Outdoor Education atBangor University in 1988, and has a master's in Organisation Development and Consulting fromSheffield Hallam University (2001).^[10] He has been a Professor in Practice at Lancaster University since 2016.

Berners-Lee has pioneered carbon accounting of upstream carbon emissions from supply chains, known as scope 3 emissions, to assess the full greenhouse gas emissions of products. His work at Small World Consulting has combined Process-basedLife Cycle Analysis withEnvironmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis to achieve both a system-complete estimate of the supply chain and specificity in key areas.^[11] He is also a leading researcher in assessing the full climate impacts of current and emerging ICT.^[12]

His research has also examined the climate emissions from food and land-use, concluding that global food production can meet humanity's nutritional needs but only with a radical shift in dietary choices, so that less land is used for the relatively inefficient production of animal products with high greenhouse gas emissions, and more land is used to produce plant-based foods direct for human consumption.^[13][14]

• Berners-Lee, Mike (2010).How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything. Profile.ISBN 978-1-84668-891-1.
  • Second edition:Berners-Lee, Mike (2020).How bad are bananas?: the carbon footprint of everything (New ed.). London: Profile Books.ISBN 978-1-78816-381-1.
  • "Updated North American" edition:Berners-Lee, Mike (2022).The carbon footprint of everything. Vancouver: Greystone Books.ISBN 978-1-77164-576-8.
  • Berners-Lee, Mike (2024)Peut-On Encore Manger des Bananes? [How bad are bananas?] (in French) Translated by Bertrand Guillot (1 ed) France. ISBN 9789998772403
• Berners-Lee, Mike; Clark, Duncan (2013).The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit?. Profile.ISBN 978-1-78125-045-7.
• Berners-Lee, Mike (2019).There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years. Cambridge UP.ISBN 978-1-108-54596-9.
• Berners-Lee, Mike (2022). "How [Not] to Buy". InThunberg, Greta (ed.).The Climate Book. Allen Lane.ISBN 978-0-241-54747-2.
• Berners-Lee, Mike (2025).A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How to Get It. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-009-44006-6.OCLC 1473687765.

• Burning Question website
• "Climate change and carbon footprinting — an interview with Mike Berners-Lee". Croner-i. Retrieved1 January 2019.

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