Thomas Charles Rivett-Carnac OBE (born 1977) is a former political strategist for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
After positions at consultants CarbonSense and engineering firm Dyson, Rivett-Carnac joined CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) in 2006.
[5] In 2013 he was approached by Christiana Figueres[6] and shortly afterwards moved to Bonn, Germany in the position of Senior Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[7] His responsibility was the political strategy towards achieving binding international agreements.
[11] Rivett-Carnac is the co-host of the podcast Outrage and Optimism[12] and co-author of the bestselling book The Future we Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis.
[17] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to tackling climate change.