François-Marie Bréon

François-Marie Bréon is a physicist and climatologist at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences. His initial specialty was the use of satellites to observe and understand Earth’s climate. He subsequently explored other topics, particularly Earth’s energy balance and the carbon cycle, and contributed to the writing of the chapter “Natural and Anthropogenic Radiative Forcings” in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, as well as the “Summary for Policymakers.”
He served as a visiting professor at the Collège de France during the 2024–2025 academic year, where he taught a course on climate change.