Andy Reisinger is a researcher and independent consultant specialising in the science-policy interface of climate change. He has just completed an 8-year term as vice-chair of Working Group III (Mitigation) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and previously served as lead author for several reports prepared by the IPCC. He currently is also one of eight Commissioners on He Pou A Rangi, the New Zealand Climate Change Commission, which is an independent expert body providing advice on adaptation and mitigation policies to the government. In a former life Andy used to work as landscape photographer and is moonlighting as writer of the occasional haiku about climate change.