521 journal articles, and has been cited 54,532 times. He is currently a Professor of Marine Studies at the University of Queensland. In 2010, Hoegh-Guldberg was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Global Change Institute, a collaborative research hub aimed to address the impacts of climate change. In 2017, Hoegh-Guldberg was one of the Chief Scientific Advisors to the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral. Following this, alongside the CEO of The Ocean Agency Richard Vevers, he started the 50 Reefs initiative to identify a number of reefs globally that have the best chance to survive the impacts of climate change and subsequently repopulate neighboring reefs. After releasing a study in March 2018 identifying 50 reefs, Bloomberg Philanthropies invested $86 million in the Vibrant Oceans initiative focused on protecting reefs across the planet. Hoegh-Guldberg has been an author of various IPCC reports, including being the coordinating lead author of the Oceans Chapter with fifth assessment published in 2014. On 8 October 2018, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, of which one of the findings was that we may have less than 12 years to avoid a temperature rise of over 1.5 °C. Hoegh-Guldberg was a Coordinating Lead Author of the report, and was a Coordinating Lead Author on Chapter 3: Impacts of 1.5 °C of Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems. In an interview with UQ News, he said "A key finding of the report is that 1.5°C is not a safe level of global warming; however it is much safer than 2.0 °C", and that "We are still going to see many challenges at 1.5°C". The IPCC report has been used as justification for climate action movements, including by Greta Thunberg. In the media Ove Hoegh-Guldberg has been featured in the media throughout his career, including two segments on Australian Story, The Heat Of The Moment (2009) and Into Hot Water (2017), and an interview on NPR's All Things Considered. He maintained a blog called Climate Shifts from 2007 to 2014 and has written articles for not-for-profit media outlet The Conversation. Hoegh-Guldberg has received opposition from some climate deniers in the media, notably conservative columnist Andrew Bolt at the Herald Sun. Bolt has published a number of columns against Hoegh-Guldberg's predictions. Hoegh-Guldberg wrote an article in response in 2011 countering these claims, saying Bolt has made fundamental scientific