UCL's COP26 Team

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Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value

"Government must seize the moment to create a new economy - one that is focused on the green new deal strategy of lowering carbon emissions, while also investing in workers and making sure they can adapt to new technologies"

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More about Mariana / Email Mariana
Twitter: @MazzucatoM

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Economics Expert and Science Communicator

"I look at the big picture of how we solve climate change. That is, what technologies and changes to society we need, and what policies can achieve those."

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More about Matt / Email Matt
Twitter: @mattwinning
Insta: @mattywin85

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Infrastructure for Resource Challenged Settings

"Clean technologies by itself will not solve the climate crisis. Just pathways for clean energy transitions in marginalised communities requires building financial resilience, gender inclusive solutions and improved understanding of socio-cultural factors."

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More about Priti / Email Priti
Twitter: @pritiparikh73 / @EfidUcl

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City Climate Action and Public Participation

"I work with local government decision-makers, grassroots communities and place-based organisations to reimagine city-level climate policy design processes that can collectively negotiate and develop just and transformative climate solutions."

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More about Ryan / Email Ryan
Twitter: @rbellinson

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Climate economist

"I provide evidence for the socioeconomic impacts of renewable energy investment, measuring the green economy by quantifying job creation, GDP growth etc. in a low-carbon future as opposed to business as usual."

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Email Lilia

Twitter: @LiliaCouto1

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Climate change adaptation policies

"I study what adapting to climate change means for policymakers and the type of governance innovations they need to address the most severe -and potentially irreversible- climate-related impacts."

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Email Elisa
Twitter: @elisa_calliari

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Climate Change Policy Processes, Human Security & African Politics

"My research looks at concepts of climate justice. How the climate change negotiations work, the agency vulnerable populations have within these policy processes, and how this translates to actual action at the national and local levels, in particular, on the African continent. I have also worked for or on UN projects for 15 years."

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Email Simon
Twitter: @SimonChinYee

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Resilient systems enthusiast. Advocate for Infrastructure as societal catalyst toward Net Zero.

"Both societally beneficial outcomes (e.g. economic prosperity) and sustainability challenges such as the Climate Emergent(cy), are emergent properties enabled by national Infrastructure. Systemic Transformation of National Infrastructure is urgently needed."

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More about Tom / Email Tom
Twitter: @itfctom

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Crop monitoring from space

"We can use new satellite systems to monitor crop status and predict yields around the world and contribute to global food security."

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Email Philip
Twitter: @prof_lewis 

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Loss and Damage negotiation 

"My research explores the role of evidence in the climate negotiations. Through my research, I gain insights in how evidence underpin the negotiation outcome. I focus specifically on Loss and Damage policy in the UNFCCC."

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More about Angelica / Email Angelica
Twitter: @ThinkAnge

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Indigenous Peoples’ Environmental Restoration and Reforestation

"Indigenous Peoples and local communities support and restore 80% of remaining biodiversity. Their lifeways do not harm our biosphere yet their voices and knowledge are absent from this vital debate."

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More about Jerome
Twitter: @FlourishDiverse / @CAOS_UCL

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Climate Change Governance

"My research supports policy-makers at the UN and national level to think about how best to respond to the negative impacts of climate change, also known as climate change loss and damage."

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More about Lisa

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Water and Climate Adaptation

"My research shows groundwater to be naturally resilient to climate change in the tropics and informs adaptive solutions in low-income countries to food and water security, and climate justice."

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More about Richard / Email Richard
UCL's spotlight on Richard

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Arctic Climate Change

"The Arctic is warming at three times the global average, and its ice is melting. I use state-of-the-art satellite data to inform politicians and the public about the emerging Arctic crisis."

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More about Robbie / Email Robbie 
Twitter: @robbiemallett

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Heritage and Museum Studies

"My research aims to inspire radical change in the heritage and museums sector to address the climate emergency."

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More about Rodney  /  Email Rodney
Twitter: @AHRCHeritage
Twitter: @climatemuseums
Website: museumsforclimateaction.org

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Earth observation for food security  

"By using satellite data to estimate and predict crop yield production at fine scale, our work helps to monitor climate-induced crop failures for developing countries."

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Email Qingling
Twitter: @qlwu 

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Heritage Science, Climate Resilience of Heritage

"Understanding the vulnerability of heritage in the face of climate change, and advocating for the role of heritage in climate adaptation."

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More about Scott / Email Scott
Twitter: @44orr

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Climate Law

"My research tackles the challenges that climate change raises for law. Law and legal institutions are important for accountability and certainty in a society, especially when faced with an unstable force like climate change."

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More about Sonam / Email Sonam
Twitter: @sonamg25

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Energy policy

"My colleagues and I work with academics and policy makers in low income countries to integrate climate change action into their development plans."

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Email Jim
Twitter: @watsonjim2 / @UCL_ISR