UCL's COP26 Team
Anthony Costello
Expertise
Climate Change and Health
"We work through the Lancet Countdown for Climate and Health Action to bring the health impacts to the world’s attention. With the new WHO UNICEF Children in All Policies programme, we work with adolescents and young people to collect information to build local climate resilience."
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Twitter: @globalhlthtwit
Jacquie McGlade
Expertise
Carbon and Natural Capital Markets, Community-led Climate Adaptation, Bioenergy and Plastics
"Using a new data analytics tool to provide high resolution, consistent, scalable, accurate measurements of soil carbon and natural capital remotely and unlocking global investment in nature based climate solutions."
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Twitter: @JacquieMcGlade
Mark Maslin
Expertise
Climate Change
"The most important thing you can do to help save our planet is talk about the climate crisis. By talking, we find like-minded people, and together we will find the solutions."
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Twitter: @ProfMarkMaslin
Insta: @profmarkmaslin
Interviews / talks
Owen Jones YouTube show
Back Story with Dana Lewis
TEDx talk
Mariana Mazzucato
Expertise
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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Twitter: @MazzucatoM
Matt Winning
Expertise
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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Twitter: @mattwinning
Insta: @mattywin85
Priti Parikh
Expertise
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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Twitter: @pritiparikh73 / @EfidUcl
UCL experts part of country delegations
Shin-Ichi Ohnuma (Japan)
Expertise
Global public engagement, negotiation and governance
"Global vision and global negotiations are important for the achievement of a sustainable society. The education of the next generation is key for success."
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Tristan Smith (Tonga)
Expertise
Decarbonisation of shipping
"Shipping accounts for 2-3% of our CO2 emissions, and is due to grow. We work on estimating the role of efficiency, wind, hydrogen as solutions. As well as the industry and policy changes needed to drive their uptake."
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Twitter: @tristanps
Jhenelle Williams (Jamaica)
Expertise
Coastal ecosystems
"Climate change has initiated urgency in developing countries like Jamaica. As an early career scientist at the ICENS, I utilize nuclear techniques to investigate the impact of climate change on the marine ecosystem."
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Simon Lewis (Gabon)
Expertise
Global carbon cycle; tropical forests; deforestation; climate change; nature-based solutions; restoration.
"Led the mapping and discovery of the world’s largest tropical peatland in 2017, in the centre of the Congo Basin, which stores 30 billion tonnes of carbon (equivalent to 3 yrs of fossil fuel emissions; Dargie et al. 2017, Nature). Led long-term monitoring from tropical forests, showing they are a globally significant long-term carbon sink; then in 2020 showed that this sink capacity is saturating (Hubau et al. 2020 Nature)."
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Twitter: @simonllewis
Other Experts
Ryan Bellinson
Expertise
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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Twitter: @rbellinson
Lilia Couto
Expertise
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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Twitter: @LiliaCouto1
Elisa Calliari
Expertise
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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Twitter: @elisa_calliari
Simon Chin-Yee
Expertise
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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Twitter: @SimonChinYee
Tom Dolan
Expertise
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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Twitter: @itfctom
Philip Lewis
Expertise
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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Twitter: @prof_lewis
Angelica Johansson
Expertise
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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Twitter: @ThinkAnge
Jerome Lewis
Expertise
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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Twitter: @FlourishDiverse / @CAOS_UCL
Lisa Vanhala
Expertise
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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Richard Taylor
Expertise
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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Robbie Mallett
Expertise
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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Twitter: @robbiemallett
Rodney Harrison
Expertise
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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Twitter: @AHRCHeritage
Twitter: @climatemuseums
Website: museumsforclimateaction.org
Qingling Wu
Expertise
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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Twitter: @qlwu
Scott Alan Orr
Expertise
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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Twitter: @44orr
Sonam Gordhan
Expertise
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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Twitter: @sonamg25
Jim Watson
Expertise
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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Twitter: @watsonjim2 / @UCL_ISR