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Beyond Adaptation - Equitable Adaptation & COP30 Leadership

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Beyond Adaptation
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Bealey 2

Speaker

Dr Katherine Browne
Research Fellow
Stockholm Environment Institute

Role of adaptation finance in enabling equitable and effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change: challenges, gaps and opportunities

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Katherine Browne is a Research Fellow and lead for the International Climate Risk and Adaptation team at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Her research focuses on climate finance, adaptation, and inequality.
Dr Deepal Doshi
Postdoc Researcher
LMU Munich

Role of adaptation finance in enabling equitable and effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change: challenges, gaps and opportunities

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Prof. Matthias Garschagen holds the chair in Human Geography and Human Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). His research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change. He has been an author in several IPCC reports. Katherine Browne is a Research Fellow and lead for the International Climate Risk and Adaptation team at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Her research focuses on climate finance, adaptation, and inequality. Dr Pia Treichel is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development. A practitioner-turned-researcher, Pia’s work focuses on improving the adaptation options of the world’s most vulnerable people, informed by her decade of experience working on climate change in the international development sector. Dr Timo Leiter is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE. He has participated in the UN climate change negotiations for ten years and currently co-leads the UNFCCC expert group on developing global adaptation indicators. He is a lead author of UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the IPCC AR6 WGII.
Prof Matthias Garschagen
Professor
LMU Munich

Role of adaptation finance in enabling equitable and effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change: challenges, gaps and opportunities

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Prof. Matthias Garschagen holds the chair in Human Geography and Human Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). His research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change. He has been an author in several IPCC reports.
Dr Timo Leiter
Distinguished Policy Fellow
London School of Economics and Political Science

Role of adaptation finance in enabling equitable and effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change: challenges, gaps and opportunities

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Dr Timo Leiter is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE. He has participated in the UN climate change negotiations for ten years and currently co-leads the UNFCCC expert group on developing global adaptation indicators. He is a lead author of UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the IPCC AR6 WGII.
Dr Pia Treichel
Senior Researcher, Climate Finance
International Institute for Environment and Development

Role of adaptation finance in enabling equitable and effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change: challenges, gaps and opportunities

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Dr Pia Treichel is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development. A practitioner-turned-researcher, Pia’s work focuses on improving the adaptation options of the world’s most vulnerable people, informed by her decade of experience working on climate change in the international development sector.
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