Beyond Adaptation - Equitable Adaptation & COP30 Leadership
Tracks
Beyond Adaptation
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
Speaker
Katherine Browne
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 PMBiography
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 PMBiography
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.
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 PMBiography
Dr. Deepal Doshi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on questions of urban risk, adaptation finance and risk governance – particularly in the Global South. She is also a Chapter Scientist in the IPCC’s upcoming Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.
Prof. Matthias Garschagen
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 PMBiography
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.
Timo Leiter
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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 PMBiography
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 PMBiography
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 Aline Angotti Carrara
Researcher
Tohu
COP30 - Movers and Shakers What to Expect?
4:30 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Aline dreams of the collapse of oppressive systems and fights for collective action. She works at the intersections of activism, research, advocacy, and identify primarily as a human ecologist. Her experience with policy analysis, project design and management, strategic planning, aims to establish conservation-driven cross-sector partnerships.
Dr Aline Angotti Carrara
Researcher
Tohu
COP30 - Movers and ShakersWhat to Expect?
4:30 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Aline dreams of the collapse of oppressive systems and fights for collective action. She works at the intersections of activism, research, advocacy, and identify primarily as a human ecologist. Her experience with policy analysis, project design and management, strategic planning, aims to establish conservation-driven cross-sector partnerships.
Leila Figuereido
Arquipelago Verde
COP30 - Movers and ShakersWhat to Expect?
4:30 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
She is a science communicator. Originally a biologist with experience in ethnobiology and ecology, Leila holds a PhD in Development Studies, with a focus on political ecology in the Brazilian Amazon. She discusses socio-environmental issues through social media and presents a podcast focused on environmental justice, climate change, and political literacy.
Pasang Sherpa
University of British Columbia
COP30 - Movers and ShakersWhat to Expect?
4:30 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia. Her research applies community-based approach to explore possibilities of collective survival on warming planet. It builds on her long-term ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home and in the diaspora and her extensive study of human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas.
Karen Suassuna
UN International Trade Centre
COP30 - Movers and ShakersWhat to Expect?
4:30 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
With 20 years of experience on the field of socioenvironmental and development policies, Karen have dedicated her career to promote social change in the field of Climate Change specifically in developing countries, with great challenges in environmental protection and social inclusion.
