Valerie Kapos is Principal Specialist in Nature-based Solutions at UNEP-WCMC. She helps to provide strategic direction for the Centre’s work on the role of ecosystems in climate change adaptation and mitigation, and in health and well-being, and leads its programme of work on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA).

Terikano has a degree on BA Environmental Management and is a Climate change planning officer at the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agriculture Development (MELAD) in South Tarawa, Kiribati. She’s passionate about nature-based solutions as an adaptation response to climate impacts.

A preeminent urban economics scholar in Latin America, holding a Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning from London School of Economics and Political Science. As head of MSc. in Urban Economics at Torcuato Di Tella University, and chair of Urban Policy Research Center, she leads cutting-edge research and education in climate adaptation and mitigation.

As a PhD candidate in the fields of geography and urban planning, my interests involve the organization of coastal areas, their evolution and the relationship between societies and their environment. I'm now working in collaboration with Sorbonne University and Artelia Group on the theme of managed retreat through urban planning.

Joshua Garland is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden. He currently researches climate adaptation through a cross-scale governance and power lens with particular emphasis on UK coastal communities.