Professor of Geography at University of Exeter. Research across the social and natural sciences on adaptation to climate change, political economy, human security, public health and demography. Collaborates with scientists globally and currently co-leads a major investigation of migration as adaptation to climate change with colleagues across South Asia.

Carlos is Associate Professor in Affective Science and Social Interaction at De Montfort University. Research on the study of facial behaviour, social influence, and emotions.

Sergio is a social scientist focussed on field-based research on adaptation in island communities using collaborative and participatory approaches to advance bottom-up framings that benefit communities.

Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Queensland University of Technology. Research on populations impacted by and adapting to changing climate through planned relocation. Research across the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, and Maldives on adaptation, planned relocation, sustainable livelihoods, immobility, and tourism.

Sarah is an interdisciplinary social scientist specialising in development studies, economics, and human geography. Her research examines climate impacts on rural livelihoods to address poverty and food insecurity. As a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter, she contributes to the SUCCESS project, focusing on climate adaptation and mobility.

Social psychologist and lecturer at the Open University at the intersection of social psychology, human geography, and environmental sciences. Research on how extreme weather and rising sea levels intersect with group dynamics and social and place-based identities. Research on individual and collective wellbeing, behaviour change, and community resilience and engagement.

Senior Livelihood and Migration Specialist at ICIMOD. She is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner working at the intersection of human mobility and migration, sustainable development, and climate adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya with a particular emphasis on science-policy interface, gender equity, local knowledge systems, and anticipatory planning and adaptation.

Professor of Geography at University of Exeter. Research across the social and natural sciences on adaptation to climate change, political economy, human security, public health and demography. Collaborates with scientists globally and currently co-leads a major investigation of migration as adaptation to climate change with colleagues across South Asia.

Kelsey Doerksen is finalising her PhD at the University of Oxford focusing on the uses of AI and Machine Learning to enable science discovery and understanding of climate-focused applications. I am also building the data pipeline infrastructure and providing analysis necessary to create the UNICEF Children's Climate Risk Index. Dr Nick Simpson is Chief Research Officer in Complex Climate Change Risk in the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town. He is an IPCC author working on climate risk to heritage, education and sport and how we can best respond to climate change across these. Florian Reiner’s research is focused on using remote sensing to study non-forest trees in dryland ecosystems, identification of nature based solutions, and quantifying the exposure of schools and learners to extreme climate events in order to better inform adaptation planning for schools. Tom Slaymaker is Chief of the WASH Data Unit and Climate and Environment Data Unit at UNICEF. Over 25 years of experience working on water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa and Asia and currently co-leads the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP). Akanksha has been working extensively bridging the gap between education and climate change practice, policy and research. She is leading large scale research studies on the climate education nexus bringing her expertise in causal inference and systems methodologies to build the evidence on what works for climate change and education. Diana Reckien is Associate Professor Climate Change and Urban Inequalities, University of Twente, the Netherlands. She works at the interface of climate governance and urban research. Diana was CLA of IPCC AR6 WGII and currently leads the equity/justice chapter of the Third Assessment Report for Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.3).