“Please go to your breakout room”: researching negotiations through hybrid and digital spaces
This blog explores the content of a poster created for the Royal Geographical Society Conference in August 2024.
Fostering accountability: insights from civil society in Nepal
With its diverse landscapes and vulnerability to climate risks, Nepal stands at the forefront of adaptation action. This blog reflects on a roundtable discussion on the importance of accountability in adaptation in Nepal.
Including local voices in assessing adaptation finance: testing a scorecard approach
Finance is central to international agreements on climate change but there is a gap in making sure funds meet those mot affected. This blog reflects on alternative tools for building local accountability.
Watching climate politics
Climate politics is seen in the media through big annual meetings around the world. But there is a quieter side to negotiating climate change. What can we learn from conducting digital ethnography of these processes?
COP28: we need more accountability in adaptation
After early progress on the loss and damage fund and announcements on energy and health from COP 28 in Dubai, attention in the corridors in week 2 is turning to adapting to the impacts of climate change.
COP28 agreement on adapting to climate change kicks the real challenge down the road
The world is rapidly running out of time to limit temperatures to this level – a crucial threshold for many communities living in low-lying islands and delicate ecosystems such as coral reefs.
Can we change our future through performance?
The findings around extreme heat are for a collaboration between our research programme on the role of knowledge in adapting to climate change, and the Wise Ram Theatre.