Co-Director at Climate Risk Lab & Chief Research Officer at ACDI (UCT). Climate change and Heritage; Education; Sport; Response Risk; IPCC AR7 Special Report on Cities & WGII
Nick Simpson
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Key ideas:
🌍 Climate impacts are already disrupting productive sectors
📉 Responses to climate change can “squeeze” vulnerable economies
📈 But a “green ease” is possible — with joined-up policy, fair finance, and inclusive trade
🧵 New paper out 📄
“Securing Structural Economic Transformation in a Climate-Changed World”
We explore how climate change is reshaping development pathways — not just through physical impacts, but also through the global response: trade rules, finance, and geopolitics.
Case studies: 🇪🇹 🇰🇪 🇯🇲 🇧🇩 🇰🇿
Link to full paper: odi.org/en/publicati...
with the brilliant colleagues at @odi.global @acdi.bsky.social - @jodiekeane.bsky.social, Nat Mason and Mark Miller
#ClimateRisk #Development #GreenTransition #GlobalSouth #ClimateJustice
National Climate Change Risk Assessment out now 👇🏽
Risk to current ecosystems VERY HIGH. Rick by 2050 VERY HIGH to SEVERE
🎽Most marathons (86% of the 221 global races analyzed) are expected to decline in odds of optimal running for either recreational or elite runners by 2045.
Check out the impacts on specific races using our interactive tool! 2/2
app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/mara...
This new video from @climateadam.bsky.social is even more brilliant than usual - insightful and hilarious 🧐🤣❤️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=py0X...