UEA has an enviable reputation for the range, scope, high quality and longevity of its climate research.
ClimateUEA marks a new chapter in the university’s remarkable climate history, and as momentum builds towards the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, the theme is playing a crucial role in developing and sharing new climate-related research in support of the negotiations.
Media Enquiries
The following team of experts attending COP26 are available for media work. In addition we have a large pool of world class researchers working on climate-related themes open to opportunities. Please connect with colleagues directly, or get in touch with Cat Bartman, News and Media Manager.
For all other COP26 enquiries, please contact Dr Natalie Porter, ClimateUEA Executive Officer at climate@uea.ac.uk.
UEA Academics attending COP26
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Dr Dorothee Bakker, Reader, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: D.Bakker@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @Dorothee_BakkerAttending COP26 in Week 1
Dr Bakker is part of the Integrated Carbon Observation System European Infrastructure Consortium (ICOS ERIC). Dr Bakker chairs the SOCAT global group - SOCAT is a Global Ocean Observing System, with more than 100 contributors. Her brief: the ocean takes up a quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This uptake varies over time (between years and decades) for reasons that we do not fully understand. It is unclear how ocean CO2 uptake will respond when we move towards net zero. Measurements of (surface) ocean CO2 and their synthesis are therefore key for determining ocean CO2 uptake, now and in the future. However, funding for these measurements and their synthesis (eg. www.socat.info; www.glodap.info) is precarious.Research/expertise: processes affecting the air-sea transfer of natural long-lived greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide) and the marine carbon cycle in a changing climate. Currently Dr Bakker is investigating carbon cycling in UK shelf seas and the Southern and Arctic Oceans. She is a co-author of this year’s Global Carbon Budget paper (for SOCAT synthesis of ocean CO2 measurements).
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Dr Rachel Carmenta, Lecturer in Climate Change and International Development, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and School of International Development
Email: R.Carmenta@uea.ac.uk
Skype: raycarmenta
Twitter: @RachelCarmentaAttending COP26 in Week 1
3 November Scaling-up justice and social equity in the design of fire-free peat land governance
5 November From empirical research to policy opportunity: peat fire management with social equity at the centre
6 November Presenter in Global Landscapes Forum: Measuring what matters: capturing human well-being impacts of integrated landscape approachesResearch/expertise: tropical fire (Indonesian peat lands and Brazilian Amazon), rural livelihoods, biodiversity, well-being, climate change/fire links, governance/NBS and justice. Her work has resulted in these YouTube animations explaining the Amazons burning crisis.
Read one of Dr Carmenta’s recent papers: Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics - ScienceDirect -
Dr Neil Dawson, Research Fellow, School of International Development
Email: Neil.Dawson@uea.ac.uk
Skype: Leastweasel
Twitter: @NeilMDawsonAttending COP26 in Week 2
8 November Sustainable, Just And Climate-Resilient Futures Through Indigenous Perspectives And Practices (INDIS)
11 November An Indigenous Dialogue about Knowledge and Resilience for the 21st Century
12 November Indigenous Stories of Sustainable Development
Research/expertise: poverty, wellbeing and environmental justice among rural populations, particularly poor and marginalised social and ethnic groups, in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America. Dr Dawson’s most recent study looked the at the success of conservation projects:
• Indigenous and local communities key to successful nature conservation
• Conservation works better when local communities lead it, new evidence shows (theconversation.com) -
Prof Emma Gilberthorpe, Professor of Anthropology, School of International Development
Email: E.Gilberthorpe@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @emmagilberthorpAttending COP26 in Week 2
8 November Sustainable, Just And Climate-Resilient Futures Through Indigenous Perspectives And Practices (INDIS)
11 November An Indigenous Dialogue about Knowledge and Resilience for the 21st Century
12 November Indigenous Stories of Sustainable Development
Research/expertise: social and cultural aspects of development; the social, economic, political and environmental impacts of mining.
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Dr Matthew W Jones, Research Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and School of Environmental Sciences
Email: Matthew.W.Jones@uea.ac.uk
Web: mattwjones.co.uk
Twitter: @Jones_MattWAttending COP26 in Week 1
Dr Jones is attending for the launch of the 2021 Global Carbon Budget, the annual update on carbon emissions.Research/expertise: the global carbon cycle and in particular the role of landscape fires and fossil fuel combustion in this cycle. Dr Jones’ research focuses on the global and regional trends in wildfire and deforestation fire activity seen in satellite observations and models and the implications of these trends for carbon storage on land.
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Prof Corinne Le Quéré FRS, Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: communications@uea.ac.uk
Attending COP26 in Week 1
Prof Le Quéré is attending with France's High Council on Climate, which she chairs, and with the ‘Friends of COP26’, a group of international experts advising the UK government.
Prof Le Quéré is also part of the team launching the 2021 Global Carbon Budget.Research/expertise: Interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle; the strength of the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide and how it evolves in a changing climate; emissions of CO2 and their socio-economic drivers; the impact of COVID-19 on carbon emissions.
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Asher Minns, Executive Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Email: A.Minns@uea.ac.uk
Attending COP26 for the two weeks
Twitter: @AsherMinns / @TyndallCentrePublic engagement lead for the COP26 Universities Network and coordinating the Network’s Green Zone Exhibition Stand.
Expertise: public engagement and science communication.
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Prof Rupert Read, Associate Professor, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Email: R.Read@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @RupertReadAttending COP26 for the two weeks
Prof Read will be at FacingFutureTV press conferences on topics such as ‘Youth activists’, ‘Interfaith dialogue on climate’, ‘Transformative and deep adaptations’, and ‘Has COP26 succeeded’. 31 October Facing Future: Transforming Our Lives in the Face of Crisis
3 November Facing Future: Youth Activist
6 November, appearing on ‘We Don't Have Time’ broadcast. Building Momentum for Change. (17.15)
11 November Transformative Adaptation: What happens if COP fails?Research/expertise: the Precautionary Principle and philosophy of science. Prof Read recently took part in a BBC programme on climate and the value of nature, with fellow UEA academic Steve Waters.
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Dr Iokiñe Rodríguez, Associate Professor in Environment and Development, School of International Development
Email: I.Rodriguez-Fernandez@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @iokirodAttending COP26 from 7-10 November
8 November Sustainable, Just And Climate-Resilient Futures Through Indigenous Perspectives And Practices (INDIS)
11 November An Indigenous Dialogue about Knowledge and Resilience for the 21st Century
12 November Indigenous Stories of Sustainable Development
Research/expertise: local environmental knowledge and conflict transformation in Latin America using participatory action-research.
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Prof Heike Schroeder, Professor of Environmental Governance, School of International Development
Email: H.Schroeder@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @HeikeSchroederAttending COP26 for Week 2, from 7 November
Prof Schroeder is attending as principle investigator for the INDIS project on Indigenous visions of sustainable development & climate resilience. The team will be showing how Indigenous knowledge might contribute towards national and international targets for climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development. The value of Indigenous knowledge is often ignored by policy-makers, and Indigenous Peoples themselves have few opportunities to articulate and share their knowledge in a way that can impact policy making circles and strengthen sustainable futures. The project’s Indigenous partners from three countries (Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and Bolivia) will be presenting their own visions for just and environmentally sensitive futures. 8 November Sustainable, Just And Climate-Resilient Futures Through Indigenous Perspectives And Practices (INDIS)
11 November An Indigenous Dialogue about Knowledge and Resilience for the 21st Century
12 November Indigenous Stories of Sustainable Development
The project will also have a slot in the IASS Pavilion in the Blue Zone in Week 2 covering findings/outputs.
Research/expertise: global environmental politics, forest governance and REDD+, the international climate negotiations, urban climate governance, indigenous peoples/knowledge and sustainable development.
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Federica Di Palma, Honorary Professor, Norwich Medical School, Professorial Fellow in Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences
Email: F.Di-Palma@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @ScienceisGlobalNorwich Institute for Healthy Aging
Attending COP26 for the two weeks
Prof Di Palma is attending with the GROW Project which will be exhibited in the Eden Project pavilion throughout their presence at COP. Entitled “Good planets are hard to find” the Eden exhibition highlights projects from around the world that are helping to find solutions to the climate change challenge. 5 November Humming for change
10 November Planet as Shelter: Planet as environmental regeneration for environmental regeneration
12 November Hot topics in the tropicsResearch/expertise: local environmental knowledge and conflict transformation in Latin America using participatory action-research.
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Prof Charlie Wilson, Professor in Energy and Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: Charlie.Wilson@uea.ac.uk
Attending COP26 for the two weeks
4 November Launch of the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub
11 November Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS)Research/expertise: Research interests lie at the intersection between innovation, behaviour and policy in the field of energy and climate change mitigation, working at both a systems level and at a micro level. At a systems level, Charlie works on long-term energy transitions both historically and into the future. At a micro level, Charlie works on technology adoption and diffusion, low-carbon behaviours and lifestyles, and the effectiveness of behaviour change interventions.
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Prof Trevor Davies, Emeritus Professor, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: T.D.Davies@uea.ac.uk
Attending COP26 for Week 1
1 November Cold Regions Warming- The Transitions Art-Science ExhibitionResearch/expertise: Professor Davies’s research has included the wet and dry deposition of atmospheric pollutants, and the links between the atmospheric transport of air pollution and meteorology and climate systems.
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Dr Nick Brooks, Visiting Research Fellow, Climate Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: Nick.Brooks@uea.ac.uk
Attending COP26 in Week 2
8 November Climate Colonialism and Climate Justice: the Case of Western SaharaResearch/expertise: human-environment interaction in the Mid-Holocene.
UEA COP26 Showcase Events
Facing Future: Transforming Our Lives in the Face of Crisis
Professor Rupert Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Glasgow Scotland, Scottish Event Campus (SEC), PC2 - Durdle Door in the East Lomond Suite
Sunday 31 October 2021
15:15
The session will argue that Transformative and Deep Adaptation is what we need. Any incremental/defensive adaptation should only occur within that overarching frame of seeking to transform our systems, on the basis of an ethics of unity, of us all ultimately being in this together, and to prepare for the worst.
https://www.facingfuture.earth/transforming-our-lives-in-the-face-of-crisis
Cold Regions Warming- The Transitions Art-Science Exhibition (joint event with UNESCO)
Prof Trevor Davis, Emeritus Professor, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences.
Exhibition in front of the Science Pavilion (adjacent to the Cryosphere Pavilion and the Water Pavilion), Blue Zone.
Monday 1 November
The Transitions Art-Science Climate Change Project originated in Norwich with Professor Trevor Davies and artist Gennadiy Ivanov. It is now part of the Global Water Futures research programme which is directed by Professor John Pomeroy of the University of Saskatchewan. The Transitions exhibition Cold Regions Warming was shown throughout the first “Leaders Day” on November 1 in the high-level Blue Zone at COP26. It had a prominent position in front of the Science Pavilion (organised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the World Meteorological Organisation, and the UK Met Office). It was immediately adjacent to the Cryosphere Pavilion and the Water Pavilion. In the evening, a presentation was featured at the party opening of the Cryosphere Pavilion, introduced by the Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO.
Scaling-up justice and social equity in the design of fire-free peat land governance
Dr Rachel Carmenta
Organizer and Speaker: Session in UN Peat Pavilion
Wednesday 3 November
13:00-14:30
Hybrid event
Physical: Blue Zone, Hall 4, SEC
Virtual: bit.ly/2ZvblB9
Short-lived or unnoticed effects of the haze crisis in Indonesia? Assessing mental health effects and people’s perception of the causes of the 2019 haze crisis.
Facing Future: Youth Activists
Professor Rupert Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Scottish Event Campus (SEC), PC2 - Durdle Door in the East Lomond Suite, Glasgow
Wednesday 3 November
17:00
Join Rupert Read as he engages three youth activists Luisa Neubauer, Meera Dasgupta and Ecem Albayrak on their goals and activities.
Global Carbon Budget Launch and Update
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science
COP26 Blue Zone - UN/IPCC Science Pavilion
Glasgow Science Centre
Thursday 4 November
09.15-10.30
COP26 Green Zone - COP26 Universities Network Stand
Glasgow Science Centre
Thursday 4 November
14.00-16.00
As energy transformation accelerates, it is critical to keep track of how they lead to changes in country and global CO2 emissions and their partitioning in the environment. Professor Corinne Le Quéré, one of the senior members of the Budget team and Dr Matthew Jones, Research Fellow (School of Environmental Sciences and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) will be at the stand in person to provide updates of the Global Carbon Budget.
Launch of the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub
Prof Charlie Wilson
Speaker: Session in UNFCCC Pavillion, Blue Zone
Thursday 4 November
16:00-17:00
Accelerating uptake of the next generation of climate solutions and a 21st century innovation ecosystem: Opportunities in the 4th industrial revolution
Find out more about the 21st century climate innovation assessment.
From empirical research to policy opportunity: peat fire management with social equity at the centre
Dr Rachel Carmenta
Peat Pavilion
Presenter in IPS session: Peatland Partnerships in Climate Change Mitigation and Nature Recovery
Friday 5 November
11:30-13:00
Humming for Change
Federica Di Palma
Embassy Colombia Pavilion
Friday 5 November
The British Embassy in Colombia and Prof Di Palma have collaborated on an activity which showcase Raising Awareness through their GROW Living Maps programme.
Living Maps of Colombia gives a voice to school children to talk about their perception and connection with nature and their concerns about their surrounding environment.
Measuring what matters: capturing human well-being impacts of integrated landscape approaches
Dr Rachel Carmenta, Presenter
Global Landscapes Forum
Saturday 6 November
16.00-17.30
Dr Rachel Carmenta is an environmental social scientist specialising in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of environment and development, environmental risk and the relationship between place and well-being. A central strand of Rachel's work focuses on the tropical wildfire complex - a leading environmental challenge at the interface of social and natural systems.
Sustainable, just and climate-resilient futures through Indigenous perspectives and practices (INDIS)
Professor Heike Schroeder, Professor of Environmental Governance, Professor Emma Gilberthorpe, Dr Iokine Rodríguez and Dr Neil Dawson.
COP26 Green Zone - COP26 Universities Network Stand
Glasgow Science Centre
Monday 8 November
13:00 - 14:30
Indigenous knowledge has the potential to inspire innovations to contribute towards national and international targets for climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development. However, this knowledge if often invisible or ignored in national and international policy making. Furthermore, Indigenous Peoples themselves often have little opportunities to articulate and share this knowledge in a way that can impact policy making circles and strengthen their own visions of a sustainable future. Through the INDIS project, Indigenous organizations from 3 countries (Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and Bolivia) have been reflecting since 2018 on their own way of life and their turbulent experiences with environmental, economic and social policies, to present their own visions for just and environmentally sensitive futures.
Climate Colonialism and Climate Justice: the Case of Western Sahara
Dr Nick Brooks
Glasgow Film Theatre
Monday 8 November
11:45-13:15
This session will explore how climate action is used by Morocco to entrench its illegal occupation and bolster its green credentials, and how the Sahrawi people are systematically excluded from international climate finance and governance mechanisms, increasing their vulnerability and inhibiting their ability to adapt. It will examine the Sahrawi vision for climate action, and the centrality of self-determination for tackling climate injustice.
Planet as Shelter: Planet as environmental regeneration for environmental regeneration
Federica Di Palma
Wednesday 10 November
Prof Di Palma has been invited by CEO of EIT Climate-KIC and EIT Climate-KIC Foundation to participate in a panel session for the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub. Federica has been asked to participate in the panel session entitled “Planet as Shelter: Planet as environmental regeneration for environmental regeneration”, and speak on the topic of biodiversity.
Transformative Adaptation: What happens if COP fails?
Professor Rupert Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Renfield Centre in Bath Street, Glasgow
Thursday 11 November
13:00
What will it mean if COP fails, and how should we respond? Could this be an opportunity to facilitate a huge awakening of climate-consciousness and a shift toward transformative adaptation? And if so, what would this look like?
Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS)
Prof Charlie Wilson
Speaker/Panelist: Session in Japan Pavilion, Blue Zone
Thursday 11 November
13:00-14:30
As research commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the EDITS (Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations) project, which analyses technological and social innovations in the energy demand sector and conducts model intercomparisons, is being implemented by RITE, IIASA and other international partners. At this event, the importance of technological and social innovations in the energy demand sector, and the potential achievements of a low energy demand society that can be induced by the innovation in the significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable development in the world will be discussed. This seminar will also introduce you to the research scope and provisional analyses/evaluations of the EDITS project.
More information:
An Indigenous Dialogue about Knowledge and Resilience for the 21st Century
Professor Heike Schroeder, Professor of Environmental Governance, Professor Emma Gilberthorpe, Dr Iokine Rodríguez and Dr Neil Dawson.
IASS Pavilion
Thursday 11 November
14:30-16:00
Indigenous knowledge has the potential to inspire innovations to contribute towards national and international targets for climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development. However, this knowledge if often invisible or ignored in national and international policy making. Furthermore, Indigenous
Peoples themselves often have little opportunities to articulate and share this knowledge in a way that can impact policy making circles and strengthen their own visions of a sustainable future. Through the INDIS project, Indigenous organizations from 3 countries (Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and Bolivia) have been reflecting since 2018 on their own way of life and their turbulent experiences with environmental, economic and social policies, to present their own visions for just and environmentally sensitive futures.
Indigenous Stories of Sustainable Development
Professor Heike Schroeder, Professor of Environmental Governance, Professor Emma Gilberthorpe, Dr Iokine Rodríguez and Dr Neil Dawson.
Indigenous Peoples Pavilion
Friday 12 November
10:00-11:00
Indigenous knowledge has the potential to inspire innovations to contribute towards national and international targets for climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development. However, this knowledge if often invisible or ignored in national and international policy making. Furthermore, Indigenous Peoples themselves often have little opportunities to articulate and share this knowledge in a way that can impact policy making circles and strengthen their own visions of a sustainable future. Through the INDIS project, Indigenous organizations from 3 countries (Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and Bolivia) have been reflecting since 2018 on their own way of life and their turbulent experiences with environmental, economic and social policies, to present their own visions for just and environmentally sensitive futures.
Hot topics in the tropics
Federica Di Palma
GROW Colombia panel at Eden digital event
Friday 12 November
Prof Di Palma will lead a panel discussion which will include Colin Martin-Reynolds, British Ambassador to Colombia and Ana María Hernández, Chair of IPBES, to speak about the ambitions for COP26.
Part of the Festival of Discovery
UEA researchers working within COP26 presidency themes
Dr Patrycja Klusak, Lecturer in Banking & Finance, Norwich Business School
Affiliated Researcher at Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge
Email: P.Klusak@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @PatrycjaKlusak
- Research/expertise: how climate change risks have and could affect sovereign ratings; the effect of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics on firm ratings. Her recent working paper looked at the potential effect of climate change on sovereign credit ratings for 108 countries:
Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness (cam.ac.uk)
How will climate change affect public finances and sovereign risk? - Economics Observatory
Prof Corrado Di Maria, Professor of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, School of Economics
Email: C.Di-Maria@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: Research interests span environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, the economics of growth and development as well as technological change. The key feature of his work is an emphasis on both theoretical and empirical aspects, as well as its policy relevance.
Prof Jean McNeil, Professor of Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Email: J.McNeil@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @jeanmcneilwrite
- Research/expertise: Much of Prof McNeil’s work - fiction, non-fiction, poetry - is about the environment and climate change, with a particular interest in the polar regions. Together with Prof Steve Waters and Dr John Gordon, also from UEA, Prof McNeil has been leading a new programme on communicating climate change to young people in the run-up to COP26, working with concepts and practices Prof Waters developed in his recent BBC series The Song of the Reed and Murmurations.
Jason Chilvers, Professor of Environment and Society and Chair of the Science, Society and Sustainability Research Group (3S) in the School of Environmental Sciences.
Email: Jason.Chilvers@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: public participation and engagement with energy and climate change. As a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Jason leads its Public Engagement Observatory which is mapping the diverse ways that citizens are engaging with energy, climate change and net zero on an ongoing basis. His recent co-authored paper in Nature Energy sets out A new direction for public engagement with energy and climate change.
Prof Nitya Rao, Professor of Gender & Development, School of International Development
Email: N.Rao@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: gender analysis of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, for example:
Study examines women’s ability to adapt effectively to climate change - UEA
Aayushi Awarthy, PhD researcher, School of Economics
Email: A.Awasthy@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: electrification in India. During her PhD she’s also completed a fellowship with the International Energy Agency looking at gender issues around energy use and energy use by women. Aayushi previously worked closely with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and was part of the energy modelling group that informed the country’s climate pledge following the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Aayushi is the host of a new UEA podcast series addressing key issues around the climate crisis in the run up to COP26. In the series she speaks to some of the leading voices in the climate debate to discover what obstacles remain in our way and discuss how the different elements of the climate crisis – from activism to technology, through finance and politics – can contribute to a solution. Listen to: Why haven't we solved it yet? podcast (uea.ac.uk)
Prof Konstantinos Chalvatzis, Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Norwich Business School, Academic Chair of ClimateUEA, Research Group Member, Innovation, Technology and Operations Management
Email: K.Chalvatzis@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @KJChalvatzis
- Research/ expertise: brings together technology policy and corporate strategy. He looks at energy security, energy policy and how climate change impacts them both.
Most of his work focuses on electricity, innovation in the energy sector, system-wide electrification and their potential for rapid decarbonisation. This includes smart grids, energy storage and the role of energy in the sustainability performance of corporate organisations.
ScienceDirect: Sustainable resource allocation for power generation: The role of big data in enabling interindustry architectural innovation
ScienceDirect: The social perspective on island energy transitions: Evidence from the Aegean archipelago
Dr Gareth Edwards, Associate Professor in Geography & Development , School of International Development
Leverhulme International Fellow & Visiting Fellow, Sydney Environment Institute
Email: Gareth.Edwards@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: Issues around climate justice and the just transition; coal and climate change. In 2021-2022 he is working on a Leverhulme International Fellowship project entitled ‘Just coal? Examining how climate justice is mobilised in support of coal’. The fellowship examines the case for ‘just coal’ and the implications it has for climate justice theory, climate policy and the justice of the energy transition.
Aayushi Awarthy, PhD researcher, School of Economics
Email: A.Awasthy@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: electrification in India. During her PhD she’s also completed a fellowship with the International Energy Agency looking at gender issues around energy use and energy use by women. Aayushi previously worked closely with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and was part of the energy modelling group that informed the country’s climate pledge following the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Aayushi is the host of a new UEA podcast series addressing key issues around the climate crisis in the run up to COP26. In the series she speaks to some of the leading voices in the climate debate to discover what obstacles remain in our way and discuss how the different elements of the climate crisis – from activism to technology, through finance and politics – can contribute to a solution. Listen to: Why haven't we solved it yet? podcast (uea.ac.uk)
Pierre Bocquillon, Doctor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies and Tyndall Centre for Climate Research
Email: P.Bocquillon@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: Issues around the external dimension of EU’s energy and climate policies, the politics of renewable energy promotion and the democratic governance of energy and climate change.
Tom Hargreaves, Associate Professor, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: Tom.Hargreaves@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: How different types of sustainability innovation – from ‘smart’ home technologies to grassroots social innovations like community energy initiatives – operate in everyday settings and situations, and how attempts to govern everyday life impact on patterns of societal engagement.
Prof Rachel Warren, Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology, School of Environmental Sciences and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Email: r.warren@uea.ac.uk
Skype: rachelwarren77
- Research/expertise: impacts of climate change on biodiversity; IPCC author; policy relevant science related to climate change and sustainability; Integrated assessment modelling of climate change, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainability in the context of the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels; climate change impacts on ecosystems and species.
Dr Silvia Ferrini, Senior Research Fellow, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: S.Ferrini@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: environmental and resource economics. Dr Ferrini is a member of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at UEA, working on the GROW Colombia project, which aims to preserve, restore and manage Colombian biodiversity through responsible innovation. The work will be featured at COP26 by its UK partner The Eden Project in the Eden Pavilion. On November 1 the pavilion will be specifically highlighting the work being carried out in Colombia.
Prof Corrado Di Maria, Professor of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, School of Economics
Email: C.Di-Maria@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, the economics of growth and development as well as technological change. Prof Di Maria is a member of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at UEA, working on the GROW Colombia project, which aims to preserve, restore and manage Colombian biodiversity through responsible innovation. The work will be featured at COP26 by its UK partner The Eden Project in the Eden Pavilion. On November 1 the pavilion will be specifically highlighting the work being carried out in Colombia.
Dr Christa Brunnschweiler, Associate Professor in Economics, School of Economics
Email: C.Brunnschweiler@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @CBrunnschweiler
- Research/expertise: natural resource (revenue) management, including behavioural change for better management, recently also looking at coastal ecosystem (mangroves, saltmarshes) restoration for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Dr Johanna Forster, Lecturer in Environment & International Development School of International Development
Email: j.forster@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: social and political issues of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage; community resilience and adaptation in coastal and marine dependent areas (eg livelihoods and fisheries), islands and hazards (coastal), and social vulnerability. Recently co-authored this article with Dr Nem Vaughan on the issues around carbon removal: A global carbon removal industry is coming – experts explain the problems it must overcome (theconversation.com).
Dr Nem Vaughan, Associate Professor in Climate Change, School of Environmental Sciences and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Email: N.Vaughan@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @nemvaughan
- Research/expertise: greenhouse gas removal; technologies and practices that aim to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Currently the Principal Investigator of a NERC funded four-year consortium project on the Feasibility of Afforestation and Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage for Greenhouse Gas Removal. Recently co-authored this article with Dr Johanna Forster on the issues around carbon removal: A global carbon removal industry is coming – experts explain the problems it must overcome (theconversation.com).
Dr Phillip Williamson, Honorary Reader, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: P.Williamson@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: climate geoengineering role of the ocean in the climate system; and 'blue carbon' offsetting.
Elise Droste, PhD researcher, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: E.Droste@uea.ac.uk
Twitter: @Elise_Droste13
- Research/expertise: carbon uptake by sea ice-covered regions in the Arctic and Southern Oceans; the mediating impact of sea ice on biogeochemical processes that drive the exchange of carbon dioxide between the surface water and the atmosphere, and the carbon sequestration in the deep ocean. Last year Elise took part in the groundbreaking MOSAiC Arctic expedition, spending three months onboard the research icebreaker RV Polarstern. Read more in UEA Research
She wrote about her experience on board here: Science on ice (uea.ac.uk)
Tom Hargreaves, Associate Professor, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: Tom.Hargreaves@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: How different types of sustainability innovation – from ‘smart’ home technologies to grassroots social innovations like community energy initiatives – operate in everyday settings and situations, and how attempts to govern everyday life impact on patterns of societal engagement.
Prof Andy Jordan, Professor of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences
Email: A.Jordan@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: how COPs/the UNFCCC play into EU and UK policy/politics, including Brexit. Prof Jordan is involved in a new project, running from 2021-26, examining the interaction between politicians and publics in moving towards net zero - Home (deepdcarb.org)
Dr Mike Brock, Associate Professor in Microeconomics, School of Economics
Email: Michael.Brock@uea.ac.uk
- Research/expertise: environmental & behavioural economics, recycling and environmental valuation.