Timo Leiter

@TimoLeiter

Advisor & researcher on climate change , climate policy () and M&E. AR6 co-author. PhD candidate at London School of Economics

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    1 Oct 2021

    70 countries have a national plan (), but less than 40% are tracking its implementation❗ More attention is needed on the quality of adaptation planning & how effective it is in facilitating . ➡New article:

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  2. 13 Nov 2021

    While the adoption of the Climate Pact has attracted lots of applause in the plenary, the parallel plenary room for observers saw little cause for celebration. The last minute watering down of essential phase out cannot be celebrated. 1.5°C barely alive 😞🔥

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  3. 4 Nov 2021

    (3) Emphasising the need to study how global environmental agreement-making works, including at , & the importance of participant observation as a research method. Fantastic team of authors led by & . New in the ➡

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  4. 4 Nov 2021

    (2) The stocktake by the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative (GAMI) forms 1 of 3 sources of input to the chapter on global progress on implementation of in the 2021 Adaptation Gap Report, launched today by & ➡

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  5. 4 Nov 2021

    (1) Answering: is adaptation taking place? We found 1,682 journal articles that document implemented worldwide. An important evidence base for the respective section in the WGII (launch: February 2022) ➡

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  6. 4 Nov 2021

    When timing is on your side: 2 journal articles with high relevance for the negotiations published during including a seminal stocktake of human in , plus 's 2021 Adaptation Gap Report where I led the core chapter on implementation ✅Links ⬇

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  7. 2 Nov 2021

    (6) Numerous derivative articles explore specific questions, e.g. on the evidence of adaptation & health, the feasibility of adaptation options in , or on . An up-to-date list is on the website of the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative ➡

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  8. 2 Nov 2021

    (5) The findings show where takes place, by whom, in what sector, and against which hazards. We also looked at the potential for transformational adaptation and at evidence of risk reduction.

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  9. 2 Nov 2021

    (4) ... climate impacts, adaptive capacity & vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, or other conceptual work. We identified 1,682 articles that documented *implemented* adaptation out of several 10,000s of adaptation-related articles.

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  10. 2 Nov 2021

    (3) More than 120 researchers from all continents have screened & analysed all articles published between 2013-2019 in scientific journals for evidence of *implemented* adaptation. The great majority of the adaptation literature is not documenting implementation, but is about...

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  11. 2 Nov 2021

    The link to the article "A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change" is: It's the flagship article from the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative (GAMI) led by

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  12. 1 Nov 2021

    When your topic is on the cover of Nature Climate Change () & starts the same week, it hardly gets more exciting! Watch out for developments on progress including the launch of the Adaptation Gap Report this Thursday (4 Nov, 11:30 UK time).

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  13. 28 Oct 2021

    Countries not aligned with the 1.5°C target "have got to redo their !" - John Kerry's passionate speech at on the way to . "Adressing the climate crisis is not a hard choice, it's the only choice!" ➡ must keep 1.5 alive!⌛🌍

    “the time for debating the causes of climate change is long over. The time for action is long overdue. And the stakes could not be higher.” Check out the video & transcript of the speech made by ’s at LSE this morning
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  14. 5 Oct 2021

    Today session #274 "Progress reporting on National Adaptation Plans ()" by with , & at 11am CEST/ 14:30 IST. ➡See my of all countries' NAP progress tracking systems:

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  15. 19 Aug 2021

    The difference between measuring GHG emissions and and the pitfalls of adaptation indicators are explained in this 2018 chapter with :

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  16. 19 Aug 2021

    Quoted today in a news story by on measuring global progress on (link ⬇). Simplistic metrics like "number of countries with a plan" can be misleading, as I argued in this recent commentary:

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  17. 10 Jul 2021

    Including over CAD 10 billion since the Covid-pandemic began. So much for "green recovery". The money would better be spent on decarbonization because if climate action remains rhetoric, these heat extremes will become not a 1/1000 year but a 1/10 year event.

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  18. 10 Jul 2021

    just experienced its most extreme heat ever recorded with over 50°C & >700 deaths. Meanwhile the Canadian govt continues to spent billions of taxpayers money on oil & gas infrastructure that locks in emissions for decades to come. A fatal mistake.

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  19. 29 Apr 2021

    In my recent commentary, I similarly argue that simplistic indicators like "number of plans" can convey a false sense of progress when it is actually the quality, leadership and policy traction that matters for planning:

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  20. 29 Apr 2021

    Link to the commentary on how compound risks affect SDGs and that this is not accounted for in their indicator framework:

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