For our first episode of 2023, Kate speaks with Timo Leiter about his recent CCLR article, ‘Too Little, Too Slow? Climate Adaptation at the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations Since the Adoption of the Paris Agreement’. Timo takes the opportunity to provide further context and background on his framework for tracking and assessing negotiation outcomes, explains how the negotiations have evolved and identifies adaptation related gaps that can be addressed at a global level.

Timo is a PhD researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, a lead author of UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the IPCCC 6th Assessment Report. 

In this special episode of Climate Discourse, Kate speaks with Joe DiMento about his new book Polar Shift: The Arctic Sustained. 

Joe explains how his previous work on regional seas, his travels in the arctic  and the increasing importance of the region  inspired his work. They also discuss the challenges in defining the region, some of the most pressing legal issues, the  existing legal gaps and the tremendous impact the region has on the rest of the world, environmentally, politically and legally.

Joe DiMento is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine.

For this month’s episode, Kate sat down with Dr. Brian Mantlana. Brian leads the work on climate change at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and is a Commissioner on South Africa’s Presidential Climate Change Commission. Kate spoke to Brian about a paper he published in the most recent issue of CCLR which takes a look at the upcoming COP 27, Egypt’s role as this year’s host, the importance of the UNFCCC negotiations and the role coalitions play within that process. Brian also gives us his helpful tips on how to survive the gruelling two weeks of COP negotiations!