Last week our PI Lisa Vanhala spoke at the #loveyourplanet event in her new role as Pro-Vice-Provost for the UCL Grand Challenges #climatecrisis theme. Lisa is very excited to be working on this important topic in the coming years with fellow Pro-Vice-Provost Professor Mark Maslin 𝕏 🙄!

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming current and former members of our CCLAD team for a two-day workshop at UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy. We discussed each other’s works on #lossanddamage (and beyond), shared project-related experiences and discussed future collaborations.

#MC13 is underway with high hopes for progress on trade and sustainability. But amidst geopolitical tensions and disagreement, what constitutes "success" at this crucial meeting? David Kleimann | @dkleimann.bsky.social 🌤, Jodie Keane and Michai Robertson analyse the challenges and potential outcomes. ⬇️

Outlook suggests reality checks needed for those who attended #COP28 with great expectations for #MC13. Great to collaborate with David Kleimann | @dkleimann.bsky.social 🌤 (.ODI’s new Senior Research Associate) and .Michai Robertson (.ODIclimate’s Research Fellow). .Dirk Willem te Velde .Sarah Colenbrander

🌎 Rising tides, shifting borders: Migration in a changing climate. ➡️ On the next #ThinkChangePodcast, Sara Pantuliano sits down w/Gaia Vince, Michai Robertson and Claire Kumar to discuss the effects of climate change on #migration Listen: buff.ly/49DqvmE 🎙️

1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050 due to the climate crisis, say UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. And as Michai Robertson explains, the often overlooked impacts of weather-related events on migration are felt acutely in the Caribbean. New #ThinkChangePodcast: buff.ly/3wSQfga

"Access is an institutional and governance problem" With debate around the New Collective Quantified Goal set to play out over 2024, Michai Robertson and Charlene Watson explore what 'access' to climate finance really means Read⬇️ buff.ly/3Wc7uDL

At ad hoc work programme on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance: #NCQG will act as a catalyst for 🛑Limiting global warming increase to 1.5C 💪🏽Achieving #climate resilience 💲Addressing #LossAndDamage that continues to surpass limits of what can be adapted to.

#ClimateFinance for #SIDS is provided on poor terms. Loans comprise 1/3 of financing to SIDS - so SIDS are paying for their response to a climate crisis we did not cause, and bigger countries are profiting off this. #NCQG Michai Robertson on BBC News (World) youtu.be/BKAJ-wbRuM0

1/3.“War and conflict get trillions already. The international community is wasting money on these issues rather than #ClimateChange which also affects conflict.” Michai Robertson makes clear that trillions are available for the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance.

1/3. “We are completely decimated at 1.1°C, I cannot believe the audacity of billionaires who say that 3°C is ok.” Michai Robertson, AOSIS, Lead Negotiator #ClimateFinance, on why small island states on the front lines of the #ClimateCrisis need scaled up #ClimateFinance.

"Trillions is not a large number", says Michai Robertson, Lead Negotiator on Climate Finance, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Spending trillions on addressing climate change is essential, as the cost of inaction far exceeds the initial investments required. #SB60 #COP29

"There is an indiscriminate assumption of corruption on developing countries as highlighted by Mia Amor Mottley last year, this is causing a huge issues for access to finance." Michai Robertson, Lead #ClimateFinance Negotiator of AOSIS at #TED10 of #NCQG.

AOSIS has published its proposal for a new #climatefinance goal #NCQG to drive 1.5°C ambition across the climate agenda. Trillions💲must be targeted to the mitigation, adaptation, and #lossanddamage needs and priorities of developing countries SUBMISSION: www4.unfccc.int/sites/Submissi…

It is hard watching wealthy nations fall late with past-due #climatefinance while quickly approving new💲 for war or #fossilfuel subsidies. "It seems like money is always there when it's a more 'real' national priority for the country," Michai Robertson reuters.com/business/envir…

Celebrating the warrior women of AOSIS leading on critical #climatechange issues! Areas like #JustTransition #Mitigation #Adaptation are critical for small island developing states - at #SB60 we benefited from the guidance of these strong women, including our Lead Negotiator 🙌

Just heard that #hurricaneBeryl is now a CAT 5 storm heading for Jamaica in JUNE. 10 years ago I spoke about working hard to avoid what is now a reality today. My heart is literally broken.

11/21. On Context, Michai Robertson for AOSIS highlighted that the paper should reflect that #ClimateFinance provision and mobilization contribute to #ClimateAction – holding to well below 1.5°C; looking at #Adaptation and fostering #ClimateResilience and on addressing

🚨 NEW report!🚨 ➡️ Developing countries face many barriers to accessing climate finance ➡️ So how can access to climate finance be enhanced under the New Collective Quantified Goal? 🖋️ Michai Robertson buff.ly/47noAly

36/59. Speaking for AOSIS, Michai Robertson highlighted that SIDS have always been the voice of reason and what you see with them is what you get: “there is no hidden agenda”. He said that it is quite clear after absorbing interventions and submissions that SIDS are