Global environmental assessments play a critical role in informing worldwide decision-making 📝🌍 Professor James Ford (James D. Ford) shared his contributions to the #GEO7 report, including attending the 3rd authors meeting in Nairobi 👇 climate.leeds.ac.uk/discussing-glo…

🔔 Reminder to sign up for Thursday's seminar if you haven't already! 🔔 Piers Sellers prize winner @carolzavaleta will be sharing exciting insights from her research as an Indigenous health and climate scholar working in Peru 👇

Finally out📢 Happy to share our new study in NatureClimate on the impacts of drought & aridity on internal migration worldwide 🌍 We show that #climate can be an important #migration driver but not for everyone & everywhere nature.com/articles/s4155… Here's what we find 🧵 1/

🌿Last week, we had an amazing in-person meeting in the Central Amazon rainforest! It was great to connect with new and old colleagues from our network. Though we work virtually, these in-person moments help us learn, bond, and plan for the future. Stay tuned for what's coming!🌍

Day 1 in Satipo, Peru: We had the privilege of visiting the Ashaninka community of San Pascual. They've been key partners in our research, sharing their rich culture and collective efforts to restore their forest through greenhouses and fish farms. 🌱🌿 #IndigenousKnowledge

New research by Bryson et al. finds that Bakiga and Indigenous Batwa women in rural Uganda view food insecurity and climate extremes as major sources of stress during pregnancy journals.plos.org/climate/articl… Ashlee Cunsolo Sherilee Harper Prof Lea Berrang Ford Shuaib Lwasa James D. Ford IHACC Research Program

Excited to see The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report on CC and health now released. @carolzavaleta and myself helped write the sections on Indigenous health and climate change Priestley Centre for Climate Futures IPON Research Network

see our new paper just out in PLOS Climate on climate change, food security, and mental health among Uganda's Batwa journals.plos.org/climate/articl… Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

Our chairs James D. Ford and @carolzavaleta have helped write the sections on Indigenous health and climate change of the 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change!

🌱 From learning about “Masato” to deepening his commitment to supporting Indigenous communities, Eranga K. Galappaththi ´s reflections about our recent meeting are a powerful reminder of why we do this work. Check out his full post on LinkedIn for more insights! linkedin.com/posts/ipon-the…

20 years ago I published my first paper: "A Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Communities in the Canadian Arctic to Risks Associated with Climate Change". A bit dated now but still relevant journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arct…

Fully funded PhD to work with me and @nickmalleson modelling climate futures in the Arctic: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2079-m… Geography at Leeds Priestley Centre for Climate Futures UK Polar Network NERC Arctic Office

See our paper just on out on "Climate change, mass casualty incidents, and emergency response in the Arctic" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… Priestley Centre for Climate Futures NERC Arctic Office

Apply to work with me for a fully funded PhD 'Developing ethnoclimatologies of climate risk' via a new NERC DTP call unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/4185-… Priestley Centre for Climate Futures IPON Research Network

The Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network (IPON Research Network) was recently inaugurated in the Peruvian Amazon 🌾🌳 It focuses on understanding and responding to the unprecedented challenges posed by climate change to the food systems and health of Indigenous communities 👇

see our new paper on Indigenous knowledge and leadership for climate change adaptation in nutrition journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… Priestley Centre for Climate Futures IPON Research Network

see our new paper just out on "Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology" wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

🪴New Overview published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change by Ishfaq Hussain Maliks and James D. Ford🪴 'Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology'. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1002/wcc.927

Dear X followers - after over decade on twitter I am moving to Bluesky. My handle will be @profjamesford.bsky.social so please follow me here.

📷 Knowledge syntheses are urgently needed for many climate change topics/questions. We provide guidance for producing robust, transparent, reproducible, inclusive and timely syntheses: nature.com/articles/s4155…