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Nature positive solutions for climate vulnerable countries: The Philippines

Paula leads RMI’s Climate Resilient Cities project and offshore wind market development research in the Philippines. Prior to RMI, Paula was project manager for the Financial Futures Center, where she led the Philippines Grid Modernization Research project and the Global South climate finance consortium for Asia-Pacific. She also served as a program consultant for New Energy Nexus to support rural electrification and solar PV projects in the Philippines by actively engaging with electric cooperatives and startups.

Can seaweeds be used as nature-based solutions to mitigate poor water quality?

Dr. Saha has been awarded several prestigious research fellowships to study the chemical ecology of algae and is currently investigating association of pathogenic Vibrio with phytoplankton in relation to waterborne diseases and nature-based solutions to mitigate the problem of poor water quality. She sits on the editorial board of 4 international journals and also serves as a reviewer for the German and Belgium research foundation, alongside mor than 20 international journals.

Closing the loop: How California uses water for a sustainable future

Her work focuses on activating climate-differentiated markets and policy via oil and gas emissions accounting, technology, data transparency, and traceability. Before joining RMI, Suzy was an engineering project manager at GHD for water/wastewater engineering projects in California and Texas, as well as for marine-based international environmental impact assessment projects.

Mangrove Conservation as a Nature-based Solution (NbS):The case of the Mikoko Pamoja Project

Dr. Hamza is a research scientist at the Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) Kenya and a postgraduate researcher at Bournemouth University UK. Her research interest is in marine resource sustainability assessment, including designing strategies for the sustainable utilization of marine living resources. Amina’s PhD assessed changes in the mangrove forest in and its implications for community livelihood in Kenya. She is also a co-founder of the first and award-winning community carbon offset project in a mangrove forest termed “Mikoko Pamoja” located in Southern Kenya.

COP27, COP15, and beyond: Shaping a blue world together

Ryan's work focuses on investigating the fundamental interactions between the nitrogen and oxygen cycles specifically in Tolo Harbour, a sheltered coastal area located in the Northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong. Ryan is committed to his climate advocacy work both locally and internationally. He is also a co-founder of ‘Climate Sense’, a climate advocacy group in Hong Kong which champions the comprehensiveness of climate change education in Hong Kong’s primary and secondary schools.

Elevating indigenous voices in climate solutions

Anpotowin graduated with a Master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, where she was the first Native woman on Stanford’s Student Global Health Board. As a writer, author, and poet, she interweaves her experiences as an Oglala woman, engineer, and advocate for Indigenous solutions in global health & climate change in her creations. Through her advocacy, Anpotowin has delivered testimony on the United Nations floor that led to formal policy recommendations on Indigenous languages & health from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to the World Health Organization.  

Scenario planning towards sustainable linear infrastructure and climate adaptation in southern Kenya rangelands

Dr. Nyumba has several years of experience leading science and applied research exploring the nature-infrastructure-people interactions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Tobias is currently an Associate Director for the Dakota Wesleyan University, USA in Nairobi, Associate at the University of Nairobi’s Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, a member of the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and an Advisory Panel Member for the Conservation Evidence’s Mammal Synopsys, University of Cambridge; Lead Author for IPBES Values Assessment and a host of other publications.

Collaboration at the nexus of climate, conservation and community

Sachi is the Associate Director for Climate with The Nature Conservancy’s Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota chapter, where she leads the mitigation program. Sachi is responsible for promoting the implementation of renewable energy, identifying policy opportunities to support climate change adaptation and mitigation, and developing support for natural climate solutions. She has co-authored 2 reports on the opportunity for Natural Climate Solutions in Minnesota and North Dakota.

Growing to its potential: The value of urban nature to communities, investors and the climate

Jacob Korn is an Associate on the Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI) Urban Transformation team, which helps cities around the world simultaneously reduce emissions, enhance urban livability, increase resilience, and advance social equity. His work focuses on developing tools to model the economic and environmental benefits of residential home and transportation electrification. He has also supported projects to quantify the benefits of urban nature and advance land-use reform.

Links between climate change mitigation, adaptation and development in land policy and ecosystem restoration projects: lessons from South Africa

Dr Favoretto has a PhD in Environmental Sustainability and experience in mixed-method, multi-level research addressing environmental, economic and policy dimensions of sustainable development across dryland sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Throughout his work focused on addressing complex international development challenges and bridging major science-policy gaps, Dr Favretto has undertaken research and managerial roles across a range of international organisations (i.e. United Nations University, United Nations Development Programme, European Commission)