Climate Change: Learning for Action

Navroz is Professor, Centre for Policy Research, India. He is currently a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Sixth Assessment), advises the UNEP Emissions Gap Report Steering Committee, and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the UN Climate Action Summit. Within India, Navroz has been a member of the group that developed India’s Low Carbon Strategy for Inclusive Growth and the Committee for a Long Term Strategy for Low Carbon Development for India; he continues to serve on advisory committees on energy, water and air pollution. In 2015, he was awarded the 12th T. N. Khoshoo Memorial Award for his work on Indian and global climate change governance.

Laura has ten years combined research and consulting experience working on climate change adaptation globally. She is the CEO and Founder of ITACA, a technical assistance service provider, committed to accelerating climate adaptation and resilience financing in the Caribbean. She also works for Acclimatise/Willis Tower Watson as climate risk analyst and business development associate.

Harish Hande is a well-known social entrepreneur, who co-founded SELCO India in 1995. He also served as its director, and under his leadership SELCO has won Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy 2005, Accenture Economic Development Award for 2005, Ashden Award for "Outstanding Achievement" in energy sector and many more honours. Harish Hande is a recipient of the very prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011 for "his pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology in the hands of the poor, through his social enterprise SELCO India".

Tracey is an Associate Professor and University of California Presidential Chair, U.C. Merced, and director of the newly-created Center for Climate Justice. She was previously a professor at University of Arizona where she helped develop a climate justice mapping project in collaboration with environmental NGOs and indigenous organizations, was the Director of the Public Political Ecology Lab. Her research investigates the political ecology of environmental markets, particularly carbon markets,and their implications for the lives and livelihoods of forest communities in the Global South. Tracey received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her dissertation research focused on carbon forestry and development in Chiapas, Mexico.

Chip is globally recognized as a leading climate science expert. He is a Professor in the Dept of Earth Sciences at SOEST, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Caroline is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance Executive Committee and is currently working at the University of Bath as a Teaching Fellow in Social Work as she pursues her DPhil in Education. Her research focuses on climate psychology for young people.

Zoe is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Schmidt Futures, where she is currently building a new impact venture. She has spent the last decade in the impact investing world, most recently as Managing Director at Techstars Impact, an early-stage impact venture fund investing in startups using tech to solve social and environmental challenges. Through that fund, Zoe invested in startups across several climate-related industries, including sustainable agriculture, food waste, clean energy and more.

Archana is a sustainable development and climate change adaptation specialist, working on design, implementation and monitoring of development projects in the urban and rural context through the lens of climate finance. She has specific experience in working with cross-sectoral themes in environment and climate change and her insights are derived from her work across various development organisations in major Asian countries.

My research spanning over two decades has focused on applying molecular tools in the context of tropical forest conservation and species recovery. I have led multiple research projects on forest genetic resources that provide critical societal value. A core area of research has been on enhancing the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources to deliver sustainable development. In recent years, I have been interested in looking at the impacts of climate change in shaping species distributions, especially of invasive species. I use climatic niche models to develop species recovery programs for endangered species.

Climate change and sustainability professional with expertise in green building policy; local climate change mitigation strategies; greenhouse gas quantification and inventory protocol; sustainable development, water and wastewater access in North America, Latin America, Africa and South Asia.

Cecilia Han Springer is a Senior Researcher at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, where she analyzes China's overseas investments in the energy and resource sectors. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior associate at Climate Advisers, and a Fulbright fellow in China. Cecilia also consults on industrial energy efficiency and decarbonization. She has a PhD in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley.

I specialize primarily in behind the meter resource policy and regulation including photovoltaics, energy storage, solar hot water, EV charging, demand response technology and distributed energy resources. My expertise include direct advocacy, lobbying, technical and policy expertise around rate design, program design, and utility regulation. I also get involved in technical standards and specification of various products, code analysis and adoption, and policies of that nature. I currently serve as the Director of Hawaii's largest trade organization representing these interests, and also regularly participate in conferences, symposiums, and events as an expert nationally and internationally on those topics. My educational background include environmental public policy, public administration, and emergency medicine. I live and work in Honolulu, Hawaii.