Geronimo Gussmann is an Advisor in Nature-based Solutions in the Impact Assessment and Adaptation Analysis section. His work focuses on advancing NbS in some of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Geronimo is a Political Economist by training. During his Ph.D. (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), he studied the governance of coastal adaptation in the Maldives and led the co-development of coastal climate services in the context of an EU funded research project.
Dr. Joshitha Sankam serves as a Project Officer at UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Her work involves providing science-based advice on loss and damage and adaptation and assist in the development of knowledge and capacity building products for various aspects related to climate impacts, loss and damage, adaptation, vulnerability, resilience, and transparency. She specializes in the domain of Climate Change and Health, with a focus on Planetary Health.
Julia works at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre in the Impact Assessment and Adaptation Analysis section, where she contributes to projects related to nature-based solutions, loss and damage, and climate transparency. Additionally, Julia is engaged in providing support to member states in establishing transparency frameworks and institutional arrangements for improved assessment of climate mitigation transparency efforts.
Jingjing Gao is a scientist at UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Her work focuses on climate impact assessment, adaptation transparency, resilience building and disaster management, as well as circular economy. Among other tasks at UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, she is responsible for management and technical support of adaptation and transparency projects in South Asia and Africa.
Thomas is a project officer in the Impact Assessment and Adaptation Section, specialising in adaptation planning and assessment. Joining the centre in 2018, he has contributed to the centre’s work supporting countries develop methodologies, metrics and systems for monitoring and evaluating adaptation policies and its work providing policy-relevant assessments of global progress in adaptation through the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report, for which he is a lead author.
Coming from the Caribbean, Lindy Charlery is an independent, results oriented professional, with a multidisciplinary career background. Specializing in the general field of Environmental and Resource Economics, his current focus ranges from issues related to adaptation to climate change and the need for climate smart technologies, to agricultural development and natural resource management, specifically in developing countries.
Henry Neufeldt is Head of Impact Assessment and Adaptation at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. He currently leads UNEP-CCC’s work on climate risks and transparency in adaptation and is the chief scientific editor of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Reports. He was also a lead author on the Working Group II chapter on ‘Food, Fibres and Ecosystem products’ of the recently launched IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
Ms. Karen Olsen (PhD) is a senior advisor in the Impact Assessment and Adaptation Analysis section at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. She has 15 years of work experience with climate and sustainable development in developing countries. Currently she leads the 'Sustainable Development Initiative on Implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC' jointly with the Gold Standard focusing on technical analysis and policy dialogue for negotiators to operationalize the 'rulebook' for new market mechanisms in the Paris Agreement.
Fatemeh Bakhtiari serves as a Senior Advisor at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, specializing in Loss and Damage at the City-level/national level. She leads policy and methodological development related to responding to Loss and Damage (L&D) and assists countries in establishing transparency frameworks to enhance data for L&D assessment and BRT reporting, such as through the ICAT project and UNEP-funded project CBIT/GSP.
Lars Christiansen is an Advisor at UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of adaptation, a large part of which has focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of projects under the Least Developed Countries Fund, Special Climate Change Fund and Adaptation Fund. Lars has more recently been involved in many activities at UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre related to transparency issues in climate adaptation.
