Prof. Tom Tanner (SOAS)

Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimize losses and damages - npj Climate Action Heritage conservation recognizes that losses and damages cannot be entirely prevented, that decisions about what to keep and what to let go are fundamental to maintaining values for future generations...

#Adaptation isn't about preserving the status quo, but about managing inevitable and often painful change. Our new paper on 'curating transformation' looks at lessons from heritage management for wider adaptation & managing losses & damages (open access). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

27.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

09.01.2025 11:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Can U.N. summits save the planet? A faltering year of talks brings up questions about the process In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes.

Most experts still have hope despite evidence this year that the UN system is not fit for purpose on environmental issues

apnews.com/article/unit...

17.12.2024 10:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re hiring research fellows!

16.12.2024 18:00 — 👍 64    🔁 33    💬 6    📌 1

🎥 Sneak peek from the Financing Climate Action Roundtable!
@tommytanner.bsky.social offers his perspective on the financial pledges made at COP29.

Watch the full roundtable discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W56S...

@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social

16.12.2024 11:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

The call is out! In Oct 2025, Aotearoa/New Zealand hosts the world’s most significant climate adaptation event: #AF2025. Online & in-person. Hosted by UC & UN World Adaptation Science programme & consortium sponsors. A key focus is Oceania & Indigenous solutions. Join us! adaptationfutures2025.com

16.11.2024 22:28 — 👍 93    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 6

Front page of the journal article cited in the post

Great new article by @martaolazabal.bsky.social @sean-p-goodwin.bsky.social et al
Barriers to climate adaptation include
1. search for universal truths
2. failure to integrate different perspectives and knowledges
3. tendency to simplify what is a complex process
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

12.12.2024 14:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Watch the recording of this fab roundtable event here
youtu.be/W56S-rY0MVc

@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

12.12.2024 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Poster advertising SOAS event on climate finance post COP-29. 5pm UK time on 28th November 2024, featuring speakers: 1. Leo Horn-Phathanothai, Independent scholar, SOAS Professor of Practice 2. Yannis Dafermos, Reader, Department of Economics SOAS 3. Emily Wilkinson, Principal Fellow, ODI 4. Andrew Norton, Ex Director of IIED; special adviser to the Green Climate Fund, SOAS Professor of Practice 5. May Thazin Aung, Climate Finance Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development

Please join us this coming Thursday 5pm GMT @SOAS

Register for online or in person attendance here soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social

26.11.2024 11:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

(PDF) 2. Power and politics in the governance of community-based adaptation PDF | On Jan 1, 2014, Julian S. Yates published 2. Power and politics in the governance of community-based adaptation | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

If you are looking for a good paper that showcases critical adaptation scholarship, I really recommend Julian Yates chapter on the power and politics in the governance of community-based adaptation. You can find it here www.researchgate.net/publication/...

25.11.2024 10:17 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

1/26. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: Are you trying to understand the text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) at #COP29? 🤔 Are you a bit confused by all those technical terms? 😊 Read this thread! 🧵

19.11.2024 06:36 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0