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        Katy Harris

        Senior Policy Fellow

      • SEI Headquarters,
      • Role(s): Director of Adaptation Without Borders
      • katy.harris@sei.org
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      Katy Harris is a Senior Policy Fellow at SEI Headquarters, with a focus on the global governance of climate change adaptation. She is also the director of Adaptation Without Borders.

      Her current work focuses on the concept of transboundary climate risk: how the impacts of climate change in one place can affect others elsewhere, including the ‘ripple effects’ of our own adaptation responses. She is interested in how governance frameworks and policies can better account for our global interdependence (our systems, networks and pathways) and how a better recognition and understanding of transboundary climate risks might enhance multilateral cooperation on adaptation, and ultimately engender a greater global ambition commensurate with the scale of the challenge. Her ultimate concern is to reveal the hidden vulnerabilities associated with unforeseen or emerging climate risks to encourage more just and sustainable responses.

      Katy has over twelve years of professional experience in international relations, directing external engagement programmes, teams and strategies. Much of her work to date has been based within international development and humanitarian organisations where she has led communications, public affairs and advocacy projects to maximise impact and advance policy objectives. Her work has entailed building a number of partnerships and coalitions with key constituencies (multilateral, bilateral, private sector and civil society) and coordinating the delivery of outputs and activities for research and advocacy workstreams – including high-level events and strategic convenings around the world.

      Prior to SEI, Katy worked at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and international NGO CAFOD. She has an MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology with Development from the University of Edinburgh.

       

      Non-SEI publications by Katy Harris

      • ECCA 2021: Four Cs to foresee a climate-resilient Europe

      Publications by Katy Harris

      • Adaptation Without Borders: A brief to participants in COP27
      • Multilateral adaptation finance for systemic resilience: addressing transboundary climate risk
      • Rising to a new challenge: a protocol for case-study research on transboundary climate risk
      • Building climate diplomacy back better: imagining the UNFCCC meetings of tomorrow – fact sheet
      • Building climate diplomacy back better: imagining the UNFCCC meetings of tomorrow
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      Perspectives by Katy Harris

      • Seven priorities for COP27
      • Questioning the scientific feasibility and policy relevance of assessing transboundary climate risks
      • Is the new IPCC report a game changer for adaptation?
      • Tackling cascading climate risk to meet global adaptation challenge: which countries have the interest, capacity and responsibility to act?
      • Four Cs to foresee a climate-resilient Europe
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      Featured stories with Katy Harris

      • Our guide to COP27
      • Stories from an interconnected world
      • Our guide to COP26
      • Survey: could online climate negotiations be more effective, inclusive and transparent?
      • The Paris Agreement five years on

      Projects and tools with Katy Harris

      • Online Climate Negotiations: Building climate diplomacy back better
      • Adaptation Without Borders
      • CASCADES
      • UNCHAIN: Unpacking climate impact chains
      • weADAPT
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