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        Magnus Benzie

        Research Fellow

      • Role(s): UNCCD contact point
      • magnus.benzie@sei.org
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      Magnus Benzie is a Research Fellow at SEI Oxford with a focus on climate change adaptation.

      He has over 15 years of professional experience in climate change research focusing on climate impacts, vulnerability, risk and adaptation. He has consulted directly with organisations in a variety of sectors to scope and assess climate risks and plan adaptation, working at multiple scales from local and city governments, non-profit sectors, multinational corporations, national government and regional and international bodies.

      His research work is focused mostly at the global scale or within Europe but has included field work in West and East Africa and Central Asia.

      Magnus is interested in how society can anticipate and respond to strategic threats and opportunities in just and sustainable ways.

      His current work focuses on the concept of transnational climate risk: how climate impacts in one place might affect others via international networks and interdependence such as trade, investments, transboundary ecosystems and changing security threats. He also has a keen interest in strategic foresight and the use of scenario-building processes to explore future risks related to climate change and changing geopolitics.

      Prior to joining SEI Magnus worked for a climate change and environmental consultancy in the UK (AEA/ Ricardo) and at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin. He has a MA (Politics) from the University of Edinburgh and a MSc (Environmental Policy) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

      Publications by Magnus Benzie

      • Adaptation Without Borders: A brief to participants in COP27
      • Multilateral adaptation finance for systemic resilience: addressing transboundary climate risk
      • New risk horizons: Sweden's exposure to climate risk via international trade
      • Rising to a new challenge: a protocol for case-study research on transboundary climate risk
      • Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience
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      Perspectives by Magnus Benzie

      • Questioning the scientific feasibility and policy relevance of assessing transboundary climate risks
      • How the "Adaptation COP" serves to build systemic resilience will determine its success
      • ما سيحدد نجاح "التكيف في مؤتمر الأطراف لاتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لتغير المناخ" هو بناء منهجية مرنة
      • Tackling cascading climate risk to meet global adaptation challenge: which countries have the interest, capacity and responsibility to act?
      • Five big ideas to make the Global Goal on Adaptation live up to its name

      Featured stories with Magnus Benzie

      • Our guide to COP27
      • SEI Oxford event addresses the future of climate change adaptation
      • Q&A: How IPCC reports get written, why they matter and what role governments play in them
      • Stories from an interconnected world
      • Our guide to COP26
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      Projects and tools with Magnus Benzie

      • Global data on transboundary climate risks in agricultural commodity flows
      • Adaptation Without Borders
      • CASCADES
      • SENSES
      • Mistra Geopolitics
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