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        Sivan Kartha

        Senior Scientist

      • SEI US,
      • Role(s): Co-leader, SEI Gender and Social Equality Programme
      • sivan.kartha@sei.org
      • @KarthaSivan
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      Sivan Kartha is a Senior Scientist at SEI US. He is on the Steering Group for SEI’s Gender Equality and Social Equity Programme. 

      His research and publications for the past 25 years have dealt with policy strategies for addressing climate change, focusing on equity and effectiveness in the design of an international climate regime. He has also worked on mitigation scenarios, market mechanisms for climate actions, and the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of biomass energy. 

      He is co-director of the Climate Equity Reference Project , a research and outreach effort in partnership with civil society organizations on the political and ethical dimensions of equitably sharing the effort of an ambitious global response to climate change.  

      His work has enabled him to advise and collaborate with diverse organizations, including the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), various UN and World Bank programmes, numerous government policy-making bodies and agencies, foundations and civil society organizations throughout the developing and industrialized world. 

      He served as a Coordinating Lead Author in the preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  released in 2014, co-leading the chapter on Equity and Sustainable Development. 

      He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1993. 

      Q&A: Sivan Kartha on how climate affected the Doomsday Clock

      It’s 30 seconds closer to an apocalyptic “midnight”. Sivan Kartha answers a few questions about his role and how humanity can keep away from midnight.

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      • Climate
      • 26 January 2018

      Publications by Sivan Kartha

      • The missing link between inequality and the environment in SDG 10
      • The inequality-emissions link and what it means for the 1.5°C goal
      • Designing a fair and feasible loss and damage finance mechanism
      • Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement
      • The Production Gap Report 2020
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      Perspectives by Sivan Kartha

      • Eight takeaways from the IPCC report on climate mitigation
      • Countries need to phase out fossil fuels. Here’s how to do it fairly
      • How climate helped push the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight
      • Why an equitable approach is the only practical way to address the climate crisis
      • ¿Por qué un enfoque equitativo es la única manera práctica de abordar la crisis climática?
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      Featured stories with Sivan Kartha

      • Q&A: How IPCC reports get written, why they matter and what role governments play in them
      • A just transition
      • How finance works towards - or against - sustainable development
      • Our guide to COP25
      • Just transitions: what you need to know for COP24
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      Projects and tools with Sivan Kartha

      • Fossil Fuel Transparency Platform
      • Emissions Inequality Dashboard
      • Iniciativa de SEI sobre igualdad de género, equidad social y pobreza
      • Designing a Loss and Damage fund for the UNFCCC Warsaw International Mechanism
      • Iniciativa SEI sobre Carbon Lock-In o bloqueo de carbono
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