Lina Yassin

Researcher (climate diplomacy), Climate Change

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Telephone: +44 (0)20 3463 7399
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Languages: English, Arabic

Lina supports the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), focusing on:

  • Climate adaptation negotiation support – providing technical advice and policy guidance on issues such as the Global Goal on Adaptation and national adaptation plans. Lina works closely with LDC negotiators, ministers and policymakers to ensure the group’s positions are grounded in robust research and the global outcomes reflect the needs of the countries most vulnerable to climate impacts.
  • Research and capacity building – working with LDC researchers to produce evidence-based policy briefs that shape LDC positions on critical issues related to adaptation. Lina currently advise the group on the establishment of the LDC secretariat and provides capacity building support to emerging LDC negotiators. 

Lina’s work combines diplomacy and technical advocacy to push for ambitious and equitable climate action.

Expertise

Climate diplomacy; climate adaptation; UN climate negotiations; policy research; media and communications.

Before IIED

Before joining IIED, Lina supported the Sudanese delegation at COP, providing technical advice on climate finance negotiations. She led capacity-building programmes for journalists at climate tracker, consulted on climate adaptation projects in Sudan with Landell Mills under the EU Global Climate Change Alliance project, and researched media freedom policies at City, University of London.

Education

  • MSc environmental change and management, University of Oxford, UK

 

Current work

Providing technical support for the development of Global Goal on Adaptation indicators; building the capacity of emerging LDC negotiators to strengthen their role in climate negotiations; advising on the establishment of the LDC secretariat; decoding UNFCCC outcomes for effective national level policy implementation.