Sejal Patel

Senior researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets and Climate Change

Sejal Patel is an environmental economist with experience in public policy analysis, climate finance and governance, and climate-resilient development. Her work focuses on international, national and local level climate policy responses and resourcing.

Expertise

Climate finance; policy and governance; energy policy; adaptation and mitigation responses for climate-resilient development; economics of climate change. Experience in Kenya, China, India, Chile and Morocco.

Before IIED

Research officer, Climate and Energy Policy Team, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Education

MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change, LSE;

BSc Economics and Geography, UCL

Current work

Political economy assessments of adaptation interventions; analysis of climate policies and financing under the UNFCCC framework and the Sustainable Development Goals; supporting the development of innovative financing for promoting local action on climate change; and working with the Least Developed Countries Group to support their LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience.

Sejal Patel

Senior researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets and Climate Change

Expertise

Before IIED

Current work

Insights

Gearing debt swaps towards debt relief

Progressive countries agree shared vision at COP28 to transform adaptation finance

Learning from adaptation financing that is working for LDCs and SIDS

Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate

Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries

Message to the Green Climate Fund board: step up finance access for the most vulnerable

The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation

COP25 policy and activism: we deserved better

Publications

Good practices in accessing and delivering adaptation finance to support Small Island Developing States and least developed countries

Gender, climate finance and inclusive low-carbon transitions

Kenya climate and nature financing options analysis

After the Paris agreement, the debt deluge

Mainstreaming public participation into climate budgeting

Averting the crises: how a new approach to debt could raise US$400 billion for climate and nature

Money where it matters for people, nature and climate

Financing an inclusive, green recovery in Least Developed Countries: debt instruments for climate and nature

Creating a Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) at the IMF: How to Support Climate-vulnerable Countries

Innovative financing for Africa: harnessing debt for climate and nature

Sustainable financing of The Gambia’s development in a COVID-19 era

Key performance indicators for climate and nature outcomes in debt management in West Africa

Principles for locally led adaptation

Good climate finance guide: lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance

Tackling the triple crisis. Using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19

What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the Least Developed Countries