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> Climate Change research group

Janna Tenzing

Researcher, Climate Change

Full biography
Expertise

International climate change negotiations (UNFCCC); capacity building for new UNFCCC delegates; UN processes related to sustainable development; gender equality and climate change interlinkages.

Before IIED
  • Consultant on climate change and sustainable development, UN Women (2012-13)

Education

  • MSc. Environment, Science and Society, University College London (2011)
  • BA. English, Sociology, McGill University (2008)

Current work

Supporting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the UNFCCC negotiations, in particular on issues related to climate finance and gender equality; engaging in research and capacity strengthening activities for LDC delegates; supporting LDC governments in implementing the Paris Agreement.

Janna is also a PhD student at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the role of social protection in reducing structural vulnerability to climate change in LDCs. 

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Email: 
janna.tenzing@iied.org
Twitter: @janna_tenzing
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Languages: English, French (fluent); Bhutanese (Eastern dialect), and Spanish (intermediate)

Janna Tenzing's projects

Ministerial-level consultations on the Myanmar National Climate Policy, Nay Pyi Taw (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)

Developing Myanmar’s national climate change policy

Project, Apr 2018
Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations

Project, Mar 2018
UNFCCC negotiations session, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Facilitating greater representation of LDCs in the UNFCCC process

Project, Mar 2018

Latest publications

Transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Lessons from Ethiopia’s progressive climate policy

From global ambition to country action: Bhutan steps towards low-carbon climate-resilient development

From global ambition to country action: Low-carbon climate-resilient development in Bhutan

Developing Myanmar’s National Climate Change Policy

Provisions for support to LDCs: facilitating the implementation of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement

Knowledge-based participatory action research

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Janna Tenzing's blog posts

The 2016 Bonn climate change Conference featured a workshop and numerous informal consultations on gender-responsive climate policy (Photo by IISD/ENB/Kiara Worth)

LDC women in world climate talks: building a cohort of champions

Blog, May 2017
Participants in the gender and environmental change workshop discuss REDD+ (Photo: Lucile Robinson/IIED)

Making gender equality a global and local reality

Blog, May 2014
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