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Nanki Kaur

Principal researcher, Climate Change

Nanki Kaur's areas of expertise include managing finances for climate adaptation and mitigation, the institutional dimensions of natural resource governance, and pro-poor development. Her current work is focusing on assessing the political economy of adaptation measures, international climate change negotiations, and adaptation planning in Nepal and Ethiopia.
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Expertise

Climate change adaptation and financing; institutional dimensions of natural resource governance; pro-poor development.

Before IIED
  • Overseas Development Institute (2006-2009).
  • The Energy and Resources Institute (2003-2006).

Current work

Adaptation planning (Nepal and Ethiopia); political economy assessment of adaptation interventions (global); international climate change negotiations.

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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
Email: 
nanki.kaur@iied.org
Twitter: @nankimann
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Languages: English, Hindi and Punjabi

Nanki Kaur's projects

A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)

Government group network on climate change mainstreaming

Project, Sep 2014
A house on the island of Padma Pakur is submerged by the rising waters (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)

Building climate change resilience in South Asia

Project, Jun 2014

Nanki Kaur's blog posts

The Asian Development Bank is helping herders in Mongolia combat the consequences of climate change by training them to cultivate fodder or animal feed that is more resilient towards extreme weather changes, using plants that are adapted to the area (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Finance for inclusive investment in climate resilient development

Blog, Aug 2015
A storm rages over downtown Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in the early evening (Photo: Jeff_Holmes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps

Blog, Apr 2014
A house in Rema gets fitted with solar panels.

Ethiopia: Can it adapt to climate change and build a green economy?

Blog, Mar 2013
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