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Sam Barrett

Researcher (climate adaptation), Climate Change

Sam Barrett's work focuses on the effectiveness, governance and commercial viability of investments in climate adaptation, including integrating climate into development programming.
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Expertise

Adaptation finance effectiveness; value of adaptation; private investment in climate adaptation; climate-resilient livelihoods; monitoring and evaluation of climate adaptation programmes; integration of climate into development planning and decision-making; economic valuations of climate adaptation/resilient policy.

Before IIED
  • UK Meteorological Office
  • Perspectives: Climate Change

Education

  • PhD geography, Trinity College Dublin
  • MSC international relations, London School of Economics
  • BA political science, Trinity College Dublin

Current work

Climate integration into development programming; private investment in adaptation.

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Email: 
sam.barrett@iied.org
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Sam Barrett's projects

Desertic view with several refugee tends

Advancing understanding of disaster displacement in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

Project, Sep 2022
A woman bends over to tend to rows and rows of small trees being grown

Unlocking public climate finance for sustainable business transformation in Africa

Project, Sep 2021

Latest publications

Mass tree planting: prospects for a green legacy in Ethiopia

Assessing vulnerabilities to disaster displacement: a good practice review

Follow the money: tracking Least Developed Countries’ adaptation finance to the local level

Agri-food systems that work for people and planet: challenges and opportunities from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda

Good climate finance guide: lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance

Supporting smallholders’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable agricultural intensification

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