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Nick Simpson

@NickZimson

Climate risk, adaptation and resilience; ODI & UCT; IPCC Africa

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Compound climate events make life much more difficult in protracted crises and humanitarian interventions much harder.
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ODIclimate(@ODIclimate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“The average debt payments for a typical small island state now risk outstripping their entire annual average healthcare budget'

Emily Wilkinson spoke to Inside Climate News about new ODI research on debt in Small Island Developing States. ⬇️ buff.ly/449SA2P

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New One Earth Perspective! Nicholas Simpson Global Centre for Climate Mobility & colleagues present nine research priorities for understanding mobility in the context of climate adaptation.

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Jason Hickel(@jasonhickel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.…

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.…
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Thomas Piketty(@PikettyWIL) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time

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Extreme heat in West Africa much hotter than it used to be because of our burning of fossil fuels. Still there's basically no warning or research on the impacts and risks associated with heat such deadly heat. New World Weather Attribution study: worldweatherattribution.org/dangerous-humi…

Extreme heat in West Africa much hotter than it used to be because of our burning of fossil fuels. Still there's basically no warning or research on the impacts and risks associated with heat such deadly heat. New @WWAttribution study: worldweatherattribution.org/dangerous-humi…
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The recent article titled 'Research Priorities for Climate Mobility,' published in One Earth by Sarah Rosengaertner & Kamal Amakrane of Global Centre for Climate Mobility, along with former GCCM Senior Advisor, Dr. Nick Simpson & co-authors, highlights essential knowledge gaps and research requirements.

The recent article titled 'Research Priorities for Climate Mobility,' published in @OneEarth_CP by @SRosengaertner & @Amakrane of @GCCMobility, along with former GCCM Senior Advisor, Dr. @NickZimson & co-authors, highlights essential knowledge gaps and research requirements.
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Coming up tomorrow! ⏰

Join ODIclimate and AEFUNAI Centre for Climate Change & Development for a webinar that will launch new research on the challenges and opportunities of Nigeria’s fuel subsidy reform.

Find out more and sign up ⤵️

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