Dr Olivia Serdeczny
Research Analyst
Climate Science and Impacts

Dr Olivia Serdeczny is research analyst at Climate Analytics. She provides scientific advice to the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, with a particular focus on loss and damage. Together with Bill Hare and John Schellnhuber (PIK) she initiated the World Bank's “Turn Down the Heat” series of reports.
Before joining Climate Analytics, Olivia worked as a research analyst to Professor Schellnhuber (PIK) for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). She holds a PhD in Geography from the Humboldt Universität Berlin. Her research focused on the use of science in climate negotiations, and how to avoid injustice towards developing countries in light of loss and damage evidence gaps.
Publications
- Serdeczny, Thomas, Theokritoff, Pandey. Calculating the loss and damage finance gap: a scoping and feasibility exercise. (2024)
- van Schie, Jackson, Serdeczny, van der Geest. Economic and non-economic loss and damage: a harmful dichotomy?. Global Sustainability. 7, e42 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.40
- Coucou, D.C., Arias, P.A.A., Bastos, A.B., Gonzales, C.K.G.G., Hegerl, G.C.H., Hope, P.H., Jack, C.J., Otto, F.O., Saeed, F.S., Serdeczny, O.S., Shepherd, T.G.S., Vautard, R.V. How can event attribution science underpin financial decisions on Loss and Damage?. PNAS Nexus. 3, 8 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae277
- Serdeczny. Using existing databases to report on loss and damage in Biennial Transparency Reports under the UNFCCC. (2024)
- Sircar, Thomas, Serdeczny, Jattansingh. A review of loss and damage in the Caribbean (1994 to 2024). (2024)
- Serdeczny, O., Andrijevic, M., Fyson, C., Lissner, T., Menke, I., Schleussner, C.F., Theokritoff, E., Thomas, A. Climatic risks to adaptive capacity. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29 (2024)
- Serdeczny, O. The effects of political knowledge use by developing country negotiators in Loss and Damage negotiations. Global Environmental Politics. 23, 3 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00727
- Serdeczny, O., Lissner, T. Research agenda for the loss and damage fund. Nature Climate Change. 13 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01648-x
- Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate
- Loss and damage research for the global stocktake
- Towards a solid science base: loss and damage in the IPCC special reports
- 1.5°C Hotspots: Climate Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Impacts