Dr Emily Theokritoff
Research Analyst
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Emily is a research analyst at Climate Analytics. Her work revolves around climate change impacts, adaptation, constraints, limits and loss and damage. The interlinkages between science and policy in vulnerable regions, especially the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, have been at the heart of her research. Her work has been utilised in numerous forums including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in climate litigation cases.
Currently, she is working on the implications of overshooting the 1.5°C temperature limit for long-term adaptation planning, as part of the Horizon Europe funded PROVIDE project.
Emily holds a PhD in Geography from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) and Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden).
Blog posts
Publications
- Peer reviewed
- Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments Marina Andrijevic, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Tabea Lissner, Raya Muttarak, Keywan Riahi, Emily Theokritoff, Adelle Thomas, Nicole van Maanen and Edward Byers (2023)
- Interacting adaptation constraints in the Caribbean highlight the importance of sustained adaptation finance Emily Theokritoff, Adelle Thomas, Tabea Lissner, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Climate Risk Management, (2023)
- How is science making its way into national climate change adaptation policy? Insights from Burkina Faso Emily Theokritoff, Sarah Ann Lise D’haen (2021)
- A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change Lea Berrang-Ford, A. R. Siders, Alexandra Lesnikowski, Alexandra Paige Fischer, Max W. Callaghan, Neal R. Haddaway, Katharine J. Mach, Malcolm Araos, Mohammad Aminur Rahman Shah, Mia Wannewitz, Deepal Doshi, Timo Leiter, Custodio Matavel, Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Idowu Ajibade, Neha Chauhan, William Kakenmaster, Caitlin Grady, Vasiliki I. Chalastani, Kripa Jagannathan, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Asha Sitati, Giulia Scarpa, Edmond Totin, Katy Davis, Nikita Charles Hamilton, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Praveen Kumar, Brian Pentz, Nicholas P. Simpson, Emily Theokritoff, Delphine Deryng, Diana Reckien, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, Nicola Ulibarri, Alcade C. Segnon, Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Yuanyuan Shang, Luckson Zvobgo, Zinta Zommers, Jiren Xu, Portia Adade Williams, Ivan Villaverde Canosa, Nicole van Maanen, Bianca van Bavel, Maarten van Aalst, Lynée L. Turek-Hankins, Hasti Trivedi, Christopher H. Trisos, Adelle Thomas, Shinny Thakur, Sienna Templeman, Lindsay C. Stringer, Garry Sotnik, Kathryn Dana Sjostrom, Chandni Singh, Mariella Z. Siña, Roopam Shukla, Jordi Sardans, Eunice A. Salubi, Lolita Shaila Safaee Chalkasra, Raquel Ruiz-Díaz, Carys Richards, Pratik Pokharel, Jan Petzold, Josep Penuelas, Julia Pelaez Avila, Julia B. Pazmino Murillo, Souha Ouni, Jennifer Niemann, Miriam Nielsen, Mark New, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Gabriela Nagle Alverio, Cristina A. Mullin, Joshua Mullenite, Anuszka Mosurska, Mike D. Morecroft, Jan C. Minx, Gina Maskell, Abraham Marshall Nunbogu, Alexandre K. Magnan, Shuaib Lwasa, Megan Lukas-Sithole, Tabea Lissner, Oliver Lilford, Steven F. Koller, Matthew Jurjonas, Elphin Tom Joe, Lam T. M. Huynh, Avery Hill, Rebecca R. Hernandez, Greeshma Hegde, Tom Hawxwell, Sherilee Harper, Alexandra Harden, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Elisabeth A. Gilmore, Leah Gichuki, Alyssa Gatt, Matthias Garschagen, James D. Ford, Andrew Forbes, Aidan D. Farrell, Carolyn A. F. Enquist, Susan Elliott, Emily Duncan, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Shaugn Coggins, Tara Chen, Donovan Campbell, Katherine E. Browne, Kathryn J. Bowen, Robbert Biesbroek, Indra D. Bhatt, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Stephanie L. Barr, Emily Baker, Stephanie E. Austin, Ingrid Arotoma-Rojas, Christa Anderson, Warda Ajaz, Tanvi Agrawal, Thelma Zulfawu Abu (2021)
- Debt-for-climate swaps for small islands Adelle Thomas, Emily Theokritoff (2021)
- Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies Max Callaghan, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Shruti Nath, Quentin Lejeune, Thomas R. Knutson, Markus Reichstein, Gerrit Hansen, Emily Theokritoff, Marina Andrijevic, Robert J. Brecha, Michael Hegarty, Chelsea Jones, Kaylin Lee, Agathe Lucas, Nicole van Maanen, Inga Menke, Peter Pfleiderer, Burcu Yesil and Jan C. Minx, Nature, (2021)
- Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation Adelle Thomas, Emily Theokritoff, Alexandra Lesnikowski, Diana Reckien, Kripa Jagannathan, Roger Cremades, Donovan Campbell, Elphin Tom Joe, Asha Sitati, Chandni Singh, Alcade C. Segnon, Brian Pentz, Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Cristina A. Mullin, Katharine J. Mach, Leah Gichuki, Eranga Galappaththi, Vasiliki I. Chalastani, Idowu Ajibade, Raquel Ruiz-Diaz, Caitlin Grady, Matthias Garschagen, James Ford, Kathryn Bowen & Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative Team, Regional Environmental Change, (2021)
- Briefing papers
- Current and pledged adaptation finance scrapes the bottom of the barrel Tabea Lissner, Adelle Thomas, Emily Theokritoff (2022)
- Sustainable development through climate leadership - Opportunities for LDCs Anne Zimmer, Claire Fyson, Emily Theokritoff, Ziaul Haque and Tenzin Wangmo (2019)
- Points clés pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest du rapport spécial du GIEC sur le changement climatique et les terres Adama Faye, Quentin Lejeune, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, Oblé Neya, Emily Theokritoff, Sarah D'haen (2019)
- Key points for West Africa from the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land Adama Faye, Quentin Lejeune, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, Oblé Neya, Emily Theokritoff, Sarah D'haen (2019)
- Towards a solid science base: loss and damage in the IPCC special reports Emily Theokritoff, Claire Fyson, Adelle Thomas, Olivia Serdeczny, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (2019)