Manjeet Dhakal
Head of LDC Support Team and Director, Climate Analytics South Asia Office
Email
Phone
+977 (0)1 5538660
Manjeet is Head of LDC Support Team at Climate Analytics (CA) and Director for Climate Analytics South Asia office. He provides technical inputs and analysis to the Chair and members of the LDC Group, and coordinates the support provided by Climate Analytics to the group. He also leads the CA team at the regional office in South Asia.
Manjeet also serves as an Advisor to the Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group at the multilateral process of the UNFCCC. In this role, he has worked with Nepal, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Bhutan and currently Senegal, and played a key part of the LDC efforts that led to the Paris Agreement in 2015. He has provided high-level climate leadership support for the LDCs’ officials and ministers in climate change UN-related processes over many years and is responsible for institutional capacity on climate issues. He has been following and participating in the UNFCCC negotiations for more than a decade.
Manjeet was honored in 2009 as ‘International Climate Champion’ by the British Council. He is also associated with School of Environmental Science and Management, Pokhara University in Nepal as an Adjunct Faculty for climate change.
Before joining Climate Analytics, Manjeet was Program Director at Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) where he worked for about five years and also served as the functional head of the organisation from June 2011 to April 2013. He remains active on the Board of CEN. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Management (MSc) from Pokhara University, Kathmandu. He regularly writes, teaches and presents on climate change related issues.
Opinion Editorials
Key priorities of Least Developed Countries in 2018, 12 March 2018 by Gebru Jember Endalew and Manjeet Dhakal
Chair of the LDC Group and chief advisor outline the priorities in 2018 and at COP24.
Did Marrakech climate talks deliver for world’s poorest? by Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu and Manjeet Dhakal, 5 December 2016, Climate Home
Lead envoy of Least Developed Countries bloc and chief advisor assess whether the COP22 talks last month offer hope dangerous warming will be stopped.
Blog posts
- 4 things to know from the first workshop on the loss and damage fund Olivia Serdeczny, Manjeet Dhakal, 10 May 2023
- 2023 will shape the Loss and Damage fund for years to come – have your say now Olivia Serdeczny, Manjeet Dhakal, Sneha Pandey., 09 January 2023
- Flooding in Pakistan: where vulnerability meets climate change, devastation can follow Manjeet Dhakal, Fahad Saeed, 21 September 2022
- Nepal’s ambitious climate target has socio-economic prosperity at its heart Sneha Pandey, Manjeet Dhakal, Abhishek Yadav, 05 February 2021
- COVID-19 another shock for vulnerable countries facing multiple crises Manjeet Dhakal, 29 May 2020
- En route to Katowice: Negotiators from Least Developed Countries prepare for COP24 Manjeet Dhakal, Kouassigan Tovivo, Fahad Saeed, 27 October 2018
Publications
- Briefing papers
- Synthesis of the Least Developed Countries' NDCs Climate Analytics (2017)
- The Warsaw International Mechanism - What has happened until now and what are the next big steps? Olivia Serdeczny, Manjeet Dhakal (2016)
- The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report and Its Implications for Nepal Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, reviewed by Michiel Schaeffer, Diana Reckien, Bill Hare, Olivia Serdeczny and Manjeet Dhakal, Climate Analytics, (2014)
- Intended Nationally- Determined Contributions (INDCs): Opportunity for Nepal Sandra Freitas, Fabio Sferra, Manjeet Dhakal, Marie Lindberg and Florent Baarsch, Climate Analytics, (2014)
- Reports
- Long term strategies: low carbon growth, resilience and prosperity for Least Developed Countries Nandini Das, Manjeet Dhakal, Damon Jones, MJ Mace, Victor Maxwell, Felipe Osses, Sneha Pandey, Fahad Saeed, Diego Torralva Becerra, Tenzin Wangmo, Alexandre Yédjannavo Zounmenou (2022)