Publications

This commentary on a paper in Nature Sustainability reviews how the study quantifies the impacts of sea-level rise on small island states and estimates the impacts in terms of cost, land loss and population exposure across all small islands worldwide.

This article traces how developing country negotiators used knowledge to further their interests in loss and damage negotiations from 2003 to 2013.

This study finds that the jet stream – air currents in the upper atmosphere – can synchronise extreme weather caused by climate change, resulting in crop failures in multiple countries at the same time.

This piece in Nature discusses what research could contribute to the design of the loss and damage fund.

Haitian communities were the locus of the majority of deaths and missing people attributed to the 2019 Hurricane Dorian and faced a series of distributional, procedural and recognition injustices. We investigate the historical factors and contemporary conditions of Haitian communities in The Bahamas that resulted in significant inequities, disproportional impacts and infractions of human rights.

This report looks into the application of a natural catastrophe model that calculates climate risk and potential of adaptation in the Caribbean.