Sasha Jattansingh works as a Loss and Damage Expert with the Climate Diplomacy Team where she works with Caribbean Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) to address critical issues related to loss and damage, adaptation and climate justice.
She is a climate finance and participatory environmental governance professional with over 13 years’ experience in the public, international development and civil society sectors in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean. She has a strong background in environmental and climate policy, climate finance, participatory governance, grants management, capacity building and science communication.
Before joining Climate Analytics, Sasha was the Commonwealth National Climate Finance Adviser to Antigua and Barbuda where she supported the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to strengthen its institutional and technical capacity to access and mobilise climate finance. Prior to this, Sasha has worked with the Global Green Growth Institute, United Nations Development Programme, Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, the University of the West Indies and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago on climate change and sustainable development issues.
Sasha holds a Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from the University of Auckland and an Honours Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Toronto. She is also a Commonwealth Scholar alumna.
Publications
- Sircar, Thomas, Serdeczny, Jattansingh. A review of loss and damage in the Caribbean (1994 to 2024). (2024)
- Climate justice: loss and damage and the right to development
- Jattansingh. Climate justice and loss and damage: perspectives from the global south. Austrian Development Policy Report 2023. 978-3-902906-69-4, Green Development Finance? From Climate Crisis to Global Justice (2024)
- Jattansingh, S. Defining a Regional Goal on Adaptation for the Caribbean. (2023)
