About the Team

The Impacts, Adaptation and Loss & Damage Team is Climate Analytics’ scientific and strategic home for work on climate impacts, adaptation, loss and damage, and related economic analysis. The team generates rigorous, policy-relevant and decision-useful evidence on the risks of climate change, adaptation needs and limits, loss and damage, resilience-building, and the economic and social implications of climate impacts, particularly for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and other climate-vulnerable contexts. The team brings together expertise across adaptation science, climate risk, loss and damage, climate economics, and science-policy-diplomacy engagement. Its core purpose is to ensure that the organisation’s work on climate risk, adaptation, and loss and damage is scientifically robust, strategically coherent, relevant to the public and directly useful to decision-makers, particularly in SIDS and LDCs. Our objective is to deliver the science that those most exposed to climate change need to adapt, respond to losses and damage, and shape ambitious, equitable climate action in an era of likely 1.5°C overshoot. The team works in close partnership with the Earth System Science and 1.5°C Overshoot Team, the Diplomacy Team, the Implementation Strategies Team and the regional offices, to ensure that Climate Analytics’ work is grounded in the best available climate science and translated into policy-relevant insights. The Head of the Impacts Adaptation and Loss & Damage Team will be expected to actively maintain this connection so that Climate Analytics’ science remains coherent, integrated and policy-relevant. The Impacts, Adaptation and Loss & Damage Team and the Earth System Science and 1.5°C Overshoot Team are expected to work closely together as connected parts of one integrated science function in the organisation. The Head of this team will be responsible for maintaining strong links with the organisation’s science function, including through shared planning, early joint project and proposal design, coordinated quality assurance, and clear workflows on cross-cutting areas such as 1.5°C overshoot, climate risk, adaptation limits, loss and damage, science synthesis, tools, datasets, and IPCC and UNFCCC support.