Peace‚ Climate‚ and Sustainable Development

IPI’s Peace, Climate, and Sustainable Development program plays a central role in supporting multilateral negotiations on climate change and innovative thinking on climate action and sustainable development. At a time when carbon emissions are continuing to rise and some countries are rolling back their commitments to climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this work is more critical than ever. IPI is continuing to work with its partners who remain committed to climate action, particularly members of the Alliance of Small Island States, to raise global ambitions on climate mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage. This approach has allowed IPI to play a unique role in climate negotiations—providing technical and diplomatic support while maintaining an independent perspective that can bridge traditional divides. IPI’s approach to peace, climate, and sustainable development includes:

  • Supporting vulnerable countries in achieving more ambitious and urgent action on climate change by embedding technical support in their negotiating teams
  • Convening diverse stakeholders in climate negotiations to build trust and identify areas of common ground across North–South divides
  • Developing innovative approaches to climate finance that can help close the implementation gap for adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage
  • Building relationships with key actors in climate finance, including multilateral development banks, to take forward ideas from theory into practice
  • Track-Two Dialogues and Strengthening Diplomacy on Climate Action
    IPI supports leaders, primarily from developing countries, in international climate negotiations, particularly on adaptation and loss and damage. In addition, IPI supports the COP presidencies throughout the year by organizing retreats to foster innovative thinking and provide clarity on upcoming negotiations. Amid growing attacks on climate science, IPI also provides strategic advice to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Read more
  • Climate Adaptation and Resilience
    Adaptation has been a cornerstone of IPI’s work on climate action. IPI advises the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). IPI has also attended and contributed to workshops on designing the GGA indicators to help ensure they are technically sound, useful, and not derailed by politics. Read more
  • Financing for Climate and Development
    IPI is supporting the development of a roadmap for implementation of the New Collective Quantified Goal, which was one of the major outcomes of COP29. To address the massive financing gap for achieving the SDGs, IPI is also exploring innovative financing mechanisms and building awareness of the financing challenges facing developing countries. In addition, IPI is promoting global cooperation on climate taxes and levies and international tax cooperation. Read more

Staff

, Director of Global Initiatives and Head of Peace, Climate, and Sustainable Development

Jimena Leiva Roesch joined IPI in April 2015. From 2009 to March 2015, Jimena was at the Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the UN in New York, where she last served as Counselor. Guatemala and...

, Policy Analyst

Jonah Harris is a Policy Analyst in the Peace, Climate, and Sustainable Development Program at the International Peace Institute. At IPI, Jonah follows the international climate negotiations under...

, Program Manager

Olivia Fielding is the Program Manager for the Peace, Climate, and Sustainable Development Program at the International Peace Institute. She is based in New York, where she works full-time on...

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