Small island states - that have 65 million inhabitants  - are all strongly impacted by climate change. What can they do, given their limitations in terms of financial and human resources ? Carola Klöck, who has been working on this subject for years, explains to us  their adaptation policies, their influence in international negotiations…

Carola Kloeck  is an Associate Professor at the Sciences Po’s Centre of International Studies (CERI).  Carola’s research is located at the  interface of political science, human geography and development studies, and examines adaptation to climate change, and the politics of climate

change more generally.

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Additionnal ressources

• Carola Klöck, Elle Ledger, Climate justice through climate finance? Australia’s approach to climate finance in the Pacific">Climate justice through climate finance? Australia’s approach to climate finance in the Pacific. 2023. Pre-print


• Florian Weiler, Carola Klöck, Donor interactions in the allocation of adaptation aid: A network analysis">Donor interactions in the allocation of adaptation aid: A network analysis, Earth System Governance, Volume 7, 2021


• Klöck, Carola, Paula Castro, Florian Weiler, et al. (eds.). Coalitions in the climate change negotiations">Coalitions in the climate change negotiations. Abingdon, Oxon. Taylor & Francis Group. 2020. (Global environmental governance series (Online) 


• Nunn, P.D. et al. (2020). Adaptation to Climate Change: Contemporary Challenges and Perspectives">Adaptation to Climate Change: Contemporary Challenges and Perspectives. In: Kumar, L. (eds) Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. 

Recorded on 26 March 2023

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