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Koko Warner

Koko Warner is a climate change expert who specializes in human migration and displacement and who holds a PhD in economics from the University of Vienna.[1] In 2014, the International Council for Science named Warner as one of the top 20 women making contributions to climate change debate.[2]

Koko Warner
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (PhD)
George Washington University (MA)
Brigham Young University (BS)
Scientific career
FieldsClimate change
Sustainability
InstitutionsUnited Nations University
University of Pennsylvania
Swiss Federal Institute for Snow & Avalanche Research
Munich Climate Insurance Initiative
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Websiteglobal.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse/expert/koko-warner

Education

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Warner attended Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah, and graduated in 1990.[3] After graduation, Warner attended Brigham Young University and completed her bachelor's degree in both international relations and economic development.[1] She attended the George Washington University and completed a master's degree in development and environmental economics and international development.[4][1]

In 1996, Warner was selected as a Fulbright scholar and studied at the University of Vienna where she gained a doctorate degree in economics in 2001.[5][1] She continued research at the University of Vienna until 2003.[1]

Academic career

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In 2006, Warner joined the United Nations University as an expert and section head in the Institute for Environment and Human Security.[6][1] Since 2019, Warner has been a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.[7] There, she speaks to students about the interdisciplinary aspects of climate-induced displacement and the challenges that current and future policymakers will face as climate change continues to alter the social and legal definitions of refugees.[8][9]

Professional career

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Climate insurance

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Warner joined the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, a program within ETH Zurich, a public research university in Switzerland in 2003.[10] There, she contributed to studies that analyzed the connections between economics and climate change.[11] From 2003 to 2006, Warner researched how global financial structures could be changed to help climate-related adaptation efforts, particularly in developing regions.[12]

Warner's work with climate finance and the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2005 led her to found the Munich Climate Change Insurance Initiative (MCII) in April 2005, where she served as executive director until 2016.[13][14] MCII's role as a think tank is to devise insurance strategies that can appropriately address climate change-related impacts.[15]

Migration and displacement

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The Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR) project, under the European Commission, brought on Warner as a contributing member in 2007. There, she and other experts studied how climate change affected human migration around the world.[16][17] One year later, in 2009, Warner helped to bring together the Climate Change, Environment, and Migration Alliance (CCEMA), an informal coalition to create and sustain a dialogue surrounding the complex nature of climate change.[18][17] CCEMA member organizations included the likes of the World Wildlife Fund, the Munich Re Foundation, and the United Nations University, among others, but the project was discontinued.[19][20]

Warner was a lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and sixth IPCC assessment reports on climate change in 2014 and 2021, respectively.[21][22][1] The same year, the International Council for Science named Warner as one of the top 20 women making contributions to climate change debate prior to the Paris climate accord discussions that would occur in 2015.[2][23]

In 2016, Warner left her positions at the United Nations University and MCII to join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a Manager on the Impacts, Vulnerability, and Risks subprogram.[24][1] There, she provides counsel to scientists and policymakers in their efforts to create climate-related mitigation and adaptation plans around the world.[24] In her role as a Climate Secretariat with the UNFCCC, Warner attends and speaks at the Conference of the parties convention (COP) yearly. She has spoken on human migration as a response to climate change at the yearly COP since at least 2017.[25] In 2021, Warner was a part of an effort to bring more indigenous voices to the COP to bring about the legitimization of local and traditional knowledge.[26] This initiative led to a greater emphasis on bringing local expertise to the conference in 2022.[27]

In August 2022, three months before COP27, Warner stressed the importance on following through with recommended migration and financial policies from past conferences and asked the United Nations to be a network that allows its member nations to lessen the impact of human displacement.[28] At COP27, Warner moderated a multinational panel on the broad impacts of human displacement and migration caused by climate change.[29]

Notable published works

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  • Warner, K. (2012). Human Migration and Displacement in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change: The Cancun Adaptation Framework and Potential for Future Action. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 30(6), 1061–1077. https://doi.org/10.1068/c1209j[30]
  • IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp.[31]
  • IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 3056 pp., doi:10.1017/9781009325844[32]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h LinkedIn (November 25, 2022). "Dr. Koko Warner". LinkedIn. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Redaktion (2014-08-13). "UNU-EHS: Koko Warner among top 20 women leading the climate change debate | Bonn Sustainability Portal". Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  3. ^ Nelson, Derek. "Davis High School Class Of 1990, Kaysville, UT". www.classcreator.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  4. ^ "Koko Warner - UNU Migration Network". migration.unu.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  5. ^ "BYU Graduate Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship". Deseret News. 1996-03-13. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  6. ^ UNU-EHS. "EHS Experts". Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  7. ^ "Koko Warner | Perryworldhouse". global.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  8. ^ "Global Shifts Colloquium: September 14-16, 2020 | Perryworldhouse". global.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  9. ^ "About Perry World House | Perryworldhouse". global.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  10. ^ "Organisation". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  11. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  12. ^ Hoff, Holger; Warner, Koko; Bouwer, Laurens M. (2005). "The Role of Financial Services in Climate Adaption in Developing Countries". Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung. 74 (2): 196–207. doi:10.3790/vjh.74.2.196. hdl:10419/99383. ISSN 1861-1559.
  13. ^ "About". Munich Climate Insurance Initiative. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  14. ^ unfccc.int https://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol#:~:text=In%20short,%20the%20Kyoto%20Protocol,accordance%20with%20agreed%20individual%20targets. Retrieved 2022-11-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ MCII (April 17, 2020). "Munich Climate Insurance Initiative Vision & Mission Statement" (PDF). Munich Climate Insurance Initiative. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  16. ^ CORDIS (October 3, 2012). "Environmental change and forced migration scenarios". European Commission.
  17. ^ a b United Nations (October 19, 2009). "Climate Change: Impacts and Threats, Panelist Short Biographies" (PDF). United Nations.
  18. ^ "ccema :: CCEMA inside". 2010-04-24. Archived from the original on 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  19. ^ "ccema :: Members". 2010-04-24. Archived from the original on 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  20. ^ "The Climate Change, Environment and Migration Alliance (CCEMA)". SEI. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  21. ^ "Chapter 7 : Risk management and decision making in relation to sustainable development — Special Report on Climate Change and Land". Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  22. ^ "Authors — Special Report on Climate Change and Land". Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  23. ^ The Road to Paris (2014). "Koko Warner: World authority on climate change and migration". The Road to Paris. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  24. ^ a b "UNSSC". sdtalks.unssc.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  25. ^ Ocean Policy Research Institute (October 27, 2017). ""Oceans Actions Day" at the 23rd Session of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC-COP23)". The Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Retrieved November 27, 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  26. ^ "Earth observation-based innovation by and for Indigenous women for climate change adaptation". UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  27. ^ ""The First Step Is To Turn To Your Neighbor" - OPEC Fund for International Development". opecfund.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  28. ^ "Key Messages around COP 27". United Nations Network on Migration. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  29. ^ displacement (2022-11-15). "COP27 Side Event - Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Climate Change". Disaster Displacement. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  30. ^ Warner, Koko (January 1, 2012). "Human Migration and Displacement in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change: The Cancun Adaptation Framework and Potential for Future Action". Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 30 (6): 1061–1077. Bibcode:2012EnPlC..30.1061W. doi:10.1068/c1209j. S2CID 154571013 – via SAGE Journals.
  31. ^ "AR5 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2014 — IPCC". Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  32. ^ "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability". www.ipcc.ch. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
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