Taking the Temperature: Climate Fragility vs Climate Unity


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Camilla Born has spent the past six months in the UK Cabinet Office as the Deputy Director of Strategy for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), and Advisor to the COP26 President Elok Sharma.
Prior to her secondment, Camilla led the development of the UK’s approach to adaptation and resilience for the UN Climate Action Summit at the UK’s Department for International Development.
Camilla is Senior Policy Advisor in Climate Diplomacy, Risk and Security at E3G, an independent European climate change think tank, focusing on delivering high leverage political interventions to shape transformational international outcomes.
Camilla is also an Associate Senior Fellow with the Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute (SIPRI). From 2017-18 she held the role of Director for the Expert Working Group on Climate-related Security Risks and advised the Swedish government during their membership on the UN Security Council. The Expert Working Group sought to strengthen climate risk informed decision-making and programming across the UN system and supported the creation of the UN’s Climate Security Mechanism.
From early 2011 Camilla worked with the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC), holding the role of director from 2013-2014.
Camilla is the Chair of Climate Outreach, one of Europe’s leading experts in climate change communications.
Camilla has a Bsc in Geography from the University of Edinburgh.