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Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de‬•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 4 rescue 🐈‍⬛ •🇸🇪

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 19

Just for the record, a complete 🧵 of my 🧵 on adaptation.
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Part I

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 19

Since COP29 is turning into an adaptation COP, I am bringing some of my past threads on adaptation from another place here.

PART I: A 🧵 on adaptation and development over the years, digging deep back to the 1990s through to current scholarship.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12h

You were super!

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Faisal Bin Islam @faisalfbi.bsky.social · 15h

It was a privilege to share my research at the @adaptationfutures.bsky.social conference on #BeyondAdaptation—#Justice and #Maladaptation.

Key message: Need to examine the power and knowledge underpinning the scalar dimension of maladaptation.

@ritodhi.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 20h

Well, if you missed it, these were our discussion questions. Thoughts?

Group Work
1. Is Maladaptation inevitable if we don't address deeper structural issues? If yes, inevitability? If no, why?
now to do we mitigate some of this
2. The goal of highlighting the potential for Maladaptation is to improve Adaptation interventions. But, it can be hijacked by
'climate deniers' and 'climate obstructors' to undermine policy/implementation. How do we address this?
3. Should Maladaptation be connected only with the final results of Adaptation action, or should it also address the impacts of various phases of the Adaptation process (baselines
How would we evaluate this?
assessments, design, implementation and M&E and others)?

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 22h

If you’re @adaptationfutures.bsky.social today and not in Conway 5 at our *maladaptation* session, what are you doing??!

Come and join us, the workshop starts at 8.30.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. ‘Stories are the toolkit’ by @sydney.edu.au instead of a risk reduction toolkit. Check out the vignettes here. www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...

Stories are the toolkit

Join us for Stories are the Toolkit, a six-part podcast series produced by the Sydney Environment Institute, highlighting the diverse, informal, and seemingly spontaneous efforts that have been essent...

www.sydney.edu.au

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, speed talks at conferences *do work* - you can get a lot out of 3 minutes of key ideas, findings and points. I think we should eliminate long talks at conferences and just ask people to do quick talks.
Appreciating this @adaptationfutures.bsky.social

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh. Usually, not usual. I am grumpy *and* bad at typing.

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

...But @adaptationfutures.bsky.social, there is so much more depth to the research and thinking presented at AF2025 compared with past AFs and indeed many presentations, policies & plans out there.

Intersectional perspectives, recognition of knowledge plurality, all of which are critical.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

After Day 1 of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social, thoughts: First, for those who don't know me, I am usual a critical grump when it comes to adaptation. Most adaptation is barely adaptation in my view, it doesn't force us to rethink development, power structures, etc. and therefore cannot be effective.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 2d

160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇
👉global-tipping-points.org

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Hemskt

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

...all that labour will be a waste (we can also talk about wasted resources, but it's not just about money). So we need to rethink adaptation and do it better.

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Midway through Day 1 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social - thoughts: There are lots of people here doing adaptation work. Climate change is causing so much labour: research, planning etc. But if we don't rethink development, and our guiding mantra of growth, we will fail. And...

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Opening of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social 2025!

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh this thread went places I was not expecting 🙃

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 3d

Eek. Poor Freddi

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 3d

Another reason why behaviour change has to be a top priority for climate policy.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 4d

🤣😆🤣😆😂

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White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump

A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed "politics over peace" in awarding the coveted award to Venezuela's opposition leader.

www.bbc.com

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 8d

🎥
What is #ClimateChange?

Why we need to take #ClimateAction

Watch ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0XT...

PL RP 🩷💚💙
@jo-wilson.bsky.social @mls0308.bsky.social
@debmd.bsky.social @melissa0numbers.bsky.social
@pinkyjones.bsky.social @crabbyslathers.bsky.social
@blazeblaz.bsky.social #climate #Klima

What is Climate Change? (explainer video with extra detail)

YouTube video by My Zero Carbon

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 5d

And day 5: Peace. Finally, a woman from the Global South.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 6d

Day 4, literature: thanks to BBC for mentioning this after a man from central Europe is announced:

’The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded 118 times since it began in 1901 but only 18 women have won.’
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

www.bbc.com

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 6d

In person only, due to the nature of the topic.

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 6d

Is anyone going to be at the Adaptation Futures conference next week? If so, please join us on Tuesday from 14:30-15:15 in the Piano Chamber, where Salomé Bazin (salomebazin.com) is going to guide us through an exercise to approach the emotions caused by being a human in a changing climate.

Salome Bazin

salomebazin.com

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3- Chemistry: three men, but one born in Jordan. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”

www.nobelprize.org

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