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Tom Mitchell

Head of Programme, Climate and Environment

Dr. Tom Mitchell is Head of Climate Change at ODI, having previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He is also a Senior Advisor in the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, in which he oversees the research and knowledge management components. Tom is a serving IPCC WG2 Co-ordinating Lead Author of the Special Report on Extreme Events and Disasters and a Lead Author of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report. His research is focused on climate-related disaster risk management, adaptation finance and the links between climate action and poverty reduction.

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Tackling exposure: Placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 May 2012

May 2012

Dr Tom Mitchell, Dr Reinhard Mechler and Katie Harris

This paper aims to support decision-makers to better understand the role of national economic policy, fiscal policy and development planning in disaster risk management, and encourage more concerted action to tackle exposure to disasters

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Separated at birth, reunited in Rio? A roadmap to bring environment and development back together

Publication - Discussion papers - 8 May 2012

ODI Background Notes

Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott and Tom Mitchell

Linking development and environmental objectives through policy initiatives is not an easy task. This Background Note sets out to explain why reconciling the two agendas has been so difficult at a practical level, and suggests how Rio+20 could start to bridge the gaps between the two.

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Will climate-related disasters test humanitarian relief to destruction?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 28 March 2012

'If we do not want to live in a neverending disaster movie, we need to get serious about linking our carbon consumption to the changing weather-map.'

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Preparing for the future? Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change

Event - Public event - 25 January 2012 10:30 - 12:00 (GMT+00)

This event launches a new report - 'Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change: the role of development interventions' - exploring the role that development interventions are playing in helping people to face the future challenges of change – including climate change.

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Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation

Event - Conference - 24 - 25 January 2012

Tom Mitchell partakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Government of Norway to craft a future outreach series for the Special Report on Climate Extremes ’by learning from the delivery of the Oslo outreach event’.

The conference can be viewed online here.

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