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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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‘Anticipation and resilience’? Assessing the Government’s response to the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 June 2011

I read the UK Government’s Response to Lord Ashdown’s Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR) with great interest.

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Climate change, disasters and electricity generation

Publication - Discussion papers - 1 June 2011

Strengthening Climate Resilience Discussion Papers 8

Dr. Frauke Urban and Dr. Tom Mitchell

This report urges governments and energy companies to re-think their energy infrastructure in light of changing disaster risks due to climate change. It finds that unless governments and energy suppliers improve their planning for natural disasters, lives could be lost, economies damaged and ecosystems destroyed.

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Financing improvements in the governance of climate risk

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 13 May 2011

In this blog, Dr Tom Mitchell assesses the recent Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction meeting and contemplates the causes of current bias in climate adaptation financing.

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Solar panel on used for lighting village homes, energy, Sri Lanka.

How can national delivery of climate finance be secured effectively?

Event - Public event - 31 March 2011 11:00 - 14:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The event will provide the launch of the detailed results of the EDC 2020 project, funded by the European Commission. The workshop focuses on the national level delivery of climate finance, and explores:

What types of institutional structures are emerging to handle climate finance at national level;
How the interface between development cooperation and climate change is unfolding; and
What the main challenges are for effective delivery from donor and host country perspectives.

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Why is Britain ending support to UNISDR?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 March 2011

In a review of British aid, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction ranked bottom out of 43 agencies. Tom Mitchell responds in this blog for Reuters Alertnet.

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