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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Debra Roberts presents the findings from the Overshoot report that was released in early September (I saw NO news coverage of it at all). We are basically looking at a 1,8-1,9c world *if we are lucky*

A speaker in front of three screens in a plenary hall.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Opening of AFD adaptation conference: There is still a window of opportunity for adaptation…and we need to apply the knowledge that we already have.

The scene backed by screens for the opening plenary of the AFD conference on adaptation. There are three screens with people in front of them.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

[Not climate or politics related] Can anyone advise me on a cat asthma inhaler? There are such price differences and I wonder why. For a scared, older female cat who is having daily attacks. We are in Germany so may not be able to get all brands but any help is useful 🐈‍⬛❤️

A stock image of a black cat receiving asthma treatment with a transparent plastic device. There is a woman with brown hair in the background who is administering the treatment with an inhaler.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Här var det några som hade missat hur rödgrön & vänster den här professorn är…

Bild på propaganda från Sverigedemokraterna inför valet 2026. Bilden visar ett kuvert med texten 'brev från Sverige'. Och sen ligger det en broschyr från partiet med två kor på. Båda ligger på en ljusgrå köksbänk

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In the middle of a forest on Fårö, Gotland (Sweden) is Ankan [the Duck] City. Complete with its own White House, the members of which are all apparently being deported.

A photo of a small homemade wooden house standing in the forest. The ‘house’ has one room and there are plastic ducks inside it. The ducks have US style hats on. The house is labelled’White House’ but has a sign below that says ‘Deported’. In the background are several tall pine trees.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is what happens when you lie about that climate change is ‘fake’ and then have to stick to your own fake story…ridiculous.

Heading from the BBC website that says Trump says US being ‘invaded by filthy air’ as he threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfires

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Even my Greek rescue cat has barely moved for the last three days - this heat wave is serious. I can work from home, downstairs, but not everyone can be sheltered from this. I hope this can be a reminder to politicians (and the public) that life as usual does not work in a changing climate.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At UNFCCC SB64, which is sort of ticking along without too much fuss this time. The GGA is getting stuck on the same old issues (do we need/want technical experts?). The general mood otherwise is pretty sleepy I would say.

A photo of the World Conference Centre in Bonn where the annual climate change conference is held. The photo looks over two floors, and shows large glass ceiling, an escalator and many delegates.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hamburg central station 7 am on a grey Saturday if you are wondering. I missed my connection due to the delay but there is another train coming soon.

Picture of a red train at the station in Hamburg. Two blue information signs are hanging from the ceiling. There are no people visible in the photo. Grey sky in the background

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Please welcome a fabulous new critical adaptation scholar: Fabiola Espinoza Córdova successfully defended her beautiful PhD thesis called ‘Making meaning of adaptation under a changing climate’ today at Lund University.

The cover of Fabiola Espinoza Córdova’s PhD thesis called ‘Making meaning of adaptation under a changing climate’ featuring artwork showing coastal livelihoods.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Three hours later…back in Köln hbf and the same platform 5. Train was due to depart at 8.16 and now will depart at 11.01. With a regional sightseeing warm up tour toward Düsseldorf in between…

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Training it up from Bonn to Lund to examine a PhD at LUCSUS tomorrow. Hoping @deutschebahn.com and DSB have their acts together so I don’t miss my critical change in Hamburg.

A photo taken from the escalator looking up at the glass roof of the Cologne main train station.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Oh just what a world needs, AI features to support an already dysfunctional global policy process…

The title and first paragraphs of an email to SB64 participants about AI features of the UNFCCC online platform.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Very impressive presentations today on national scientific assessments on climate change adaptation in India. Extremely well conceptualised. Strong participation of social scientists and women. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Picture of a dias with a speaker and a screen showing a slide. The slide says National Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change in India

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Thanks for a stimulating panel today at the @ec.europa.eu Climate Pact event. And thanks for making space for these powerful Latvian musicians, activists and environmentalists, Be Brave to Act.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

For those invested in this or with an interest in cats who pee in inappropriate places: I did take him to the vet and he has crystals in his bladder, which are painful. Likely caused by ph change from stress. We are treating him now. Also may have diabetes 😵‍💫. Poor Mio.

A cat sitting on a table with a window and a poster behind him. The cat has a pink nose, and white face with grey tabby markings on his ears, and the top of his head. He has a small dot on his nose.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Join us online on 4 February between 13-14 CET for a discussion on 'The Politics of Dry Feet: the Political Economy of Flood Risk Management in Indonesia' (fabulous title). Sign up here: www.iss.nl/en/events/po...

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A personal low in 2025 was the death of my 19-year old cat from Thailand. Although he died from old age, he leaves a massive gap in our household. Three humans and three felines are left without the star around which we all rotated...

A picture of a grey/brown tabby cat with green eyes and a red nose. In the background is a pink and blue striped rug. The photo is a bit blurry on the nose of the cat.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m feeling worried about the future of the planet so I am sharing a picture of my chunky deaf one-eyed rescue cat from Greece.

A black and white pink-nosed, one-eyed longhaired cat lying curled up on an orange, pink and white blanket.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Super excited to spend today and tomorrow getting to know @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social as a new member of their Advisory Committee (although I also had to sneak out and teach for two hours…students first 😌).

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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)?

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

So the danger of maladaptation raised by this paper (implicitly) is that we almost normalise it and suggest that better planning is enough to address it. Here I want to point back to the final paragraph of a comment by me and Aditi Mukherji from last year (10.1126/science.adq7821) 6/

Picture of text that reads 'The issues described above exist in large
part because adaptation finance is subject
to conditionalities that require recipient
countries to overcome enormous barriers
simply to access funds. Importantly, however,
the impacts of climate change are
caused by both greenhouse gas emissions
as well as extractivist, repressive
policy approaches by the Global North
against the Global South—and those
needing adaptation finance have the
least responsibility in both cases. A
climate reparations agenda would instead
give finance to those affected by
climate change without, for example, asking
for evidence of how adaptation and development
activities are separate, or putting
stringent conditions to prove that adaptation
interventions are not maladaptive (because
it is impossible to predict what will
be maladaptive ex ante), or making funding
conditional on metrics and measurements
of effectiveness (because again, not all adaptation
effectiveness can be measured).
Our hope is that the arguments that we
have described here will be obsolete in the
very near future when an architecture of
just climate finance is in place.'

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Start of the Accountable Adaptation symposium at @ucl.ac.uk with the brilliant @susannahfisher.bsky.social pointing to the importance of thinking about the politics of adaptation measurement.

A photo of a conference room with a person at the front speaking to an audience seated in red chairs.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Here we go! @tyndallcentre.bsky.social 25 anniversary: Critical decade for climate action conference.

Photo of a lecture hall with a man standing in front wearing an orange t-shirt and a grey suit. Behind him is a screen with the name of the conference. The audience is full of scientists.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Before I even arrived on campus, sometime during the summer of 1993 Harold sent a letter to all the incoming students who had said they wanted to study environmental science/studies. I think there were about 15-20 (???) of us who were selected to be part of Harold's special incoming class group.

A poorly aligned photo of a letter on Brown University letterhead from the Centre for Environmental Studies director Harold Ward encouraging students to select environmental studies as our advisory class (details of how this worked are fuzzy in my head and the letter is not complete in the photo so I it is probably not well explained here). The letter is signed by Harold Ward.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Demo in Bonn against the racists. #fckafd you are wasting your time here, we know you are just about hate.

Police and demonstrators against the german fascist party shown in the centre on Bonn.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Probably not again! Forgot about this T-shirt that I purchased in the gift shop in Pyongyang (!!!) in 2011 when Senior was still in power. What a wild trip to do some capacity building on climate policy.

A grey tshirt with the print ‘See you in Pyongyang’ in English and Korean. The North Korean flag is also printed between the languages.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Maybe you can see in the picture? It is shorter and has a kink in it. He uses the hook to hold his tail when he cleans it, clever boy.

A picture of a grey tabby cat tail in a person’s hand. The tail is kinked, which means it is not straight. In this case it is bent back on itself.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Our Thai soi (street) cat from Aree/Bangkok made it to 19 - with a passport full of stamps from 3 continents. He is our special old man, with a typical kinked Southeast Asian tail. The sweetest loverboy on the planet. Starting his 20th year on the planet in good spirits (and a body full of meds...).

A grey tabby with a clear M mark in his stripes on his forehead lying on a grey sofa beside a long white sheepskin and in front of two sofa pillows with patterns. The cat has green eyes and is looking into the camera.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Not just Deutsche Bahn f*cks up your life (my day yesterday) but Øresundståget wants to be just as bad (my day today). ‘Signalfel’ and we all had to get off but the train still continued (to another destination). Apparently the next train will be ok?

People with suitcases walking on a train platform in Sweden seen from behind.

TV screens in a Swedish train station displaying an error message instead of the train timetable.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In case you are worried: they do have heads.

Two tabby cats sleeping in a grey and green chair

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

New discovery in Bonn, Germany: Cats that can magically retract their heads.

Two grey tabby cats lying in a green chair with a grey fleece blanket. The cats are curled up in each other and their heads are nowhere to be seen.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hej Sveriges Radio här kommer bara en liten påminnelse om att det inte är passande att ha bilder på folk som roar sig på stranden när värmeböljan i Europa i år ganska säkert är pga klimatkrisen.

En bild tagen från Sveriges Radios hemsida med rubriken Snart kommer värmen - uppemot 30 grader väntas i norr som visar mycket folk på en strand.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Please compare this with the photo I took 3 months ago at the Musée des Civilisations noires in Dakar, which also has an exhibit on restitution. Indeed, here there is only one artefact returned. 5/ mcn-sn.com

A photo of a single case in a museum with very bare, white walls. The floor is dark. A light shines on the case, which contains a dagger, although it is not visible in the photograph.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is what the room looked like (sadly I think I accidentally deleted the other photos from the room so it's very crooked!). These do not look like returned objects. 4/

A dark room in a museum with wooden artefacts that are illuminated and inside glass cases. You cannot make out much detail of the artefacts themselves, but at least ten are visible in the photograph. The photograph is crooked since the photographer is a professor who only has an old iphone and is apparently incapable of taking decent photos.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The SB62 talks have lots of things to resolve, but the hallways were definitely emptier yesterday, probably with fewer observers (NGOs, etc). Still the dedicated climate justice activists were there as always.

Protestors standing inside the UNFCCC SB62 venue with banners demanding payment into the loss and damage fund.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social event ‘Green at Home, Harm Abroad’ has started @unibonn.bsky.social with an audience of engaged activists.

Five seated panellists and one standing moderator in a university lecture hall. In the foreground are the backs of chairs.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Was very proud of Valentina Nyame presenting on her research today in the context of the Research Dialogue 17 at SBSTA62. @adaptationhive.bsky.social

Photo of a researcher standing beside an a academic poster presenting research on gender and climate change. The photo is taken in the World Conference Centre in Bonn.

Photo of a researcher from Ghana presenting her work to another researcher from India. They are standing in front of an academic poster in a conference setting.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The only thing that matters is finance. All the other agenda items could literally be dropped.

And article from this morning’s ECO talking about how the agenda has not yet been adopted at SB62.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Here we go. #SB62. My first one was SB8 in 1998. Hope to see some of you around the conference centre.

A picture of a badge with a photo and a name on it for the UNFCCC SB62 meeting in Bonn.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'm very excited to co-host this event by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social and Christliche Initiative Romero e.V. on Wednesday next week in Bonn at the main @unibonn.bsky.social building. 'Green At Home, Harm Abroad: Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation'. It starts at 18h so come join us!

A poster advertising the event 'Green at Home, Harm Abroad' that will be held on Wed 18 June at the University of Bonn main building from 18-19.30.

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