Acknowledgements

The authors and the CVF-V20 secretariat would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to all at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), the academic arm and global think tank of the United Nations, for leading this book publication project from the very start, in particular, Florian Waldschmidt, Project Manager, and Maxime Souvignet, Team Lead, Climate Risk Analytics, Munich Climate Risk Insurance Initiative (MCII).

We also acknowledge the following individuals and organisations who played a pivotal role in the creation of Climate Vulnerability Monitor, 3rd Edition: A Planet on Fire (CVM3), which provided the invaluable research foundation for this book – and to those who further contributed to this book:

• Sara Jane Ahmed, CVM3 Coordinating Editor, Managing Director and V20 Finance Advisor, and Founder and Executive Director of the Financial Futures Center; Renato Redentor Constantino, International Policy Advisor to the CVF Secretary-General, and former Executive Director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), Philippines; Nazrin Camille Castro, Director of Membership and Partnership Coordination from the CVF-V20 Secretariat and Alexandra Jewel Rosas, Associate from the CVF-V20 Secretariat.

• Prof Dr Michiel Schaeffer, Lead Scientific Editor on CVM3, Dr Rosanne Martyr, and Dr Fahad Saeed, all at Climate Analytics, the international non-profit climate science and policy institute headquartered in Berlin, Germany, as well as staff and associates across the globe, including regional offices in Togo and Nepal.

• Dr Marina Romanello, CVM3 Co-Lead Editor (Health), of University College London, and her colleagues, including Laura Donovan and Maria Walawender, at the Lancet Countdown, a multi-disciplinary, international research collaboration that monitors the links between health and climate change.

• Florent Baarsch, CVM3 Co-Lead Editor (Economic), Mike Girling, and Issa Awal Mohamed, all at finres, the data-driven organisation that provides support to public and private investors in understanding and evaluating climate risks and adaptation solutions.

• Alexander Ebhart, Project Manager, CVF & V20 Joint Multi-Donor Fund and Esra Buttanri, Portfolio Senior Manager – Climate Action from United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

We extend our sincere appreciation to the following individuals for their willingness to participate in fresh interviews for this book:

• Nguyen Thi Nhật Anh, Advisor in Centre for Social Research Development, Vietnam.

• Sixto Andrés Ávila Iguarán, Indigenous leader (palaima, Wayuu Apalanchi), Colombia.

• Iria Touzon Calle, UNDRR, Bonn.

• Nisreen Elsaim, UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, Sudan.

• Alexander Ebhart, Project Manager, CVF & V20 Joint Multi-Donor Fund, UNOPS.

• Jason Glaser, Founder, La Isla Network, Nicaragua.

• Gurel Gurkan, Head of Programme, UNOPS.

• Abdulla Hassan, Maldives Ministry of Finance, Debt Management Executive.

• Christon Herbert, development specialist at the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), Barbados.

• Jevanic Henry, UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, Saint Lucia.

• Fathimath Mohamed Didi, Maldives Ministry of Finance, Debt Management Executive.

• Animesh Kumar, Head of UNDRR, Bonn.

• Sweta Koirala, public health researcher, NEDS Nepal.

• Ilaisaane Lieti (Saane) Lolo, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Ministry of Finance, Tonga.

• Sandith Samarasinghe, Regional Director for Pacific and Indian Ocean, CVF-V20 Secretariat and former Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

• Daniela Saade Ortega, Assessor in the Ministry of Finance, Government of Colombia.

• Mohamed Shahudh, Economist, UNDP Maldives.

• Surendra Tamang, former construction worker and kidney dialysis patient, Nepal.

• Swenja Surminski, chair of MCII and distinguished Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.

• Carlos Augusto Uribe Perez, UNDRR, Bonn.

• Víctor Manuel Yalanda, Indigenous leader (Ampiuile), Colombia.

• Evelyne Ninsiima, Founder and President of Green Environment Promotion (GEP), Uganda.

• Jibon Kumar Ray, school student, Bangladesh

• Md Nannu Molla, pedal rickshaw driver, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Geneva Oliverie, Deputy Director for International Finance and Trade at the CVF-V20 Secretariat and former development specialist at the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), Barbados.

• Dina Zayed, Programme Director at the Climate Emergency Collaboration Group (CECG).

Special thanks to Nakeeyat Dramani Sam, youth activist and poet, and CVF Thematic Ambassador for Youth, Ghana, who not only gave her perspective in an interview but also wrote a poem to accompany this book.

And to our in-country teams at the CVF who were instrumental in sourcing the Impact Stories – all of which are available on https://climatevulnerabilitymonitor.org/stories/ – from the following inspirational individuals, who were further quoted within this book:

• Jameson Alphonse, organic aquaculturist, Saint Lucia.

• Ramon Apla-on, community elder at the Barangay Marupok, Sipalay City, Philippines.

• Kamasa Dorothy Azimi, Ghanaian agriculturist.

• Michael Larbi Aburam, smallholder farmer, Eastern Ghana.

• Nadia Cazaubon, Caribbean Program Director, Waterways (NGO).

• Hafijul Islam Khan, Bangladeshi lawyer working for climate justice.

• Thelma Jaromay, peasant farmer, Philippines.

• Isaac Nemuta, Maasai tribe, pastoralist, Kajiado county, Kenya.

• Zeynab Wandati, journalist, Kenya.

Tim Smedley would like to extend his personal thanks to the following for their help, generosity, time, love, guidance, occasional translation, and top-notch networking skills (not necessarily in that order):

• Dr Patricia Brekke

• Agnes and Frey Brekke-Español

• Dr Jody Aked

• Isabelle and Ewan Jones

To Jiniya Afroze, Asif Zabed and Nashirul Haque at Terre des Hommes for their generosity in voluntarily sourcing, conducting, and transcribing field interviews in Bangladesh.

And of course to our publishers, Cambridge University Press, its peer reviewers, production team, and in particular Dr Matt Lloyd, Publisher: Earth and Environmental Sciences.

All your commitment and contributions have been instrumental in the development of this book.