About

Richard Klein is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and professor of geography, climate policy and development at Linköping University. He is an expert on the science and policy of adaptation to climate change, with more than twenty-five years of experience in original research, science assessment and policy advice. In 2016, Richard received the prestigious Burtoni Award in recognition of his work on climate change adaptation. Much of Richard’s recent work has addressed the role of adaptation in the design and implementation of a global climate policy agreement, but he also studies societal and institutional challenges to adaptation and to the provision and use of climate services. Richard founded the pioneering academic journal Climate and Development, which first appeared in 2009 and of which he was editor-in-chief for ten years. He has been involved in IPCC since 1994 (including six times as lead author), and was co-director and chief scientist of the Nordic Centre of Excellence for Strategic Adaptation Research (NORD-STAR) from 2011 to 2016. In 2018–2019, Richard was the first director of science and innovation of the Global Center on Adaptation, and served as co-director of research of the Global Commission on Adaptation. In 2018–2020, he was co-chair of the Science Committee of the World Adaptation Science Programme. Before joining SEI in 2006, Richard spent almost eight years at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He began his career at the Institute for Environmental Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1992.
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Publications

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Identifying Countries that are Particularly Vulnerable to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change: An Academic or a Political Challenge?

Carbon & Climate Law Review

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
EUROPEAN CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH IMPACT AND ADAPTATION ASSESSMENT

Epidemiology
The human dimension of climate change; revisiting the Commission on Climate Change and Development in the polycrisis context

Climatic Change
The Recreational Value of Cley Marshes Nature Reserve: An Argument Against Managed Retreat?

Water and Environment Journal
Reply

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept?

Environmental Hazards

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?

Climate Policy
From regime‐building to implementation: Harnessing the UN climate conferences to drive climate action

WIREs Climate Change
Assessing adaptation progress for the global stocktake

Nature Climate Change
Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience

Climate Risk Management
Taking the uncertainty in climate-change vulnerability assessment seriously

Comptes Rendus Geoscience
Integrating mitigation and adaptation into climate and development policy: three research questions

Environmental Science & Policy
Group report: Global change and the European coast — climate change and economic development

Environmental Science
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

Science
COMMENTS

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Group report: Integrated assessment and future scenarios for the coast

Environmental Science
Climate change and coastal management on Europe’s coast

Environmental Science