Author:
Lisa McNamara

Author:
Lisa McNamara

Lisa leads CDKN's knowledge management work, focussed on providing developing countries with useful and relevant knowledge to inform climate action.

Lisa previously led CDKN’s Africa knowledge management programme from 2011-2014, and then provided strategic input and oversight of both the KM programme and CDKN's delivery of country programmes in Kenya and Rwanda from 2014-2017.

Prior to 2011, Lisa worked as a climate change specialist in the Environmental Management Department of the City of Johannesburg (CoJ), where she focussed on city-level adaptation planning, awareness-raising initiatives, as well as sustainable energy in low-income housing. Her Master’s degree focussed on the governance of climate change within the City of Johannesburg municipality, in particular the management of urban flood risk in low-income areas. She holds a BA honours in Development Studies and MSc in Environmental Studies.

Most recent content from this author

Artículo destacado
1st December 2023
Lecciones para el GST: aprender de las y los pioneros locales en adaptación para mejorar la acción climática transformadora Un hallazgo destacado de la primera Revisión Global (GST) de la CMNUCC es que los países deben respaldar "transformaciones sistémicas" que incorporen el desarrollo resiliente al clima para intensificar nuestra respuesta a la crisis climática. Pero, ¿cómo pueden los estados miembros de la ONU en la COP28 responder a este llamado sin tener una idea tangible de cómo se ve esto en la práctica?
Feature
29th November 2023
Lessons for the GST: Learning from local adaptation pioneers to enhance transformational climate action A headline finding of the first-ever UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST) is that countries need to support “systems transformations” that mainstream climate resilient development to step up our response to the climate crisis. But how can UN member states at COP28 respond to this call without a tangible sense of what this looks like in practice?
Resource
13th February 2023
The role of knowledge brokers in advancing climate action In the climate arena and more widely, there are many terms to describe activities within the ‘knowledge-to-action’ spectrum – what CDKN terms ‘knowledge brokering’. This CDKN journal article and accompanying Essentials brief summarises how CDKN defines and understands climate knowledge brokering.
Feature
21st November 2022
COP27 changes climate finance architecture with loss and damage decision, urges MDBs to transform Mairi Dupar and Lisa McNamara of CDKN assess how the COP27 decision and associated policy developments have the potential to reshape climate finance in 2023-24.
Resource
14th November 2022
Nature-based Solutions for urban climate resilience in South Asia: Case studies from Bangladesh, India and Nepal This compendium provides concrete examples of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) implemented in urban areas in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. 15 detailed case studies have been documented to assist governments at all levels as well as practitioners, NGOs, civil society and academics to plan, implement, replicate and scale NbS.
Feature
20th April 2022
What’s coming up for climate finance in 2022? Key updates from the UNFCCC’s Standing Committee on Finance Emma Baker, Samson Mbewe and Lisa McNamara report from the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, held on 22nd and 23rd March 2022
Feature
17th June 2021
Countries revisit roles of climate finance at UNFCCC Long Term Finance Workshop CDKN's coverage of climate finance at the UNFCCC meetings continues, with reporting on long term finance. 
Resource
4th June 2021
Guía: Cómo contribuir a la información sobre cambio climático en Wikipedia CDKN y Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, han lanzado una nueva guía para los profesionales del cambio climático sobre cómo contribuir con información sobre el cambio climático en Wikipedia.
Resource
14th April 2021
Online engagement in the global South - Perspectives, challenges and options This working paper shares the experiences and challenges climate practitioners in the global South have faced in transitioning to working online because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights some lessons learned for organising inclusive and effective engagements - at the international, national and sub-national levels.
Feature
27th January 2021
CAS2021: Accelerating climate-resilient economies in Africa There was a clear call for Africa to forge a new path towards climate-resilient development at the Africa anchoring event of the Climate Adaptation Summit - seizing the opportunities of green technologies and jobs. Lisa McNamara of CDKN reports.
Feature
7th December 2020
Tracking progress towards long-term finance under the UNFCCC Kamleshan Pillay, Mairi Dupar and Lisa McNamara of CDKN report from the Long Term Finance wor
News
30th November 2020
What’s on the climate finance horizon in 2021? Latest progress update of UNFCCC’s Standing Committee on Finance Kamleshan Pillay, Mairi Dupar and Lisa McNamara report from the Standing Committee on Finance meeting on 24 November 2020 - part of the virtual United Nations' Climate Dialogues.