Mikkel Funder
@mikkel-funder.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies. Climate politics, natural resource governance & development. Research w. partners in Africa/Asia.
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Mikkel Funder
@mikkel-funder.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Locally Led Adaptation works. Our joint report examined locally led climate change adaptation in practice in Kenya and Tanzania, with promising results. www.diis.dk/en/research/...
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation
Climate change adaptation isn’t just about crops, infrastructure, or income - it’s also about people’s social strategies. Our new article led by Paul Stacey examines how the concept of "social navigation” can help unpack this. It's Open Access and can be downloaded here: www.diis.dk/en/research/...
August 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Climate change adaptation isn’t just about crops, infrastructure, or income - it’s also about people’s social strategies. Our new article led by Paul Stacey examines how the concept of "social navigation” can help unpack this. It's Open Access and can be downloaded here: www.diis.dk/en/research/...
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🧭 Can bureaucrats help advance #IndigenousRights?
R. Kløcker Larsen et al. analyse cases across 4 continents:
– States often sustain colonial agendas
– Some officials enable decolonizing actions
– Introduce “institutional braiding” to describe such agency
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
R. Kløcker Larsen et al. analyse cases across 4 continents:
– States often sustain colonial agendas
– Some officials enable decolonizing actions
– Introduce “institutional braiding” to describe such agency
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Finding the cracks: How do frontline officials maneuver state institutions to advance Indigenous rights to land and environment?
This paper challenges the monolithic portrayal of the state as inherently ‘bad’ when it comes to implementation of Indigenous rights. Offering a compa…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🧭 Can bureaucrats help advance #IndigenousRights?
R. Kløcker Larsen et al. analyse cases across 4 continents:
– States often sustain colonial agendas
– Some officials enable decolonizing actions
– Introduce “institutional braiding” to describe such agency
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
R. Kløcker Larsen et al. analyse cases across 4 continents:
– States often sustain colonial agendas
– Some officials enable decolonizing actions
– Introduce “institutional braiding” to describe such agency
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Many projects support “resilient livelihoods”, but does “resilience” and “livelihoods” mean the same thing to women and men?
Our new paper led by Charlotte Maybom examines this question. It is open access and can be downloaded here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new paper led by Charlotte Maybom examines this question. It is open access and can be downloaded here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Many projects support “resilient livelihoods”, but does “resilience” and “livelihoods” mean the same thing to women and men?
Our new paper led by Charlotte Maybom examines this question. It is open access and can be downloaded here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new paper led by Charlotte Maybom examines this question. It is open access and can be downloaded here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: Join us for “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025”! 🥳
🗓️ 02 April 2025
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March 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: Join us for “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025”! 🥳
🗓️ 02 April 2025
⏰06:00 / 15:00 GMT
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🗓️ 02 April 2025
⏰06:00 / 15:00 GMT
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Should European countries be making strategies and plans for Africa? At least, they can put African researchers centre stage
✍️ @diis.dk researchers Adam Fejerskov, @mikkel-funder.bsky.social & @naujakleist.bsky.social share their experience in our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2177
✍️ @diis.dk researchers Adam Fejerskov, @mikkel-funder.bsky.social & @naujakleist.bsky.social share their experience in our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2177
Decolonizing Policy Advice: The Oxymoronic Nature of Danish Researchers Advising a Danish Ministry on a Danish Plan for Africa
By Adam Moe Fejerskov, Mikkel Funder and Nauja Kleist / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Denmark has a new strategy for engaging with Africa. In this blog follow some reflections…
www.developmentresearch.eu
March 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Should European countries be making strategies and plans for Africa? At least, they can put African researchers centre stage
✍️ @diis.dk researchers Adam Fejerskov, @mikkel-funder.bsky.social & @naujakleist.bsky.social share their experience in our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2177
✍️ @diis.dk researchers Adam Fejerskov, @mikkel-funder.bsky.social & @naujakleist.bsky.social share their experience in our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2177
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Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance.
I looked through the available data to work out how bad...
Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US.
Those funds are now under threat.
➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL
I looked through the available data to work out how bad...
Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US.
Those funds are now under threat.
➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL
March 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance.
I looked through the available data to work out how bad...
Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US.
Those funds are now under threat.
➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL
I looked through the available data to work out how bad...
Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US.
Those funds are now under threat.
➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL
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2-day #PhD_course /conference on #Autocratization & #Climate_Politics in contemporary society
🔥 Check it out here: www.lawtransform.no/climate-poli...
⏰ Apply by 20 Feb to join us in Bergen 25-26 March!
@liserakner.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
(📸 Rasmus Berg)
🔥 Check it out here: www.lawtransform.no/climate-poli...
⏰ Apply by 20 Feb to join us in Bergen 25-26 March!
@liserakner.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
(📸 Rasmus Berg)
February 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
2-day #PhD_course /conference on #Autocratization & #Climate_Politics in contemporary society
🔥 Check it out here: www.lawtransform.no/climate-poli...
⏰ Apply by 20 Feb to join us in Bergen 25-26 March!
@liserakner.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
(📸 Rasmus Berg)
🔥 Check it out here: www.lawtransform.no/climate-poli...
⏰ Apply by 20 Feb to join us in Bergen 25-26 March!
@liserakner.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
(📸 Rasmus Berg)
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1/3.📢CASE STUDIES NEEDED! Ahead of the 5th Board meeting of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage submit your case studies on access to climate ⛈️, development 🏗️ or humanitarian ❤️🩹finance for communities, Indigenous Peoples and CSOs.
✏️Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
✏️Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CALL FOR CASE STUDIES ON COMMUNITY ACCESS TO INFORM THE BOARD OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE
Case Studies to Inform the Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage:
Ahead of the fifth meeting of the Board (B5) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) which will take place...
docs.google.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
1/3.📢CASE STUDIES NEEDED! Ahead of the 5th Board meeting of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage submit your case studies on access to climate ⛈️, development 🏗️ or humanitarian ❤️🩹finance for communities, Indigenous Peoples and CSOs.
✏️Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
✏️Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement & Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (eds.). 2023. "Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 30, 32.
Political ecologies of professional practice: Plurality and possibilities in environmental governance, Introduction to the Special Section
This Special Section explores the plurality of professional practice in the environment and development sector, and centers the possibilities this offers for more transformative and just futures. We b...
doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement & Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (eds.). 2023. "Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 30, 32.
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This baby is out in paperback. #GreenSky
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
February 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This baby is out in paperback. #GreenSky
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
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Why this wasn't front page news yesterday is beyond me.
We know microplastics can act as vectors for toxins, and further exposure and rises in brain plastic content are near certainty baked in
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We know microplastics can act as vectors for toxins, and further exposure and rises in brain plastic content are near certainty baked in
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
February 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Why this wasn't front page news yesterday is beyond me.
We know microplastics can act as vectors for toxins, and further exposure and rises in brain plastic content are near certainty baked in
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We know microplastics can act as vectors for toxins, and further exposure and rises in brain plastic content are near certainty baked in
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Researchers paid nearly $9 billion to publishers between 2019 and 2023 so you could read our work. Why? Why??
January 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Researchers paid nearly $9 billion to publishers between 2019 and 2023 so you could read our work. Why? Why??
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Around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries are under threat from Trump’s review
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/21/t...
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/21/t...
Trump quits Paris agreement and pauses foreign climate finance
On top of leaving the Paris Agreement, Trump is reviewing around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries
www.climatechangenews.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries are under threat from Trump’s review
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/21/t...
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/21/t...
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🌍🌏🌎 Evidence-based decision-making is not a given. While most trust scientists, the influence of vocal minorities fueled by populism and ideology threatens progress. Building trust is essential for tackling global challenges.
#ScienceMatters #ParisAgreement #COVID19
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ScienceMatters #ParisAgreement #COVID19
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
www.nature.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🌍🌏🌎 Evidence-based decision-making is not a given. While most trust scientists, the influence of vocal minorities fueled by populism and ideology threatens progress. Building trust is essential for tackling global challenges.
#ScienceMatters #ParisAgreement #COVID19
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ScienceMatters #ParisAgreement #COVID19
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Locally Led Adaptation works. Our joint report examined locally led climate change adaptation in practice in Kenya and Tanzania, with promising results. www.diis.dk/en/research/...
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation
January 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Locally Led Adaptation works. Our joint report examined locally led climate change adaptation in practice in Kenya and Tanzania, with promising results. www.diis.dk/en/research/...
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation
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💡Emphasizing locally-led knowledge interventions in cases of neglected humanitarian crises💡
This blog highlights the launch of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia and its focus on addressing 'neglected crises' and their link to climate change.
Read the full blog here: wp.me/p9fvbD-89Y
This blog highlights the launch of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia and its focus on addressing 'neglected crises' and their link to climate change.
Read the full blog here: wp.me/p9fvbD-89Y
Emphasizing locally-led knowledge interventions in cases of neglected humanitarian crises: Launching the Namibian Humanitarian Observatory - Bliss
In this blog, Sister Agrippina Nandjaa (Caritas Namibia) marks the opening of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia, considering the importance of ‘neglected crises’ and their intersection with clim...
wp.me
January 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
💡Emphasizing locally-led knowledge interventions in cases of neglected humanitarian crises💡
This blog highlights the launch of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia and its focus on addressing 'neglected crises' and their link to climate change.
Read the full blog here: wp.me/p9fvbD-89Y
This blog highlights the launch of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia and its focus on addressing 'neglected crises' and their link to climate change.
Read the full blog here: wp.me/p9fvbD-89Y
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“Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?" will be the overarching theme of the conference.
📅 Save the date!
📣 We're very happy to announce that our next flagship event, our General Conference will take place in cooperation with @iobua.bsky.social in Antwerp, Belgium!
✅ 29 June - 02 July 2026
The place to be for the #Development Studies community!
www.eadi.org/news-2/save-...
📣 We're very happy to announce that our next flagship event, our General Conference will take place in cooperation with @iobua.bsky.social in Antwerp, Belgium!
✅ 29 June - 02 July 2026
The place to be for the #Development Studies community!
www.eadi.org/news-2/save-...
Save the Date: EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026
We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB) at the...
www.eadi.org
December 15, 2024 at 5:31 PM
“Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?" will be the overarching theme of the conference.
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Southern Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in at least a century, with 27 million people affected and 21 million children suffering from malnutrition, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought
Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Southern Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in at least a century, with 27 million people affected and 21 million children suffering from malnutrition, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
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Global climate change worsens disasters, but blaming climate change alone deflects responsibility from effective local governance, infrastructure, and warning systems to multinational corporations and international climate mitigation efforts. Time to re-read @frediotto.bsky.social.
January 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Global climate change worsens disasters, but blaming climate change alone deflects responsibility from effective local governance, infrastructure, and warning systems to multinational corporations and international climate mitigation efforts. Time to re-read @frediotto.bsky.social.
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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LA's fires are whirling around the telescopes where we discovered the expanding universe.
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
billmckibben.substack.com/publish/post...
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
billmckibben.substack.com/publish/post...
The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
billmckibben.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
LA's fires are whirling around the telescopes where we discovered the expanding universe.
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
billmckibben.substack.com/publish/post...
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
billmckibben.substack.com/publish/post...
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1/6. 📢 Sign up for the Ways of Repair : #LossAndDamage symposium to hear from @farhanasultana.com on "Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of #ClimateChange”
🗓️January 22nd 2025,
⏰14:00-15:00 GMT
📍Online
✏️Sign up here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️January 22nd 2025,
⏰14:00-15:00 GMT
📍Online
✏️Sign up here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Symposium | SESSION #3: Farhana Sultana – Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Er...
In this session, interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Dr. Farhana Sultana will present the text “Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate ...
zoom.us
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
1/6. 📢 Sign up for the Ways of Repair : #LossAndDamage symposium to hear from @farhanasultana.com on "Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of #ClimateChange”
🗓️January 22nd 2025,
⏰14:00-15:00 GMT
📍Online
✏️Sign up here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️January 22nd 2025,
⏰14:00-15:00 GMT
📍Online
✏️Sign up here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Tired of being bombarded by AI propaganda? Concerned about the outrageous & escalating environmental costs of these technologies?
Then register for this online talk by @apasek.bsky.social on Feb. 12 at 12:00 PM EST. #envhum @nichecanada.bsky.social
More info & registration at link below.
Then register for this online talk by @apasek.bsky.social on Feb. 12 at 12:00 PM EST. #envhum @nichecanada.bsky.social
More info & registration at link below.
AI is Trash: The Environmental Externalities of Machine Learning Tools with Dr. Anne Pasek
discuss the environmental costs of machine learning and deep learning technologies.
www.trentu.ca
January 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Tired of being bombarded by AI propaganda? Concerned about the outrageous & escalating environmental costs of these technologies?
Then register for this online talk by @apasek.bsky.social on Feb. 12 at 12:00 PM EST. #envhum @nichecanada.bsky.social
More info & registration at link below.
Then register for this online talk by @apasek.bsky.social on Feb. 12 at 12:00 PM EST. #envhum @nichecanada.bsky.social
More info & registration at link below.
Links between climate change #adaptation and land rights are often overlooked. Our new paper led by Sylvia Rotich examines them in Kenya: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CIIJX...
@diis.dk
@diis.dk
Climate change adaptation and land tenure: exploring pastoral adaptation strategies under communal and private land ownership in Kenya
Climate change adaptation is critically important for communities in the Global South, especially for those depending on climate-sensitive resources for their livelihoods, such as pastoralist commu...
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Links between climate change #adaptation and land rights are often overlooked. Our new paper led by Sylvia Rotich examines them in Kenya: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CIIJX...
@diis.dk
@diis.dk