Fatemeh Bakhtiari serves as a Senior Advisor at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, specializing in Loss and Damage at the City-level/national level. She leads policy and methodological development related to responding to Loss and Damage (L&D) and assists countries in establishing transparency frameworks to enhance data for L&D assessment and BRT reporting, such as through the ICAT project and UNEP-funded project CBIT/GSP. With a background in impact assessment, policy analysis, climate change mitigation, and sustainable natural resource management, her expertise includes developing tools for analyzing and prioritizing mitigation and adaptation actions, utilizing choice modelling, and quantifying and monetizing sustainable development co-benefits of climate actions within monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks.
Fatemeh holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics and Management from a joint doctoral program between the Universities of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Bangor (United Kingdom).
Fatemeh Bakhtiari
Senior Advisor - Climate Policy, Loss and Damage