Julia Rocha Romero

Julia works at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre in the Impact Assessment and Adaptation Analysis section, where she contributes to projects related to nature-based solutions, loss and damage, and climate transparency. Additionally, Julia is engaged in providing support to member states in establishing transparency frameworks and institutional arrangements for improved assessment of climate mitigation transparency efforts. For three consecutive years, Julia sat at the Secretariat of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report, where she supported the production of the report and co-authored a chapter on Food Systems (EGR 2022).

Alongside the Head of the IAAA Section, Julia leads UNEP-CCC’s engagement in the Danish NbS Knowledge Platform and contributes to the Centre’s nature-based solutions pipeline and knowledge products. Julia is also a part of UNEP-CCC’s Loss and Damage team, where she contributes to UNEP’s growing role in L&D and supports member states in establishing transparency frameworks to enhance data for L&D assessment.

Her prior research concentrated on local climate governance driven by urban leadership, specifically examining local climate ambition and the implementation of climate adaptation strategies through the lens of transnational municipal networks. Additionally, Julia has researched tropical forest conservation within protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon, further enhancing her expertise in environmental issues, local stewardship, and nature-based solutions. Julia holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Metropolitan University of Prague, specializing in Environmental Security. She furthered her education with a Master’s degree in Human Security from Aarhus University and a second Master’s degree in Climate Change from the University of Copenhagen, where she completed a minor in Global Environmental Governance.