Sam Greene

Senior researcher, Climate Change

Full biography

Expertise

Climate finance; climate change adaptation in East Africa; participatory research methods.

Before IIED

Project manager for Kunyanja School Trust, a grassroots education NGO in Nkhata Bay, Malawi.

Current work

Action research into the establishment of devolved climate finance mechanisms for climate change adaptation in Tanzania.

Sam Greene's projects

Women collecting clean water at a water pump

Strengthening the voices of women and young people in shaping local climate action

Project, May 2019

Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Project, Jul 2018

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Project, Mar 2018

The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)

Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

Project, Jul 2016

Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Project, Nov 2015

Sam Greene's blog posts

Screenshot of a video call with 25 participants.

Local must lead action to tackle world’s multiple interconnected challenges

Blog, Oct 2020

A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace

Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown

Blog, Jan 2020

A woman in Malawi carries a solar panel above her head through a forest path

Climate adaptation: its time is now

Blog, May 2019

Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document

CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action

Blog, Jan 2019

This 500W solar system in a rural village in Uganda powers a home, a public broadcasting system, a barbershop and a video hall (Photo: SolarNow via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

What is 'aggregation' and how can it get climate finance working for the most vulnerable?

Blog, Jun 2018

This illustration shows Earth encircled by digital networks. New digital data storage and sharing platforms are revolutionising financial operations (Image: Chani Goering, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Can blockchain unblock climate finance?

Blog, May 2018