Alina Averchenkova
Co-Head Climate Policy
Alina joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in April 2013. She is responsible for the engagement with policy and decision makers worldwide, and research on international climate change policy.
Background
Alina joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change from KPMG, where she was Global Director for Climate Change and Carbon. She has fourteen years of experience in climate policy and international development.
Prior to KPMG, Alina has worked for a carbon-asset manager, First Climate, in Zurich, focusing on policies related to carbon markets. Before that, as a Programme Officer at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change based in Bonn, she supported international negotiations on post-2012 climate change regime.
Her professional experience also includes work for the Environmental Defence Fund in Washington, DC, focusing on climate policy in economies in transition; for Metroeconomica Ltd on resource abundance and economic growth, and for the Bureau of Economic Analysis, on climate policy in Russia.
Alina has extensive experience in providing advisory and capacity building services to governments, UN organisations and private sector, and in facilitating interministerial and multi-stakeholder dialogues on climate change.
Alina holds a BSc in Geography from Moscow State University, and an MSc and a PhD in Economics and International Development from the University of Bath, focused on factors of effectiveness of international climate change regime.
Research interests
- Design of the international climate change regime;
- Low emission development strategies in developing countries;
- Climate finance;
- Subnational action around low carbon and green growth.
Multinational and large national corporations and climate adaptation: are we asking the right questions? A review of current knowledge and a new research perspective
Adapting to climate change requires the engagement of all actors in society. Until recently, the predominant research focus has been on governments, communities, and the third sector as key actors … read more »
2015
Multinational corporations and climate adaptation – Are we asking the right questions? A review of current knowledge and a new research perspective
Adapting to climate change requires the engagement of all actors in society. Until recently, predominant research focus has been on governments, communities and the third sector as key actors in … read more »
2014
Low-carbon future: A case for concerted action by national and local authorities
Presentation at the Parliamentary meeting on the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Congress of the Republic of Peru on 8 December read more »
Changing role of national legislation on climate change: Recent developments
Presentation give at the GLOBE COP20 Legislators Summit on 7 December 2014 in Lima. read more »
Private-sector role in reducing emissions
Alina Averchenkova presented at the 3rd meeting of the Durban Forum on Capacity-building at the Bonn Climate Change Conference on 12 June 2014. Alina’s presentation focused on the experience with … read more »
2009
Institutional Mechanisms to Address the AAU Reserves in a Post-2012 Agreement
Alexander Averchenkov and Alina Averchenkova Carbon and Climate Law Review, Issue 3, September 2009
Assessing the consistency of national mitigation actions in the G20 with the Paris Agreement
This study uses the ‘Paris consistency monitor’ to assess whether the past and present action by G20 countries on climate mitigation is consistent with meeting the key requirements … read more »
Climate policy in China, the European Union and the United States: Main drivers and prospects for the future
China, the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) are responsible for the majority of global emissions of greenhouse gases, and produce about half of global GDP. … read more »
Beyond the targets: assessing the political credibility of pledges for the Paris Agreement
This report provides the results of an analysis of “intended nationally determined contributions”, or INDCs, that were submitted by countries ahead of the Paris Agreement on climate change. read more »
2015
Beyond the targets: assessing the political credibility of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
This paper analyses the credibility of national climate pledges (INDCs). It starts by fleshing out the key determinants of credibility in relation to action on climate change. It then outlines a framework to assess the credibility of a country’s INDC pledges based on these determinants. This framework is used to provide an initial assessment of the credibility of INDCs provided by G20 countries. read more »
2014
Taming the beasts of ‘burden-sharing’: an analysis of equitable mitigation actions and approaches to 2030 mitigation pledges
Countries are now seeking to reach a new international agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015. A key element of the international negotiations … read more »
Annual Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) 2014, Mitigation Momentum, November 2014
This report begins with an overview of the latest statistics on NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) development, drawing from the UNFCCC NAMA Registry and the Ecofys NAMA Database.The second section … read more »
Mobilising private-sector engagement in LEDS and NAMAs
Lessons learned from UNDP's low emission capacity building programme read more »
Barriers in developing national mitigation strategies and actions in developing countries
The study identifies barriers to the design and implementation of low emission development strategies (LEDS) and mitigation actions (NAMAs) encountered in developing countries read more »
2012
Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World
De Boer, Y., van Bergen, B., McKenzie, M., Averchenkova, A., Gladwin, T., McGraw, M., Lyon, T., Bunch, R. KPMG, 2012. – External link to publication
2011
Embarking on the low carbon journey: National Mitigation Actions as green growth vehicles in developing nations
KPMG, 2011. – External link to download report (PDF)
2010
Financing low carbon investment in developing countries: Public-private partnerships for implementation of NAMAs
KPMG, 2010 External link to report
How-to Guide: Low Emission Development Strategies and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Eastern Europe and CIS
Averchenkova, A. UNDP, 2010 – External link to publication
The outcomes of Copenhagen: The negotiations and the Accord
UNDP Environment & Energy Group climate Policy series, March 2010 – Download report from external website (PDF)
Beyond Paris – the long-term energy outlook
Financial Times, 15 February
Climate report calls for strengthening credibility in action plans
Financial Express, 1 February
The Paris deal is done, but how credible are the pledges?
BusinessGreen, 4 February
2015
Where do multinationals fit in global efforts to adapt to climate change?
Is there a role for the private sector in improving climate resilience? Alina Averchenkova and Florence Crick relfect on recent research carried out by the Institute in this LSE Business Review Blog. read more »
Panel debate | A year on from Paris: turning commitments into action
Chair: Professor Lord Stern of Brentford Panel: Dr Alina Averchenkova, Co-Head Climate Policy at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE Pete Betts, Director, International Climate Change at the Department for Business, … read more »
Implementing the NDCs to the Paris agreement: Bridging the legislative and policy gap (COP 22 Side Event)
Side event at the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP 22) Parliamentarians, negotiators and policy experts discuss the findings of the Global climate legislation data and of a new study to … read more »
Grantham Workshop | Alina Averchenkova 'One year from Paris: progress made and expectations from COP 22 in Marrakesh'
Alina Averchenkova, Co-Head of Climate Policy at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, will be the speaker for this seminar.
VIDEO Public lecture | We'll always have Paris: COP21 and the new political economy of climate change
Michael Jacobs explores both the causes and the consequences of the Paris Agreement in this LSE public lecture. read more »
Grantham Workshop | Outcomes of COP 21 in Paris and implications for the research agenda
Grantham Workshop on 17 February hosts an interactive discussion panel ‘Outcomes of COP 21 in Paris and implications for the research agenda’. Agenda: 1. Overview of the outcomes of Paris and emerging policy questions-Presentation … read more »
2015
Post COP21 panel debate | After Paris: is COP21 a turning point for international action on climate change?
In the week immediately after COP21 ends in Paris, Lord Stern will be joined by a distinguished panel to discuss its significance and whether its outcome marks a turning point for international action to combat climate change. read more »
Credibility of national actions and INDCs: worldwide legislative and policy developments (COP21 event)
Side event at COP21/CMP11 in Paris, France read more »
Public lecture | International cooperation and climate change
Dr Alina Averchenkova, Prof John Broome, Prof Robyn Eckersley and Fergus Green discuss why the international community been faltering on effective climate action and how we can break through the collective-action impasse. read more »
2014
Grantham Workshop: Alina Averchenkova
Barriers to the case for accelerated low carbon transition: Analysis of the conversations with Chief Economists and Senior Policy Advisors read more »
A new perspective on private sector adaptation: the case of multinational corporations
Speaker: Alina Averchenkova, GRI
