Catherine Wong

Catherine Wong
Catherine Wong
Policy Specialist - Climate and Security Risk

With more than 15 year's experience working on climate change and environment at headquarters and in-the-field, Catherine is a policy specialist in climate and security risk and the technical lead on climate and security under UNDP’s Global Policy Network. She is UNDP’s focal point on the DPPA-UNDP-UN Environment Climate Security Mechanism and UN Water-led core group on Leveraging Water for Peace. Catherine was recognized as one of 25 Young Security Leaders by the Körber-Stiftung and the Munich Security Conference (2020) and is an observer of the International Military Council for Climate Security.

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Peace and conflict need to be considered in the climate change agenda.
Countries in fragile settings also bear the brunt of the climate emergency. Yet climate finance remains largely blind to fragility and conflict.
Smarter climate finance can support the most vulnerable people living with the impacts of both climate and insecurity.