Catherine Pettengell
Profile:
Catherine was formerly CARE’s Senior Advisor on Adaptation and Resilience, leading CARE International UK’s work on resilience building and community based adaptation to climate change, particularly in situations of recurrent crisis.
Catherine’s background is in research, policy, and practice in climate change, climate change adaptation, and sustainable livelihoods. This includes developing conceptual and practical approaches to climate change adaptation and resilience building. She also has expertise in the design and implementation of adaptation and resilience programmes; has experience in the oversight of the whole programme cycle, from design to evaluation and learning; and is skilled in participatory research methods, capacity building, and training. Before coming to CARE International she worked with Oxfam and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
Blog posts
People Power: Why climate change is now a human rights issue
Monday, 22 September 2014 16:17As one of the estimated 30,000-40,000 people who took to the streets of London yesterday (as well as one of an estimated 570,000 people who protested across 161 countries) I am calling on governments of the world to take action on climate change
