AXA IM Award - Socioeconomics Impacts of Climate Change Award

Resilience to the impacts of climate change in the urban areas of the Global South is acrucial issue, given that it is estimated that almost 70% of the world’s population will be livingin cities by 2050. Integrating women into the adaptation and development approaches is essential to tackle recurring and increasing gender inequalities, intensified by poverty and increasing urbanisation.

To help address the issue, Dr Anika Haque was awarded the 2023 AXA IM Research Awardf or her work on the impacts of climate change on urbanised and disadvantaged areas in the global South. The third edition of the AXA IM Research Award seeked to reward a researcherwhose work focuses on the social dimensions of climate change and the conditions for afairer and more inclusive transition.

Dr. Anika Haque is an internationally recognised expert on urban climate change adaptation and climate resilient development. She has been leading longitudinal research in the global South over the last 15 years and closely engaging with the local stakeholders and decision makers with an aim of building a gender inclusive climate resilient urban future. Her research studies the exacerbated vulnerability of populations in urbanised and disadvantaged areas of the global South to the consequences of climate change, and the inclusion of women in the policies and adaptation strategies in that regard.

Dr Haque’s research is interdisciplinary addressing three overlapping global challenges:changing climate, rapid urbanisation and growing inequality. It builds around the theme of urban climate change resilience embracing actions on climate change adaptation, mitigationand disaster-risk-reduction while recognizing the complexity of rapidly growing urban areas, growing inequality, development challenges and climate change uncertainty. Her research is grounded in Systems thinking unpacking the complex problems and challenges in thecontemporary global South cities in the era of climate change.