Scholars
Pia Treichel
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF); International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Based in
Australia
Oceana
A practitioner-turned-researcher, Dr Pia Treichel’s work focuses on improving the adaptation options of the world’s most vulnerable people, informed by her experiences working on climate change in the international development sector. She is a specialist on international finance for climate change adaptation, with over 15 years’ experience working on climate and development topics, including the international climate negotiations, climate finance, vulnerability and justice issues.
Before IIED, Pia was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Monash University while undertaking her PhD, which explored the political economy of the Green Climate Fund – the largest of the funding mechanisms under the international climate agreements – as a means of explaining its climate change adaptation portfolio and the associated justice implications. Over this time, Pia also undertook research consultancies for a variety of development-focused organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and the Overseas Development Institute.
Prior to that, Pia was an adaptation specialist with Plan International Australia, delivering child-centred adaptation programs. Earlier, Pia was at the United Nations Development Programme, focused on climate change.
Focus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics HistoryPublications
Articles
Treichel, P. (2024). Design by Transitional Committee: Learning from the Green Climate Fund. Climate Policy, 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2418316
Treichel P., Robertson, M., Wilkinson, E., & Corbett, J. (2024). Scale and access to
the Green Climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States. Global Environmental Change. 89, 102943. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102943
Treichel, P. (2020). Why focus on children: a literature review of child-centred climate
change adaptation approaches. Australian Journal of Emergency Management.
35(2): 26-33. Available here.
Chong, J., Treichel, P., & Gero, A. (2017). Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in
Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines. In:
Uitto, J., Puri, J., van den Berg, R. (eds) Evaluating Climate Change Action
for Sustainable Development. Springer. 289-304.
Chong, J., Gero, A., & Treichel, P. (2015). What indicates improved resilience to
climate change? A learning and evaluative process developed from a
child-centred, community-based project in the Philippines. Monitoring and
evaluation of climate change adaptation: A review of the landscape. New
Directions for Evaluation, 147: 105–116. DOI: 10.1002/ev.20134