Brianna Craft
Journalists & Writers
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Policy Experts
Also working within:
Policy Experts
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Based: London
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IIED (Author and Researcher)
Brianna Craft is the author of We Don’t Have Time For This (2024) and Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir (2023).
Brianna researchers climate change. She started in the UN climate negotiations in 2011. Four years later, she witnessed the adoption of the Paris Agreement first hand. Brianna works to further equity in the negotiations for the world’s poorest countries, which have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are the most vulnerable to its impacts.
From a small town in Washington State, Brianna lives in London. When she’s not writing justice-focused climate stories, Brianna works for the International Institute for Environment and Development. She holds a master’s degree in environmental studies from Brown University and is an alumna of the University of Washington. Brianna loves peanut butter.
“2020 is a critical year. We face an unprecedented climate crisis and a period of uncertain geopolitics. Leadership has never been more necessary. The UK will direct the UN climate negotiations this year, ahead of November’s Climate Summit (COP26) in Glasgow. Its government and people must ally with those living in the world’s poorest countries – who have done the least to cause the climate emergency but who die because of it. Only by working together can we achieve outcomes that match the scale of the crisis.”