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Gianluca Grimalda

Gianluca Grimalda, formerly senior researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, is a social scientist interested in social cohesion and adaptation to climate change

October 2023

  • Toruar Island in the Saposa Islands region of Bougainville, near Papua New Guinea, where the land mass is decreasing due to rising sea levels.

    Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher. It’s a price worth paying

    Gianluca Grimalda
    My company in Germany has demanded my swift return from climate-change fieldwork near Papua New Guinea. I can’t comply, says social scientist Gianluca Grimalda