Head of marketing and events @IIED. Marketing, digital & data at work. Running, books & travel not at work. Sometimes they converge.
Walthamstow, London
Joined April 2009
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Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
"There was no one quite like Saleem and I will remember his unique combination of warmth, generosity of spirit, academic prowess and enormous standing in climate science." - @tommitchelliied
IIED pays tribute & has opened a book of remembrance: iied.org/professor-saleemul-… @ICCCAD
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
We're seeking input on how to improve our #MakeChangeHappen #podcast series. Please fill in the survey so we can ensure that future episodes cover your interests and are in the best format.
We really appreciate your feedback! --> surveymonkey.co.uk/r/IIEDpod…
ALT Your opinion matters! Take the podcast survey.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
Live discussion now on #HiddenHandbrakes from #ClimateWeekNYC. --> iied.org/hidden-handbrakes-t…
IIED's @tommitchelliied is having a conversation about the barriers to climate action with @Graceddy, @AdamJeanPaul and Helena Boniatti Pavese.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
THIS MORNING AT #LCAW2023: Hidden handbrakes – exposing the unseen blockers of climate action --> iied.org/hidden-handbrakes-e…
IIED's @JamesNPersad will be joined by @meganrowling, @Graceddy, @clareshakya & @LCotula to discuss the hidden blockers to #ClimateAction. Join us!
ALT Hidden handbrakes – exposing the unseen blockers of climate action.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
Challenging queer erasure in climate action and urban development - the new @IIED_Voices #podcast episode - further discussed how urban development and #ClimateAction can be truly inclusive of queer communities.
Listen now! --> iied.org/challenging-queer-e…
ALT Challenging queer erasure in climate action and urban development.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
NEWS: New animation shows how climate-related loss and damage is impacting people in Nepal --> iied.org/new-animation-shows…
The fourth of a series, a new animation shows how people in Nepal are already experiencing #LossAndDamage from climate change and calls for urgent action.
ALT Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the Least Developed Countries. Spotlight: Nepal.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
Internet access is exploding around the world, providing new opportunities for giving power to people made vulnerable through poverty and climate change. But it’s also possible to perpetuate inequalities if #digital access is unequal and inequitable.
PROJECT: Using digital technology to scan potential for change in sustainable development --> iied.org/using-digital-techn…
IIED investigated how digital technology could be used to understand the attitudes and concerns around development topics and inform policy change.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
BLOG: Starting a journey – reflections on race & racism and the work to do in our organisations and our sector --> iied.org/starting-journey-re…
Andrew Norton reflects on deep challenges of enduring racism within the development sector & IIED’s ongoing work to contribute to progress.
ALT Indigenous women of Aldea Campur, Alta Verapaz in Guatemala’s Polochic valley are gathered around large buckets. They make, market and package their own shampoo, earning extra income for themselves and for their families.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
EVENT: If the #digital world doesn’t consider #GenderEquality is that progress?
Join us on 1 September to consider how we can use digital technology to create equal opportunities for women and men and drive true progress.
Full details and register --> iied.org/if-digital-world-do…
ALT Woman with her back to the camera speaks on a mobile phone.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
LIVE NOW: Community Based Adaptation: What We Learned at CBA15 --> youtube.com/watch?v=KqWgFDWV…
Watch live as @Snanduddu @AdiBahadur & @ObedClement discuss what they learned at #CBA15 on @CimpaticoTV.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
Love this - breaking records and glass ceilings whilst pledging to repair nations and relationships and still being humble and human with it. Congratulations @KamalaHarris and @JoeBiden we are all rooting for you in your new jobs! 👏
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
We just turned one!🎂Over the last year, the #MakeChangeHappen podcast has provided in-depth coverage of key issues in sustainable development & how we're playing our part to make change happen.
Here's a recap - give all the episodes a listen! --> iied.org/make-change-happen-…
ALT A scene of a market. IIED Make Change Happen podcast.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
It's international #biodiversityday2020. I've been talking to #Ugandan change-makers preventing biodiversity loss by promoting indigenous food systems. Read my blog written with @YossaDaisy for @iied @hivos @FrankMechielsen
iied.org/protecting-indigeno…
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
Why do I feel compelled to WAVE at the end of Zoom calls? I have literally never walked out of a meeting room WAVING.
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
My Zoom tip for this week: after every zoom call step away from the computer and all technology straight away for about 3 minutes. Don't jump straight into checking emails or another call. Walk away. Re-calibrate yourself. Breathe. Then return. #ZoomHygiene
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
So one day maybe six years ago, myself and @geowriter were on a walk to Durdle Door (like Lizzie Bennett we are excellent walkers and we decided we should write 'Pride and Prejudice on Facebook'. But we never did. Until lockdown. Here it is....
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
The Earth viewed over the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Today we’re launching ‘Earth perspectives’, a new artwork conceived by Olafur for #EarthDay2020 comprised of nine animations featuring nine different views over the Earth.
@serpentineuk #earthperspectives #backtoearth
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
To whomever is chalking names and descriptions of trees on the pavements across Walthamstow. I love you. This made my heart sing today.
ALT London Plane (my favourite) takes pollution out of the air
ALT Sycamore- a real survivor grows anywhere
Clair Grant-Salmon retweeted
Elisha Nochomovitz ran a marathon on his seven-metre balcony during lockdown in France. It took him six hours and 48 minutes.
