Anne Hammill is Senior Director, Resilience for IISD.
Much of her work focuses on understanding how better environmental management can build resilience to climate stress and contribute to peacebuilding. Anne’s most recent work has been in developing and applying decision-support tools for climate change adaptation, conducting participatory field research on livelihoods and climate change, and building the capacity of governments and civil society to integrate climate risk into policies and field projects. She has also been working with organizations in Eastern and Central Africa to understand and address the links between conservation activities and conflict.
All Publications
- Resilient Recovery: Using climate adaptation plans to build back better
Blog - May 6, 2020
Though focused on climate change, National Adaptation Plans offer important assessments of the risks a country faces and can be valuable in devising comprehensive pandemic response strategies. - COVID-19 Shows How Canada Needs to Prepare for the Next Crisis
Blog - April 23, 2020
As communities across Canada grapple with the deadly and damaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a rare window right now into how important it is to prepare for a crisis. - A Long and Winding Road: COP 25 end notes
Blog - December 17, 2019
If there is one word to sum up what turned out to be the longest Conference of Parties (COP) in UNFCCC history, it’s arguably “frustration.” Now that COP 25 has wrapped, it’s worth looking back at what was—and wasn’t—achieved. - Gender-Responsive Climate Action
Commentary - June 8, 2018
What does gender-responsive climate action look like? Expert commentary on achieving gender-responsive climate action through women’s empowerment, inclusive policy-making and other innovative practices. - Is it Adaptation or Development? Revisiting the continuum 10 years later
Commentary - March 8, 2018
In 2007, Anne Hammill and Heather McGray developed "the adaptation continuum" to tackle the question: "Is it Adaptation or Development?" Their intention was to provide a framework that proposed a range of what adaptation could look like. Read about what they found 10 years later. - Conserving Biological Hotspots in Conflict-Affected Democratic Republic of Congo
Blog - September 26, 2017
Maiko National Park, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is so remote that the park’s northern edge can only be reached by a seven-day walk through thick, inhospitable forest. - sNAPshot: Domestic public finance for implementation of NAPs
Policy Brief - December 14, 2016
This overview policy brief introduces the topic of using domestic public finance for the implementation of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. - Financing Adaptation and Resilience Through Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Fuel Duty
Video - May 24, 2016
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016, the event “Financing Adaptation and Resilience Through Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Fuel Duty” took place in Bonn, Germany. - Developing national adaptation monitoring and evaluation systems: A guidebook
Guidebook - December 31, 2015
This guidebook is intended for decision makers and technical advisors involved in the development of national monitoring and evaluation (M&E)... - sNAPshot: Initiating sector integration of adaptation considerations. Overview brief
Data brief - December 3, 2015
There is no single approach to integrating adaptation considerations into sector planning, but concrete examples of good practice are emerging. - Migration and Conservation in the Lake Albert Ecosystem
Paper - August 12, 2015
Migration is playing a significant role in the deterioration of the Lake Albert ecosystem in Buliisa District, as migrants, mainly coming from neighbouring provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are pulled to the region by the economic opportunities. - Targeted Topics: High-level political support and sectoral integration in NAP processes
Paper - July 27, 2015
The National Adaptation Planning Global Network’s inaugural Targeted Topics Forum addressed the related topics of securing political support and sectoral integration in the National Adaptation Plan process. - Towards a Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Ontario: IISD input to MOECC’s Climate Change Discussion Paper
Paper - April 13, 2015
The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change released its Ontario Climate Change Discussion Paper 2015. This brief outlines IISD’s... - Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States
Paper - April 9, 2015
Efforts to help fragile states move onto a path toward stability and sustainability continue to face enormous challenges.Climate change is one of... - Repository of Adaptation Indicators: Real case examples from national Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Report - October 10, 2014
The repository illustrates possible adaptation indicators and their application context, thereby supporting their context-specific formulation. - Monitoring and Evaluating Adaptation at Aggregated Levels: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Systems
Paper - July 2, 2014
The paper Monitoring and Evaluating Adaptation at Aggregated Levels: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Systems provides an introduction to different... - Staying Afloat in a Sea of Information: Are online platforms throwing users a lifeline?
Commentary - November 19, 2013
- Exploring Trends in Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Development
Paper - November 16, 2013
In recent years, the concept of low-carbon, climate-resilient development (LCCRD) has emerged as a key way of framing policy and action to address... - Climate Resilience and Food Security: A framework for planning and monitoring
Paper - August 16, 2013
This working paper was developed jointly by all partners of the Climate Resilience and Food Security in Central America (CREFSCA) project. - Understanding Needs, Meeting Demands: A user-oriented analysis of online knowledge broker platforms for climate change and development
Paper - June 8, 2013
This paper examines the current state of alignment between climate knowledge brokering (CKB) platforms and the information-seeking and knowledge... - Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: Lessons from Tunisia and Indonesia
Paper - April 22, 2013
Vulnerability assessments (VAs) are central to shaping climate change adaptation decisions.They help to define the nature and extent of the threat... - Africa Transformation-Ready: The strategic application of information and communication technologies to climate change adaptation in Africa
Paper - March 6, 2012
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have had an increasing impact on economic and social development over the past two decades,... - Harmonising Climate Risk Management: Adaptation screening and assessment tools for development co-operation
Paper - August 26, 2011
In this OECD Environment Working Paper, Anne Hammill and Thomas Tanner draw upon growing bodies of experience with the development and... - Healing the Rift: Peacebuilding in and around protected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Albertine Rift
Paper - December 9, 2010
This report summarizes a 27-month project that piloted a conflict-sensitive approach to conservation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at... - Promoting Conflict Sensitivity in Transboundary Protected Areas: A role for peace and conflict impact assessments
Paper - July 7, 2010
Conflict is detrimental to conservation, while conservation is, in many respects, inherently conflictual. How can we reconcile the goals of peace... - Climate-related vulnerability and adaptive-capacity in Ethiopia's Borana and Somali communities
Paper - March 12, 2010
This report provides a comparative analysis of the climate-related vulnerability and adaptive capacity of Borana and Somali pastoral communities in... - Policy Brief: Climate-related vulnerability and adaptive-capacity in Ethiopia's Borana and Somali communities
Paper - March 12, 2010
This policy brief draws on the findings of a climate-related vulnerability and adaptive-capacity assessment undertaken by IISD, IUCN, CARE and SCUK... - Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Practitioners' Manual
Book - September 21, 2009
The Albertine Rift is one of the most biodiverse and ecologically unique regions of Africa. Sadly it has also been the site of some of the world's most violent conflicts in recent history. This turbulent context can pose a range of risks and opportunities to conservationists who are managing resources that can be both a seed of conflict and foundation for peace-building. - Microfinance and Climate Change Adaptation
Paper - November 5, 2008
Climate change is understood as a threat to which the poor are acutely vulnerable. Microfinance services (MFS) are recognized as tools for helping... - Gorillas in the Midst: Assessing the peace and conflict impacts of International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) activities
Paper - August 14, 2008
Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats; it can... - Vulnerability & Adaptation Work Program: Achieving sustainable development in a changing climate
Brochure - June 25, 2008
For nearly a decade, the International Institute for Sustainable Development has been actively engaged in understanding and addressing the impacts... - Conserving the Peace: Analyzing the links between conservation and conflict in the Albertine Rift
Paper - February 29, 2008
Strategy Report prepared following the Project Inception Meeting in Nairobi, 1-2 February 2006. - Climate change as the ‘new' security threat: implications for Africa
Paper - November 7, 2007
Once an environmental issue, then an energy problem, climate change is now being recast as a security threat. So far, the debate has focused on... - Surviving in a Changing World: Environment, Security and Microfinance
Paper - September 7, 2006
IISD Environment and Security Team members Richard Matthew and Anne Hammill have written an article for the Spring 2006 issue of Green Cross... - Protected areas and the security community
Paper - May 2, 2006
Protected Areas are often situated in remote areas prone to conflict, but they can also make important contributions to peace. This paper draws... - Natural Disasters and Resource Rights - Building resilience, rebuilding lives
Paper - February 1, 2006
Natural disasters damage and destroy the land, sea and forest resources vital to peoples' livelihoods. Where resource rights are clearly... - Which Way Forward? - Issues in developing an effective climate regime after 2012
Book - November 18, 2005
A post-2012 climate change regime will need to balance the diverse needs of all countries while striving to prevent the potentially serious... - Focusing on Current Realities: It's time for the impacts of climate change to take centre stage
Commentary - April 2, 2004
While the future of the Kyoto Protocol remains unclear, it is vital that we look at ways to adapt to the current realities of climate change. ...