Manatee Insight’s Work

More About Manatee Insight

Nathaniel Mason founded Manatee Insight to help decision makers make better choices for people and nature. Nathaniel has advised and written on major sustainable development challenges for organisations including the UN, the World Bank and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. He has lived and worked in various countries in Africa and Asia and holds affiliations with ODI (Senior Associate) and the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London (Honorary Senior Research Fellow).

Why Manatee Insight?

People and nature, across resource systems. Manatees inhabit deltas and mangroves. These vital ecosystems lie at the meeting point of freshwater, land and oceans, providing food and protection from climate change to many millions of people.

Global thinking, local details. Manatees and their sirenian relatives live in warm waters around the world. They have been associated with local cultural traditions, including Mami Wata, a water spirt venerated in several countries in Africa and the Americas.

Projects

Strategy for enhancing climate finance orientation

We worked with the senior leadership of an international climate resilience coalition to develop a strategy helping countries access and use climate finance for adaptation and resilience across a wide range of funding sources.

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Amplifying Multilateral Development Bank finance for water

Manatee Insight analysed the financing and policies of ten multilateral development banks to support a major international NGO in shaping its strategy to increase MDB investment and policy ambition for water. Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/@selimarda6006

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Climate finance for sustainable school feeding: exploring the options

Working with ODI Global for the School Meals Coalition, we explored how climate finance could help governments expand school meals programmes and support wider transformation of food systems. Report. Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/@wegenerb

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Climate finance strategic engagement

Manatee Insight worked with ODI Global to advise the Wellcome Trust on its strategic engagement with international climate finance, with a particular focus on the links between climate change and health.

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Securing structural economic transformation in a climate-changed world

In partnership with ODI Global for the Gates Foundation, we examined how five low- and middle-income countries can pursue economic transformation while responding to climate risks and the opportunities and disruptions of the global low-carbon transition. Working Paper.

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Economic development in a climate changed world

Manatee Insight worked with ODI to identify how climate action is reshaping the global economy, creating cross-border ripples and new opportunities, but also new risks, for low and middle-income countries. A first paper mapping these opportunities and risks, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is available here.

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