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Olivia is a Director of Climate Legal with more than thirteen year’s experience specialising in global and national climate change policy and law, climate finance and carbon tax. She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in environmental law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and remains a visiting law lecturer at UCT’s African Climate and Development Initiative.
Olivia advises multiple governments, philanthropies and industries on the evolving international climate legal and geopolitical landscape, including on loss and damage, climate finance, trade, adaptation and mitigation. She is responsible for drafting the South African Climate Change Bill, 2018, for the (then) Department of Environmental Affairs, together with related legal instruments. She was extensively involved in South Africa’s adaptation legal and policy alignment process. She was on the drafting team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Sixth Assessment Report, writing on climate change legislative developments internationally and on the African continent. Olivia has also been recognised as a leading environmental lawyer by Best Lawyers 2020 & 2021 and by Chambers and Partners 2021 - 2023 (Environment, South Africa).