Katherine Cooke

atherine is a senior technical Policy and Sustainability Consultant with more than 15 years’ experience, specialising in international climate change policy with experience in climate finance, mitigation, and M&E. She has a detailed understanding of the international climate finance landscape, in particular public climate finance flows, and the access requirements and accreditation to climate funds.

Katherine is currently embedded within the Climate Change and International Cooperation Division (CCICD) of the Ministry of Economy (MoE) in Fiji she is working on projects addressing decarbonisation of the public bus sector and on Fiji Rural Electrification Fund (FREF) which focuses on access to energy in the outer islands using mini-grids. She is also working on projects including Nature Based Solutions (NbS) and setting up a project development unit (PDU) within the MoE CCICD for enhanced access to and effective use of climate finance under the broader ambit of SDGs. Katherine’s works under the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub (CCFAH) to provide Long-term, dedicated and nationally embedded technical assistance on a demand lead basis, and institutional capacity building for climate finance project structuring, increasing access to CF. Katherine also has a focus on the utilization of Earth Observation (EO) and Geospatial data to make climate finance proposal more evidence based and robust

Katherine has high- level experience in training and capacity building including the design and delivery of training workshops for LDC and countries for climate negotiations, she has also conducted extensive training on Climate Finance Instruments and mechanisms and accessing the GCF.
Prior to taking on her current role in MoE Fiji, has conducted energy scoping studies to identify the priority research needs, on how research can inform South Africa and Zambia’s policies and investment decisions in the power sector under the DFID funded Energy and Economic Growth Project. Katherine also previously managed the M&E component of UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (PACT), a flagship programme under the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) International Climate Finance (ICF). She has expertise in energy efficiency and low carbon development with practical experience in industrial sectors under Climate change agreements (CCA’s). This involved programme design and implementation in thematic areas related to the evaluation.