Claudia Melim-McLeod is a senior sustainable finance advisor at Rainforest Foundation Norway. She is a former Senior Climate and National Planning Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author of Guide for Integrated Planning in Africa – mainstreaming the SDGs, Agenda 2063, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in National Development Plans and Managing Water (In) Security in Brazil – Lessons from a Megacity.