Laura Emilia Hellqvist is a PhD student at the University of London. She spoke on Nature-Based Solutions at an ADB Gender Month Panel in 2022, and her research has been published in the Climate Policy Journal. She is an expert on sustainability and the pathways to attaining further sustainable development through innovation and long-term economic growth in the Global South. She also specialises in gender, women’s access to renewable forms of energy, and the ways women can realise greater socio-economic development.