Tom Evans
Senior Policy Advisor
Tom Evans is a Senior Policy Advisor in E3G’s Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics programme. He leads E3G’s work towards delivering ambitious outcomes from multilateral climate diplomacy on the Road to COP30 and is a specialist in the UNFCCC climate negotiations.
Tom in the media
Since joining E3G in 2020, he has advised governments and helped shape global political strategy towards COP26, COP27 and COP28.
His main focus is on developing and mobilising an effective global climate diplomacy strategy to deliver a step-up in climate ambition at COP30 in 2025, including through new Nationally Determined Contributions, an acceleration in the energy transition, a scale-up in climate finance, and enhanced mechanisms to address adaptation and loss and damage.
Areas of expertise at the UNFCCC include the Global Stocktake and the Mitigation Work Programme, and NDC ambition diplomacy. He engages and coordinates global NGO, civil society, and non-state actor networks to support their climate advocacy, including serving as a co-coordinator of Climate Action Network’s Global Stocktake working group. Other areas of work include strengthening UK climate diplomacy and designing an effective multilateral climate governance regime.
Tom is an experienced media commentator on global climate diplomacy and the UN climate negotiations, and has frequently appeared in national and international media including BBC News, Sky News, CNBC and Euronews.
Before joining E3G, Tom was a Parliamentary Researcher for the Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, where he advised on international climate change policy for the UK Labour Party.
Tom holds an MSc in Environmental Technology (Global Environmental Change and Policy) from Imperial College London and a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Since joining E3G in 2020, he has advised governments and helped shape global political strategy towards COP26, COP27 and COP28.
His main focus is on developing and mobilising an effective global climate diplomacy strategy to deliver a step-up in climate ambition at COP30 in 2025, including through new Nationally Determined Contributions, an acceleration in the energy transition, a scale-up in climate finance, and enhanced mechanisms to address adaptation and loss and damage.
Areas of expertise at the UNFCCC include the Global Stocktake and the Mitigation Work Programme, and NDC ambition diplomacy. He engages and coordinates global NGO, civil society, and non-state actor networks to support their climate advocacy, including serving as a co-coordinator of Climate Action Network’s Global Stocktake working group. Other areas of work include strengthening UK climate diplomacy and designing an effective multilateral climate governance regime.
Tom is an experienced media commentator on global climate diplomacy and the UN climate negotiations, and has frequently appeared in national and international media including BBC News, Sky News, CNBC and Euronews.
Before joining E3G, Tom was a Parliamentary Researcher for the Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, where he advised on international climate change policy for the UK Labour Party.
Tom holds an MSc in Environmental Technology (Global Environmental Change and Policy) from Imperial College London and a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
