Lorena Pasquini works at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she is a Research Fellow in Urban Climate Change, associated with the following research groups: the African Climate & Development Initiative, the Climate Systems Analysis Group, the African Centre for Cities and the Global Risk Governance Programme. She is a Researcher on the Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) Programme and a Co-Investigator on the Fulcrum Institutions for Sustainability Programme. Her current research focuses on the governance of environmental change issues at local government and urban levels, and on engagement, behaviour change and communication on climate change.