Jing Ling Tan

Jing Ling Tan

Ph.D. Student in Government | Climate Politics & Policy

Fieldwork

COP30 — Belém, Brazil (2025)

I attended the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025 as a Research Observer, funded by the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability COP Observers Funding Program. My fieldwork there informs an ongoing project on how COP delegates perceive climate justice and international cooperation.

Featured writing: “Witnessing Power on the Pavilion Floor at COP30,” Harvard Salata Institute News, 2025.

The author posing in front of the conference banner that reads Brasil COP30 Amazônia, Belém 2025
Me and the huge conference banner, along the conference's massive hallway — a tiny illustration of the sheer scale of COP.
A group called the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) holding up placards that read Just Transition Now and other banners on climate justice, within the premises of COP30
Advocacy on climate justice within the conference premises that I chanced upon on Day 2 of the conference.

Just Phaseout — Jakarta, Indonesia (2026)

In January 2026, I conducted exploratory fieldwork in Jakarta, Indonesia, for my Just Phaseout project on how international climate finance shapes Indonesia’s energy transition.

The author standing with Dr. Sonny Mumbunan in an institutional library lobby in Jakarta, Indonesia
Exploratory fieldwork in Jakarta for the Just Phaseout project — with Dr. Sonny Mumbunan.