Nicholas Depsky, Ph.D

UNDP Human Development Report Office 
Research Climate Scientist & Policy Advisor

[email protected]
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publications

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Human Development, Climate & Environment
UNDP Human Development Report (2026, in progress)
UNDP Human Development Report (2025)
Zambia National Human Development Report (2025)
Human Climate Horizons Platform (Interactive Map)
Human Nature-Relationships

Climate Change Impacts
Central American droughts
Global sea level rise (SLR)
Ice Sheet Melt & SLR
US heat and drought stress
Climate & Human Migration (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Guatemalan migration
Climate & displacement in US

Policy
EPA social cost of GHGs
EPA methane regulation
CA-SB 673 (DTSC), CA-AB 617 (CARB)
Regional water planning & decision support
Quito climate adaptation

Environmental Justice
SLR & Toxic Tides (CA & US) - Interactive Map
CA drinking water pollution
CA methane super emitters
Los Angeles oil/gas wells & race
Air Pollution & Birth Outcomes

Remote Sensing
Puerto Rican outage and re-electrification post-Maria
Population downscaling in CA
US wetland vegetation