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The Foundation hosts awareness raising and community mobilization events and trainings to influence government policies and change national attitudes towards environment, education, biodiversity, conservation, land degradation, health, human rights, agriculture, climate change and sustainable livelihood issues. It also influences the policies of institutions - local, national and international, governments and intergovernmental bodies, donors and the general public.
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Abibimman Foundation is a non-profit oriented, non-governmental organisation established in 2000. It focuses on various issues including climate change, land degradation, agriculture, biodiversity, democracy and development based on knowledge of cultural, civic, human right, environmental and health issues.
The Foundation is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable livelihoods, the amelioration of conflict situations and a culture of peace.
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The Foundation promotes cultural, formal and non-formal education as well as technical and vocational skill development and awareness raising on climate change issues including slow onset events.
| | | Stakeholder engagement | Africa | |
Awareness raising campaigns: http://www.abibimmanfoundation.org/wpsite/reviews/
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| | 11699 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
ARC assesses the risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including slow onset impacts.
The ARC secretariat has collaborated with its in-country counterparts to create comprehensive risk profiles for all of its member states that have requested initial scoping missions by the Agency. The ARC Technical Team has also worked with counterparts in a select group of countries interested in taking out insurance (and with whom the ARC Agency has an MoU) to customize Africa RiskView using historical data and simulating the response costs of similar drought events were they to occur today.
ARC also identifies options and designsand implements country-driven risk management strategies and approaches, including risk reduction, and risk transfer and risk-sharing mechanisms.As a sovereign weather insurance scheme and continental risk pool, risk transfer and risk sharing compose the core of ARC’s approach.
ARC's activies consist in the systematic observation of, and data collection on, the impacts of climate change, in particular slow onset impacts, and accounting for losses, as appropriate.
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The African Risk Capacity (ARC) was established as a Specialized Agency of the African Union (AU). It provides strategic guidance, political oversight and capacity building services to governments interested in participating in the insurance scheme in the following areas: 1) risk quantification; 2) contingency planning; 3) risk finance and risk transfer education.
ARC is governed by a Conference of the Parties (COP), a Governing Board and supported by a Secretariat.
ARC's mission is to use modern finance mechanisms such as risk pooling and risk transfer to create pan-African climate response systems that enable African countries to meet the needs of people harmed by natural disasters.
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The ARC Agency implements its programmes through the governments of its member states, via different in-country focal points identified in the pre-participation process (e.g. ministries of agriculture, disaster risk management, finance, etc.).
ARC Ltd operates according to the regulatory requirements set forth by the Bermuda Monetary Authority. It purchases reinsurance on the international markets. Payouts are transferred to the member state’s Ministry of Finance, Central Bank or other public financial institution, as agreed upon in their insurance policy.
| | | Assessment | Africa | |
Publications: http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/documents/general
The Cost of Drought in Africa: http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/documents/350251/371107/ARC_Cost_of_Drought_EN.pdf
ARC policy decisions: http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/documents/policydecisions
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Increasing Temperatures | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/ | NWP |
| | 11700 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
In 2009, the Bank Group developed its Strategy of Climate Risk Management and Adaptation (CRMA). The plan’s purpose is to reduce the continent's vulnerability to climate change and sustain the change to economies producing less greenhouse gases.
The plan banks on AfDB resources but also on the contribution of its partners, multilateral and bilateral institutions, and the private sector.
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The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is a multilateral development finance institution. Its main objective is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
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The Bank Group achieves its objectives by mobilizing and allocating resources for investment in RMCs; and
providing policy advice and technical assistance to support development efforts.
| | | Investment | Africa | |
The Solutions for a Changing Climate: The African Development Bank's Response to Impacts in Africa:
http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Generic-Documents/The%20Solutions%20for%20a%20Changing%20Climate%20The%20African%20Development%20Bank%27s%20Response%20to%20Impacts%20in%20Africa.pdf
Bank Group Climate risk management and adaptation strategy (CRMA):
http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Policy-Documents/Climate%20Risk%20Management%20and%20Adaptation%20Strategy%20_CRMA_%20%282%29.pdf
| | | | | | | Desertification, Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Desertification, Increasing Temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
| | 11701 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
The Pasture, Forage and Rangeland Systems programme develops and integrates improved management practices, germplasm, and land-use strategies to optimize economic viability and environmental enhancement in managing vegetation, livestock and natural resources on private and public lands. Relevant research activities include: enhancing the conservation and restoration of ecosystems and agroecosystems through improvements based on the application of ecological principles; improving management of fire, invasive weeds, grazing, global change and other agents of ecological change; developing improved grass and forage legume germplasm for livestock, conservation, turf and bioenergy and bioproduct systems; and improving decision-support systems including improving inventory, monitoring, and assessment tools.
In conducting climate change, soils, and air emissions research, ARS develops knowledge and technologies which reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations through management of agricultural emissions and carbon sequestration to enable agriculture to adapt to climate change and, maintain and enhance soil resources.
The U.S. Salinity Laboratory at ARS is a National Laboratory supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for basic research on the chemistry, physics, and biology of salt-affected soil-plant-water systems. Through research, it develops new knowledge and technology to address problems of crop production on salt-affected lands, water reuse for irrigation, and surface- and ground-water resource degradation by salts, toxic elements, pesticides, and pathogens released from animal wastes.
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ARS research is organized into National Programs. These programs serve to bring coordination, communication and empowerment to approximately 750 research projects carried out by ARS. The National Programs focus on the relevance, impact, and quality of ARS research. ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority and provide information access and dissemination. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific in-house research agency.
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The Office of International Research Programs (OIRP) acts as the main platform and main contact for international activities in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It enables regional specialists to engage with international partnerships that can enhance the productivity, effectiveness, and impact of ARS National Programs, as well as further the goals of the United States government. The ARS has formal agreement with over 50 countries around the world.
| | | Data collection and management, Design of approaches, Implementation | North America | |
ARS Datasets provides links to collections of data that are accessible or searchable online or can be downloaded, and are maintained by the Agricultural Research Service or by ARS in cooperation with other organizations: http://www.ars.usda.gov/services/docs.htm?docid=1328
ARS scientists publish results of their research projects in many formats; there is a list of the publications from research projects; http://www.ars.usda.gov/services/services.htm?modecode=20-36-05-00&filteryear=2014
| | | | | | | Desertification, Salinization, Land and forest degradation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Desertification, Salinization, Land and forest degradation | | | | Research institution | | http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/research.htm | NWP |
| | 11702 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
The Centre holds relations with bilateral and multilateral agencies such as the USAID, FAO, WHO, IRD, CIRAD and others and he is engaged, in connection with CILSS, in international meetings on food security, sustainable development, management of natural resources and the fight against desertification.
AGRHYMET collects data and produces documentation on agrometeorology, plant protection, environmental monitoring, desertification and natural resource management.
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Created in 1974, AGRHYMET is a specialized agency of the Permanent Inter-State Committee against Drought in the Sahel (CILSS) of thirteen African countries.
It is a public interstate with legal personality and financial autonomy. AGRHYMET's main objective is to inform and train on Sahelien food security, desertification control and water control and management.
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The AGRHYMET has established itself as a regional center for:
- Training of cadres of the Sahel and elsewhere
- Agro-meteorological and hydrological monitoring at the regional level
- Agricultural statistics and crop monitoring
- Regional data banks
- Management and dissemination of information on the monitoring of natural resources in the Sahel
- Maintenance of meteorological instruments and electronic equipment
- Strengthening cooperation interstate through the exchange of technology and methodology.
| | | Stakeholder engagement, Data collection and management | Africa | |
The Sahel on Climate Change:
http://www.agrhymet.ne/PDF/pdfeng/specialChCang.pdf
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Desertification | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Desertification | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | http://www.agrhymet.ne/eng/ | NWP |
| | 11703 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
Anatrack has built the Naturalliance portal as part of a knowledge management tool which provides maps for forecasting the riches of nature across Europe. Like weather-forecasting, Anatrack combines the use of science and mapping to forecast how the riches of nature will change as land and climate changes. Naturalliance delivers local environment decision support for the TESS concept (Transactional Environmental Support System). Initially, Naturalliance provides best practice examples to the public, the Anatrack Mapper to encourage map-based modelling and monitoring of wildlife populations, links to existing specialised decision support, and other facilities attractive to stakeholders.
Detailed maps are needed to forecast and restore effects of farming, forestry and other land-management on livelihoods and biodiversity. Anatrack’s Mapper was designed to make mapping practical for anyone from age 5 upwards, using symbols for intuitive controls and with legends or help easily translated to any language. It maps over any image with two anchor coordinates, with special support for Google Earth and GPS.
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Anatrack Ltd is a spin-off from the United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC-CEH). Founded in 2000, its primary purpose has been to develop and market ecological software designed in NERC-CEH, with a particular interest in the development of specialist GIS software for modelling animal populations in relation to human impacts and especially changing land-use. Anatrack now also conducts research more widely on environmental topics, mostly for the European Commission.
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Anatrack has arranged courses on radio-tagging, field-work and data analysis for various organizations. They have a Handbook for Wildlife Radio-Tagging and distribute it at universities, government institutes, conferences and other research or conservation organizations.
| | | Design of approaches, Communication and outreach | Europe | |
Tools for monitoring habitat and species: http://www.naturalliance.eu/habitats_and_species_bqxopxf_yrxcqwp.aspx
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | Private sector | | http://www.anatrack.com/about_anatrack.php | NWP |
| | 11704 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in North America; Those in the Polar regions
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The Institute hosts ArcticConnect, a network-enabled platform for realizing geospatial referencing of information about the arctic system derived from research, education, and private sector activities in the arctic and subarctic. This platform contains the Arctic Web Map (AWM) that provides an Arctic-specific web mapping tool allowing researchers to customize map projections for scientifically accurate visualization and analysis, a function that is critical for arctic system research but missing in existing web mapping platforms. It will also provide a visually appealing tool for education and outreach to a wider audience. It also contains the Arctic Scholar, enabling researchers, educators, interested private sector entities, government agencies, and the general public to access and share arctic data and information contained in assorted formats including publications, grey literature, research licenses, photo archives, field notes, and project metadata from arctic field stations.
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The Arctic Institute of North America was created by an Act of Parliament in 1945 as a non-profit tax-exempt research and educational organization. Originally based at McGill University in Montreal, the institute moved to the University of Calgary in 1976. In 1979 the Institute became part of the University of Calgary as a university research institute.
The Institute's mandate is to advance the study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities and to acquire, preserve and disseminate information on physical, environmental and social conditions in the North.
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Each year, the Arctic Institute of North America hosts the Arctic Speaker Series In addition, the institute offers a post-doctoral program, and a Research Associates program.
| | | Communication and outreach | Polar regions, North America | |
ArcticConnect, geospatial referencing of information about the arctic system derived from research, education, and private sector activities in the arctic and subarctic: www.arcticconnect.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WX0TMNIOtY
Arctic Institute of North America Collection: http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/aina3
| | | | | | | Glacial retreat | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Glacial retreat | | | | University/education/training organization | | http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/ | NWP |
| | 11705 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
ALRC’s target beneficiaries include regional communities throughout the world that are already, or will likely be, vulnerable to desertification and/or drought that are mostly caused by the climate change. ALRC has been making efforts, aiming to contribute to those global and regional societies by providing them with scientific knowledge and techniques relevant to combating desertification, improving environmental reclamation, increasing agricultural production and solving health problems.
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ALRC evaluates the effects of losses on health and specific disease in dryland regions. It also conducts analyses of the ecology of wild large animals and conservation of endangered species and biodiversity in dryland regions. The prediction of salt accumulation and soil erosion helps the development of methods to prevent or remedy soil degradation.
ALRC designs the breeding of drought tolerant crop lines by gene and chromosome engineering for dryland regions, as well as establish sustainable agriculture in dryland regions by developing technical packages, contributing to the improvement of agricultural production and vegetation restoration in drylands.
ALRC provides observations and works to understand the meteorological phenomena in the atmospheric boundary layer and Monitor and model plant production and ecosystem change in drylands.
ALRC provides for the development and dissemination of technologies for environmental restoration, e.g. the Exhibition Room for Arid lands: used to teach visitors about arid lands and deserts using realistic three-dimensional models, audiovisual aids, and display panels. It introduces visitors to key concepts about the natural environment, desertification processes, and agricultural and revegetation techniques in arid regions, and exhibits specimens and data obtained during field surveys.
The followings are examples of ALRC’s work and research activities:
“Asian Dust Project” (2011-2015)
The goal of this project is to assess the dust effects on human health and environments, to elucidate the dust emission and sandstorm mechanism, and to develop mitigation techniques.
Partner institutions: Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment of Mongolia , Mongolian State University of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia University (China), Inner Mongolia Agricultural University (China), Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, CAS (CAREERI, China), Desert Research Institute (DRI, USA), University of Cologne (Germany), etc.
“Marginal Region Agriculture Project” (2015-2018)
This project aims to develop crop husbandry technology in marginal rain-fed environment using dryland plant resources.
Partner Institutions: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA, Lebanon), Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC, Sudan), Lanzhou University (China), National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Animal Research (INIFAP)
Establishment of “Laboratory of Arid Land Plant Resources (ALPR)” (April 2012 -)
ALPR systematically collects indigenous plant species and drought tolerant crop genotypes growing in arid land, multiplies and provides them for joint researchers.
“Land management to mitigate soil erosion in the upper Blue Nile River Basin” (2013-2018)
Partner Institutions: Bahir-Dar University (Ethiopia), ARC-Institute for Soil, Climate and Water (South Africa)
“Enhancing food security using water harvesting in West Bank of Palestine” (2014-2016)
Partner Institutions: An-Najah University (Palestine)
Other research activities:
“Glomalin accumulation and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of grassland ecosystem in dust source areas”
“Relationship between exclusive invasion of alien vegetation and heterogeneity of sub-surface zone in arid environment”
“Development of monitoring system for Asian dust in East Asia”
“Root physical and chemical characteristics in relation to salt tolerance in crops”
“Elucidation of abscisic acid signaling pathway in plant growth regulation”
“Research on the relationship between symbiotic microorganisms and stress tolerance of plants”.
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ALRC, Tottori University, was established in 1990 as a National Joint-Use Research Facility designated by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. ALRC is working to strengthen both domestic and international cooperation in dryland studies as a consequence of the Japanese government’s ratification in 1998 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. With the clear goal of combating desertification, improving environmental reclamation, increasing agricultural production and solving health problems, ALRC conducts research on creating sustainable relationship between nature and society in drylands.
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Prof. Atsushi Tsunekawa attended the UNCCD COP10, 11 and 12 as a member of Japanese delegations for the Committee on Science and Technology (CST). Also, ALRC has been accredited as observer to UNCCD COP.
ALRC is one of the member institutions of the Global Network of Dryland Research Institutes (GNDRI http://www.gndri.net/). In addition, ALRC participates in CWANA+ network (Central and West Asia and North Africa and neighboring dry areas in Western China, South Asia and Saharan Africa) hosted by UNU and ICARDA.
| | | Assessment, Design of approaches, Data collection and management, Development of strategies, Stakeholder engagement, Communication and outreach | Asia | Global |
The Arid Land Dome was constructed in 1998 to enhance the efficiency of research at the ALRC. It consists of a dome-shaped glasshouse, which has an environmental control system to simulate the climate of arid regions, and several attached facilities, such as desertification mechanism analysis system, monitoring system for water and solute transport, three dimensional erosion analysis system.
| Japan, China, Mongolia, Myanmar, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Korea, Australia, USA, Mexico, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, Qatar, Sweden, Austria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. | | | | | | Desertification, Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Salinization | 14/03/2016 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Desertification, Increasing Temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity | | | | Research institution | | http://www.alrc.tottori-u.ac.jp/english/about/index.html | NWP |
| | 11706 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
ASEAN TEEB Scoping Study gathered and reviewed existing evidence on the value of ecosystem services in Southeast Asia. It identified key critical ecosystems and ecosystems services in Southeast Asia, conducted an initial set of case studies to highlight the value of ecosystem services, and identified and recommended policy relevant case studies in ASEAN Member States to be conducted in a future full ASEAN TEEB study. The objective of the ASEAN TEEB Scoping Study is to pursue the mainstreaming process of the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity by conducting an assessment and valuation of key ecosystems and ecosystem services in Southeast Asia. The study also aims to assist ASEAN Member States to develop green growth economies.
In order to ensure that the results of the TEEB for Oceans and Coasts are useful to an established audience, collaborative project mapping and design are used to secure the long-term engagement of relevant stakeholder and key partners in the policy, governance, industry and community/civil society.
A ‘TEEB for Oceans&Coasts’ study is led by the UNEP Regional Seas Programme, in partnership with GRID-Arendal and the UNEP TEEB Office. The project is meant to draw attention to the economic benefits of ocean and coastal biodiversity and healthy ecosystems and emphasize the unrealized benefits of preserved and enhanced whole ecosystem structures, functions and processes to the well-being of humans and nature. TEEB for Oceans and Coasts is also developing a holistic ecosystem services framework in an effort to bridge the knowledge gap that exists between the demand for better information about the value of marine resources, and the understanding of how these values can be used to inform policy decisions. Building upon the original TEEB, this project builds the capacity of coastal and ocean decisionmakers, so that they are able to take ecosystem service values into account in their decision-making.
TEEB for Oceans and Coasts communicates information about the economics of ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services in a holistic, flexible fashion, across a wide
variety of societal sectors. The project makes use of the media, print publications,
in person communication, social media, and online tools, including a web-based knowledge portal to engage in targeted outreach and awareness-raising.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.
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The ASEAN Community is comprised of three pillars, namely the ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. Each pillar has its own Blueprint, and, together with the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Strategic Framework and IAI Work Plan Phase II (2009-2015), they form the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community 2009-2015.
| | | Communication and outreach, Stakeholder engagement, Investment | Asia | |
Publications: http://www.asean.org/resources/category/asean-publications-3
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Sea level rise | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Sea level rise | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | http://www.teebweb.org/countryprofile/asean/ | NWP |
| | 11707 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
ADB plays an important role in leading the region to a green growth path through financing and innovative technologies. From 2011 to 2014, ADB approved over $13 billion of climate financing, with $12.6 billion in loans, grants, guarantees, and equity investments, and $438 million in technical assistance. ADB's own resources provided $11.18 billion while external resources contributed a little over $2.0 billion. Through mechanisms such as the Climate Investment Funds, multilateral development banks have mobilized $6.5 billion for climate action in developing countries, with $2.5 billion earmarked for Asia and the Pacific. As an implementing entity of the Green Climate Fund, ADB has access to potential $100B annual fund for climate change actions in the Asia Pacific region.
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Since its founding in 1966, ADB has been driven by an inspiration and dedication to improving people’s lives in Asia and the Pacific. ADB’s climate change strategic priorities
•Expanding the use of clean energy
•Encouraging sustainable transport and urban development
•Managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration
•Promoting climate-resilient development
•Strengthening policies, governance and capacities
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Annual meetings are held in a member country in late April or early May. Annual meetings are statutory occasions for Governors of ADB members to provide guidance on ADB administrative, financial, and operational directions.
| | | Investment | Asia | |
Publications: http://www.adb.org/about/knowledge-management/publications
| | | | | | | Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Sea level rise | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Increasing Temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Sea level rise | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
| | 11708 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in Asia; Those in the Pacific/Oceania
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APAN carries out research and policy analysis in the area of loss and damage and slow onset events in general. Some of the outputs include:
A policy brief Towards an urban agenda on climate-related loss and damage, explaining the importance of assessing urban loss and damage in both the formal and informal sectors, and of economic and non-economic types to provide a clearer picture of impacts of climate change.
Policy brief on Risk transfer mechanisms for climate adaptation financing: Policy trends and options.
Co-organizing an international conference: Adaptation and Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change in Asia Pacific: Integrating Scientific Aspects in 2013.
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Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) was established in October 2009 as part of the Global Climate Adaptation Network (GAN). It is the first network under the GAN supported by the UNEP, IGES, AIT-UNEP RRCAP, ADB, SIDA, and APN.
The mission of APAN is to build climate change resilient and sustainable human systems, ecosystems and economies through the mobilisation of knowledge, enhanced institutional capacity and informed decision making‐processes, and facilitated access to finance and technologies.
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Once a year APAN co-organizes the Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum that attracts worldwide scientists, development workers, government officials, academicians, international organizations, students, and representatives from civil society, who come together to discuss climate change adaptation topics.
| | | Design of approaches | Asia, Pacific/Oceania | |
Publications and activities related to loss and damage: http://www.asiapacificadapt.net/keyword/loss-and-damage
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Sea level rise | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Increasing Temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Sea level rise | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | http://www.asiapacificadapt.net/ | NWP |
| | 11709 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
The Climate Adaptation Framework, developed at the Kobe workshop and revised in April 2013, aims to enhance science-based adaptation activities of APN developing countries and comprises the following components: regional research programme that has a capacity building element; capacity building programme (including projects at national and sub-national scales); activities jointly conducted with other organisations and networks.
The activities under the CAF in 2013-2014 include:
Focused activities on adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and loss& damage
In light of the increasing needs for enhancing activities on climate adaptation, APN launched a set of focused activities on adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in Asia Pacific region (CAF-DRR-L&D) under the Climate Adaptation Framework. Activities in the pipeline include:
Two workshops on disaster risk reduction, loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific for knowledge sharing and partnership development (the first one held in August 2013); A special call for proposals for regional research and capacity building activities related to loss and damage. (September 2013).
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The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is an intergovernmental network that promotes policy-oriented research and capacity-building activities related to global change in the region. It was founded in March 1996. The APN Secretariat is based in Kobe, Japan, hosted by the Hyogo Prefectural Government.
APN aims at making the Asia-Pacific region succesful in addressing the challenges of global change and sustainability.
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The core partners of the APN are Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP) located at Asian Institute for Technology (AIT), and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). UNEP ROAP acts as the secretariat in charge of Steering Committee and for providing technical inputs to APAN. A series of meetings and workshops since February 2011 has identified important existing gaps for the Asia-Pacific region requiring attention through comprehensive scientific research, capacity development and science-policy mechanisms.
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Resources related to the CAF: http://www.apn-gcr.org/programmes-and-activities/focused-activities/climate-adaptation-framework/#
| | | | | | | Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Sea level rise | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Increasing Temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Sea level rise | | | | Intergovernmental organization (IGO) | | | NWP |
| | 11710 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
BRCAS conducts biodiversity-related projects and publishes papers in noted scientific journals. They also assist governments in making biodiversity-related policy, and promote biodiversity education. Relevant research includes population genetics and molecular evolution; biological systematics; ecological and behavioural studies; preservation and restoration; and integration of biodiversity database and information networks in Taiwan.
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The Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica (BRCAS) was officially established in January 2004. In line with the Convention on Biological Diversity, BRCAS was formed with the view of lowering species extinction, gene disappearance, resource reduction and ecosystem degradation on earth.
The mission of BRCAS is to promote, coordinate, and sponsor basic biodiversity research in Taiwan; to advance domestic and international research collaboration; to integrate biological, biotechnological, ecological, and socio-economical disciplines in pursuit of academic excellence and innovation; and to provide the scientific foundation for the conservation, education, and sustainable use of biodiversity.
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BRCAS hosts symposiums and seminars on biodiversity and ecological research.
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Research publications: http://biodiv.sinica.edu.tw/en/index.php?p_id=26
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| | 11711 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in Africa; Those in Asia; Those in the Caribbean and Central America; Those in Europe; Those in North America; Those in the Pacific/Oceania; Those in the Polar regions; Those in South America
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BioNET is working in partnership with the Natural History Museum in London (NHM) to carry out taxonomic needs assessments in support of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation.
Through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, governments around the world have recognised the vital importance of taxonomic science in our changing world and the imperative of building capacity, particularly in developing countries. Parties to the Convention have asked for a 'Special Fund' to be established to address the need for sustainable long-term funding of human and institutional capacities and to mainstream the use of novel practices in taxonomy. Since 2006, BioNET has led the planning and concept development of the 'Special Fund' project with the support of an international Interim Steering Committee.
BioNET’s regional networks have partnership-based programmes of work including typically e.g. the identification of taxonomic needs; human resource development; adoption and use of technologies; training and facilities for biological collections; and increasing access to literature and information. LOOP work programmes serve as a framework for activities to be supported by member institutions, governments, international partners and development agencies. LOOPs provide BioNET and its international partners with in-depth local knowledge and direct insights into local priorities and institutional opportunities for developing taxonomic products and capacity. BioNET's Secretariat plays a critical role in helping LOOPs respond to local taxonomic priorities by mobilising expertise and technical partnerships with capacity building organizations and technology initiatives.
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BioNET is a global network for taxonomy. It is an international initiative dedicated to promoting the science and use of taxonomy, especially in the economically poorer countries of the world. Currently, the network comprises ten government-endorsed regional networks, the 'Locally Owned and Operated Partnerships' (LOOPs), encompassing institutions and 3,000 individuals in over 100 countries, and a Secretariat in the UK hosted by CAB International (CABI), an international not-for-profit organization.
BioNET strives to enhance biodiversity conservation and human well-being by building capacity to discover, name and classify the world’s living organisms.
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Working via local and international partnerships, BioNET strives to provide a forum for collaboration that is equally open to all taxonomists and to the other users of taxonomy. Their work contributes to raising awareness of the importance of taxonomy to society, building and sharing of capacity, and meeting taxonomic needs via innovative tools and approaches.
| | | Assessment, Investment, Stakeholder engagement | Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Central America, Europe, North America, Pacific/Oceania, Polar regions, South America | |
Taxonomical needs assessment: http://www.bionet-intl.org/opencms/opencms/tnaPages/TNAmainPage2.html
BioNET bulletin: http://www.bionet-intl.org/opencms/opencms/bulletin
Taxonomy case studies: http://www.bionet-intl.org/opencms/opencms/caseStudies/default.jsp
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| | 11712 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in Africa; Those in the Caribbean and Central America; Those in the Pacific/Oceania; Those in Asia
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Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization. It deliver scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural and tree biodiversity to attain sustainable global food and nutrition security. The organization is registered as a registered charity in the United Kingdom and a non-profit organization in the United States, with regional offices in Sub-Sahara Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific and Oceanic. It is a member of the CGIAR Consortium.
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Bioversity International engages in key events such as the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference World Farmers' Organisation General Assembly
| | | Communication and outreach, Data collection and management, Assessment, Stakeholder engagement | Africa, Caribbean and Central America, Asia, Pacific/Oceania | |
Publications: A series of document published online such as articles, Newsletters, Reports, Factsheet and so on; http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/
Multimedia Library: a selection of videos about how agricultural and tree biodiversity is benefitting smallholder farmers and rural communities living in poverty around the world http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/multimedia-library/
| | | | | | | Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Salinization | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Salinization | | | | Research institution | | http://www.bioversityinternational.org/ | NWP |
| | 11713 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in Africa; Those in Asia; Those in the Caribbean and Central America; Those in Europe; Those in the Pacific/Oceania; Those in North America
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Implementation: The BGCI's Ecological Restoration Alliance (ERA) plans to restore 100 damaged, degraded or destroyed ecosystems. Restoration projects will be conducted on six continents, drawing on the proven restoration knowledge, capacity and experience of the allied botanic gardens, arboreta and seed banks. Additionally, the ‘Enhancing Tree Conservation and Forest Restoration in Africa’ project identifies the status and distribution of endangered trees in ex-situ collections. Forest restoration plots have been set up with botanic garden partners in Kenya and Uganda, and additional sites and partners for further restoration work have been identified across Africa. This project builds upon a previous BGCI project called ‘Grow Africa’ which analysed collections of native trees held in botanic gardens in Uganda, DRC and Kenya.
Involving stakeholders: In Pakistan, BGCI works with representatives from forestry departments and local communities to fully engage them in the recovery programmes, providing local stakeholders with training. Seedlings transferred to the pilot restoration sites are planted in specially demarcated plots. Local stakeholders need to be trained to ensure the highest possible survival rates through appropriate tending methods. At the global level, this project directly contributes to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 – 2020 and the Aichi Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity, specifically Target 15.
Communication: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)’s Access& Benefit Sharing Clearing-House (ABS Clearing-House) is an online resource to demystify access and benefit sharing between botanic gardens around the world. These pages have been developed by BGCI in conjunction with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the International Plant Exchange Network (IPEN).
Communication: BGCI’s database is accessible through various online platforms like Plantsearch (providing an overview of plants in cultivation in botanic gardens) and ENSCONET’s (European Native Seed Conservation Network) database of plants conserved in European seed banks.
Assessment: BGCI is leading global efforts to assess the conservation status of tree species. The approach involves undertaking regional and global Red List assessments, following the categories and criteria developed by IUCN. A joint research project undertaken by BGCI and the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change at Bournemouth University (BU) is assessing the impact of climate change on the world’s montane tree species and assessing extinction risk.
Data collection: BGCI has compiled a database containing the red list of endangered species data ofrom 30 European countries, including over 16,000 country records covering around 9,600 species.
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BGCI is the world authority on botanic gardens and plant conservation. BGCI develop and implement of global policy – specifically the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) - at a global, regional, national, and local level. Activities are conducted through its secretariat in London and regional offices in the USA and China to deliver the objectives of the GSPC.
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The International Plant Sentinel Network (IPSN) is being developed to facilitate collaboration amongst institutes around the world, with a focus on linking botanic gardens and arboreta, National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs) and plant health scientists.
BGCI provides the Secretariat for the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation, which brings together international, regional and national organizations in order to contribute to the implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).
| | | Implementation, Stakeholder engagement, Communication and outreach, Assessment, Data collection and management | Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Central America, Europe, Pacific/Oceania, North America | |
BGCI’s PlantSearch database is a vital contribution to documenting the status of ex situ plant conservation at the global level and monitoring progress (https://www.bgci.org/plant_search.php)
Garden Search is global source of information on the world's botanic gardens (https://www.bgci.org/garden_search.php)
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | Non-governmental organization (NGO) | | | NWP |
| | 11714 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | |
The Canadian Friends of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a civil society association hosted by the Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN). The cross-sectoral association translates the goals from the CBD’s new 10-year Strategic Plan into actions that can be implemented within the context of current domestic needs and priorities. This association brings together stakeholders from academia, industry, municipalities and non-governmental organizations to play an active role in meeting Canada's commitments to the CBD and safeguarding biodiversity globally.
Throughout the year, the RCEN is coordinating projects and activities with Canadian civil society groups to increase understanding of the role played by biodiversity in sustaining life on Earth. The RCEN Fisheries listserve currently shares information regarding the Fisheries Act Renewal, and provides an excellent opportunity to network and strategize with other ENGOs across Canada who are active on this issue.
RCEN uses Podio for its collaborative projects. Podio is a new type of online collaboration software where sharing, communicating and getting work done takes place in one online platform. Additionally, the Building Blocks Webinar Series offers practical skills development, expert advice, and knowledge-sharing opportunities to Canada’s environmental NGO community (ENGO). These free online webinars provide ENGO staff members, volunteers and directors with training and information on current issues of concern for small, medium and larger groups.
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The Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) facilitates cooperation and networking amongst non-profit, non-governmental environmental organizations across Canada and internationally. As the organization is volunteer based, the Board members, Caucus members and volunteers carry out activities in support of the network. The organization is informed and governed by RCEN by-laws.
RCEN aims to protect the Earth and promote ecologically sound ways of living by working directly with government agencies, community organizations, and volunteers from coast to coast.
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There is an annual General Meeting (AGM) on Water, Fisheries and Oceans. The RCEN and its members regularly coordinate special projects, which strengthen the environmental movement in Canada. Such as the annual Conference on the Environment to other events and activities; also, the National Fish Habitat Coordinating Committee (NFHCC) of RCEN provides a forum at the national level for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' (DFO) Habitat Management Program and the environmental NGO (ENGO) community to share information and perspectives as well as to facilitate progress on common priorities.
| | | Design of approaches, Stakeholder engagement, Communication and outreach | North America | |
RCEN Biodiversity Best Practices Handbook; http://rcen.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/bio_handbook09_web_eng.pdf
RCEN Youth Friendly Guide; http://rcen.ca/sites/default/files/youth_guide.pdf
| | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
| | 11715 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in North America; Those in the Polar regions
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CNNRO member facilities range from oceanographic research vessels and long-established research institutes and observatories, to seasonal field stations and un-staffed remote monitoring installations representing every major ecological region in Canada’s North. CNNRO collects arctic data collection and provide the infrastructure and the know-how that make research possible
Investment: The organization works with federal departments and agencies, territorial governments, national and regional organizations involved in supporting northern research to encourage financial and logistical support for northern researchers.
The CNNRO maintains an up-to-date on-line registry (the Map of Northern Research Facilities) of all available northern research facilities without regard to size or governance and it takes an active part in the planning for the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS).
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CNNRO is a forum for operators of the many research facilities scattered across the Canadian Arctic and Subarctic. It was formed in 2007 to facilitate collaboration and exchange of information among all stakeholders who share an interest in infrastructure and logistics to support research in northern Canada.
The CNNRO aims to fully address Canada’s international obligations for Arctic data collection and knowledge exchange within the circumpolar world.
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The Center maintains an on-line registry of practical information about the research facilities and promotes their services to the northern research community. The CNNRO helps northern research operators improve efficiency and lower their costs by sharing information and facilitating collaboration. CNNRO holds at least one meeting a year.
| | | Data collection and management, Communication and outreach | North America, Polar regions | |
Atmospheric Radionuclides Monitoring Station :http://new.cnnro.org/churchill-atmospheric-radionuclides-monitoring-station/
Northern field research stations: http://new.cnnro.org/churchill-northern-studies-centre/
| | | | | | | Glacial retreat | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Glacial retreat | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
| | 11716 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in Europe; Those in the Polar regions
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CDIAC provides data management support for the ongoing Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP). As of today, the GLODAP database consists of data from 122 World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) cruises as well as other international and historical cruises. WOCE is a major component of the World Climate Research Program, with an overall goal to better understand the ocean’s role in climate and climatic changes resulting from both natural and anthropogenic causes. The CDIAC measurements come from deep and shallow waters from all oceans. Additionally, the CDIAC Ocean Carbon Data Management Project has been organizing, quality assuring, documenting, archiving and distributing ocean carbon-related data collected via a number of U.S. and international ocean-observing programs. The measurements come from deep and shallow waters from all oceans. Individuals and groups can contribute relevant data to the CDIAC data collection through a prescribe process. An online process allows direct ocean carbon data CDIAC from individual investigators and groups following initial review.
CDIAC' estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel consumption and land-use changes; records of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active trace gases; carbon cycle and terrestrial carbon management datasets and analyses; global and regional climate data and time series; and analyses of land-cover/land-use change.
CDIAC's holdings include data for the Western North Atlantic (including adjacent seas), Eastern North Atlantic (including adjacent seas) and the Eastern North Pacific. All data is available free of charge.
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Since 1982, CDIAC has served as the primary climate-change data and information analysis centre of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). CDIAC is supported by DOE's Climate and Environmental Sciences Division of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Rising atmospheric CO2 and climate change are increasing ocean temperatures and affecting ocean chemistry (e.g., ocean acidification). Monitoring these important changes using ships and other platforms generates large amounts of data from heterogeneous sources.
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CDIAC provides scientific and data management support for projects sponsored by a number of agencies. CDIAC's also provides primary climate-change data and information analysis free of charge.
| | | Data collection and management, Communication and outreach | Europe, Polar regions | |
WOCE carbon database is available from the CDIAC Ocean Web site; http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/CDIACmap.html
The organization’s Ocean CO2 programme: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/
All Oceanographic Data and Metadata;
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/datmet.html
| | | | | | | Ocean acidification, Increasing temperatures | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ocean acidification, Increasing Temperatures | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
| | 11717 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in the Caribbean and Central America
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The report "Assessment of strategies for linking the Damage and Loss Assessment Methodology to the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment" was prepared at the request of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) to assess strategies for linking the ECLAC Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA)Methology to the Post Disaster Needs Assessment(PDNA).Each metholodolgy was individually outlined and their use in the Caribbean context was explored in detail to set the framework or lens through which their linking would be viewed. Other methologies that are used within the recovery process were identified and outlined.A gap analysis was conducted on moving from the PDNA with a focus on initial rapid reponse to DaLA.
DaLA training materials were reviewed to assess where improvements can be madeto seamlessly move from one methology to the next. Additionally, both DaLA and PDNA reports were reviewed to identify specific are as of information which could serve as common data links, and note how this linkage could inform the overall disaster assessments in the region . This is in addition to noting any similarities or variance in the application of both methologies.
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In 2007, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility was formed as the first multi-country risk pool in the world, and was the first insurance instrument to successfully develop parametric policies backed by both traditional and capital markets. It was designed as a regional catastrophe fund for Caribbean governments to limit the financial impact of devastating hurricanes and earthquakes by quickly providing financial liquidity when a policy is triggered.
Since the inception of CCRIF in 2007, the facility has made 13 payouts for hurricanes, earthquakes and excess rainfall to 8 member governments totalling approximately US$38 million to eight member governments.
CCRIF was developed under the technical leadership of the World Bank and with a grant from the Government of Japan. It was capitalised through contributions to a multi-donor Trust Fund by the Government of Canada, the European Union, the World Bank, the governments of the United Kingdom and France, the Caribbean Development Bank and the governments of Ireland and Bermuda, as well as through membership fees paid by participating governments.
Sixteen Caribbean governments are currently members of the facility.
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CCRIF partners with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC),
Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Management Agency, the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, CARICOM, Caribbean development Bank, etc.
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Assessment of strategies for linking the Damage and Loss Assessment Methodology to the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment: http://www.ccrif.org/sites/default/files/publications/Assessment_of_Strategies_for_linking_the_DaLA_and_PDNA_2014.pdf
Climate risk insurance in the context of adaptation and loss and damage (workshop report): http://www.ccrif.org/sites/default/files/publications/ClimateRiskInsuranceContextAdaptationLossDamageWorkshopReport-October2012.pdf
| | | | | | | Increasing temperatures, Sea level rise, Ocean acidification | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Increasing Temperatures, Sea level rise, Ocean acidification | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
| | 11718 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in the Caribbean and Central America
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CCCCC provides country specific vulnerability assessments and adaptation option appraisals to the member countries of the caribbean community. The Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation tool, CCORAL, is an online support system that helps each country's members analyse existing risk management approaches for climate resilient decision making. By using CCORAL, decision makers will be able to demonstrate to funders, investors and development partners that climate resilience has been considered and integrated into relevant activities.
Data is collected by the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO), with observational data provided by the National Meteorological Services for each CARICOM country. The CCCCC is also the official repository and clearing house for regional climate change data, with a regional clearing house database on sea level rise, and ocean acidification (e.g. CCORAL is a living tool and is updated as and when new information becomes available).
The Centre serves as the executing agency for projects related to climate change in the Caribbean.
As a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agency, the CCCCC provides technical experts on climate risk assessment with adaptation options for decision-making and coordinates investment opportunities for the 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies of CARICOM. Additionally, they established a Trust Fund as a mechanism to provide support in situations where external funds are not readily available. The CCCCC is made up of Government agencies, non-governmental and civil society organizations, universities, research institutions, private sector, financial services, and development partners.
The Centre develops appropriate courses for different organizations and levels of management in issues related to climate change.
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Officially opened in August 2005, the Centre is the key node for information on climate change issues. It is a repository and clearing house for regional climate change information and data and provides climate change-related policy advice and guidelines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States.
CCCCC has a regional platform with a mandate to coordinate the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries’ responses to climate change.
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Knowledge platform and a clearinghouse for regional climate change data and documentation. CCCCC is the region’s premier repository of information and data on climate change specific to the region.
| | | Assessment, Data collection and management, Implementation, Investment, Communication and outreach | Caribbean and Central America | |
The Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation tool – CCORAL; http://ccoral.caribbeanclimate.bz/
| | | | | | | Sea level rise, Ocean acidification | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sea level rise, Ocean acidification | | | | Intergovernmental organization (IGO) | | http://www.caribbeanclimate.bz | NWP |
| | 11719 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in the Caribbean and Central America
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Since 1974, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has been responding to requests from its member countries for assistance with post-disaster rehabilitation. The Disaster Management Strategy and Operational Guidelines 2009, provide a comprehensive approach to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.
CBD provides grants, such as the approved a grant to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre for the establishment of an Information Clearinghouse to 1. Support the scientific research component of the Centre’s work programme, and 2. Improve access to scientifically credible knowledge resources and tools necessary to support sound decision-making concerning climate change and sustainable development. The activities will include: procuring hardware and software to improve data storage to establish an Information Clearinghouse, project management and short-term specialized services to design, establish and provide initial operational support for the Information Clearinghouse.
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The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is a financial institution which assists Caribbean nations in financing social and economic programs in its member countries. Created on October 18, 1969, by a conference of eighteen countries and territories in Kingston, Jamaica, it has its headquarters located in Bridgetown, Barbados adjacent to the campus of the Samuel Jackson Prescod Polytechnic (SJPP).
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CBD partners with a vast number of regional partners, such as the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC); Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH); Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in respect of handling climate change impacts.
| | | Investment | Caribbean and Central America | |
Disaster management strategy and operational guidelines 2009:
http://www.caribank.org/uploads/2012/05/Disaster-Mgmt-Strategy-and-Operational-Guidelines-2009.pdf
| | | | | | | Sea level rise, Ocean acidification, Loss of biodiversity, Increasing temperatures | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sea level rise, Ocean acidification, Loss of biodiversity, Increasing Temperatures | | | | Intergovernmental organization (IGO) | | | NWP |
| | 11720 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in the Caribbean and Central America
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CIMH has been engaged in some projects that support damage and loss. These activities are either funded through the core operating budget of the Institute or through grant funded projects.
• Support through core funding:
o In this case, CIMH periodically uses funds from its operating budget to respond to requests from CMO Member States requesting support to assess damage following hydro-meteorological events. In many cases these support relates to assessing flooding and landslides following events to determine the nature of the damage, its cause, the return period of the event (data permitting) and solutions to mitigate future damage and loss in the affected communities. This activity is largely event driven and relatively low budget. Reports from such exercises are prepared for the impacted country and shared with CDEMA, donor institutions and grant institutions. In some cases, countries have used such reports to acquire funds to address reduce vulnerability and improve early warning and alerting systems.
• Support through grant funding:
o The CIMH on occasion receives funds from various donor agencies to implement projects. Initiatives such as the Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN), Real-Time Flood Forecasting for the Caribbean, Caribbean Agrometeorological Initiative (CAMI), Enhancing Resilience to Reduce Vulnerability in the Caribbean (ERC) indirectly provide support to the estimation of loss and damage through the provision of (i) climate information and (ii) climate impacts. The CIMH remains engaged with other developmental partners in the region and often contribute to steering committees and project implementation teams on climate and hydrology related projects.
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The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology was established in 1967 by the member states of the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation (CMO). The CIMH, originally the Caribbean Meteorological Institute, provides training for the Region’s weather observers and technicians, weather forecasters, specialists in hydrology, agrometeorology and other related disciplines. The annual operations of the CMO are financed through subventions from Member States. A significant percentage of the subventions provided by Member States goes to meeting the operational needs of the CIMH. The operations of the CIMH are managed by its Board of Governors (drawn primarily from Member States) which meets annually to discuss and address matters related to the operations of the Institute. At the meeting, the progress made by the Institute over the prior 12-month period in its core programmes is presented and assessed; those core programmatic areas include training, research, development and support to Member States in the areas of weather, climate, water resources management, operational hydrology and instrument calibration and maintenance. While disaster risk reduction is not a core programme of the CIMH, it cuts across many of the core activities of the CIMH. As a result, the Institute expends a significant of its resources supporting disaster risk reduction.
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The CIMH consists of 5 thematic sections: (i) the Meteorological Section; (ii) the Hydrology Section; (iii) the Applied Meteorology & Climatology Section; (iv) the Instruments Section; and (v) the Administration Section. However, in many ways the Institute functions along the lines of a matrix organization with staff frequent working collaboratively across Sections.
The role and mission of the CIMH is to improve the meteorological and hydrological services and to assist in promoting the awareness of the benefits of these services for the economic well-being of the CMO countries. This is achieved through training, research and investigations, and the provision of specialised services and advice.
| | | Implementation, Data collection and management | Caribbean and Central America | |
Key current activities in which the CIMH has been engaged in addition to providing access to outputs and products that have been generated.
CDPMN - http://63.175.159.26/~cdpmn/cdpmn.html
ERC - http://63.175.159.26/erc/home/
Caribbean RCC - http://63.175.159.29:4880/
In addition to the above, the CIMH has also completed and supported a number of damage assessments and feasibility studies some of which support damage and loss estimation.
| | | | | | | Increasing temperatures | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Increasing Temperatures | | | | Research institution | | | NWP |
| | 11721 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Those in the Caribbean and Central America; Those in Africa; Those in Asia; Those in the Pacific/Oceania
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INTASAVE Oceans recognises the value and importance of coral reefs systems and their vital role in ecosystem services. Their vision is to restore coral reefs, protecting them for future generations and positively investing in local communities by:
- Re-growing to rebuild damaged reefs
- Empowering communities to manage their reefs
- Working with the private sector to generate alternative forms of income through tourism
INTASAVE-CARIBSAVE and the University of Cape Town are leading the climate adaptation communications and knowledge management components of ASSAR. This includes:
- Research on barriers and enablers in communicating adaptation knowledge across all levels of stakeholders and in different environment.
- Leading on the knowledge management and communication component.
- Coordination of the Knowledge Management& Communications Working Group to provide oversight and advisory input and a close link to learning and reflection agenda of the programme.
- South-South Learning, Exchange and Collaboration between target countries in Africa and Asia as well the wider southern development community.
- Providing technical input into cross-cutting issues including gender mainstreaming and gendered impacts of climate change, socio-economics, local participatory vulnerability assessments, livelihoods, monitoring and evaluation for results and the development of local actions plans for adaptation (LAPAs)
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CARIBSAVE (INTASAVE Caribbean) is a Caribbean regional not-for-profit organisation that innovates, connects and implements practical solutions for sustainable development and climate change. CARIBSAVE aims to bring together specialist knowledge, project management expertise, convening power and innovation with the goal of achieving a sustainable future for all.
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Partners with leading international organisations, including the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, United Nations (UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, WMO, UNWTO and FAO), developing world governments and the British, Australian and Amreican development agencies (UKAid, DfID, AusAID and USAID), European Commission, Oxford University and a host of other educational institutions around the world, businesses such as the Virgin Group and other international corporations.
| | | Investment, Stakeholder engagement, Communication and outreach | Caribbean and Central America, Africa, Asia, Pacific/Oceania | |
Strengthening Climate Change Resilience in Caribbean Coastal Communities
http://www.intasave.org/documents/Publications/Biodiversity,-Eco--Systems-and-Marine-Conservation/Posters/Strengthening-Climate-Change-Resilience-Poster.pdf
| | | | | | | Ocean acidification, Desertification, Increasing temperatures, Sea level rise | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ocean acidification, Desertification, Increasing Temperatures, Sea level rise | | | | Non-governmental organization (NGO) | | http://caribbean.intasave.org/ | NWP |
| | 11722 | | SOE | Those in Africa; Those in Asia; Those in the Caribbean and Central America; Those in the Pacific/Oceania
| CIFOR and its partners design several approaches, such as the participatory development approach, to ensure collaborative and equitable land-use planning process. For example, the Collaborative Land Use Planning and Sustainable Institutional arrangement for Strengthening Land Tenure, Forest and Community Rights in Indonesia (COLUPSIA) is a new approach to conservation and to the mitigation of environment degradation. Although still in its experimental phase, it incorporates payments and pro-poor markets for environmental services (PES) into land-use planning processes.
Indigenous communities are highly effective at protecting natural resources and can ‘fill the gap’ over vast regions where formal conservation authorities are absent. Scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are among the first to show how local communities are protecting extensive areas of land – in contrast to assumptions that such communities overuse or damage natural resources. The Levelling the Playing Field project is another example, of how CIFOR works with local communities. This project develops approaches and tools to promote good governance by facilitating local stakeholders to take collective decisions and to negotiate with other actors towards fair agreement about renewable resources management of tropical forests or forest lands.
In West Africa, CIFOR's Tropical Forest and Climate Change Adaptation (TroFCCA) takes into consideration regional initiatives on adaptation, in particular those on forest resource-dependent communities across the wide spectrum of forest types and along the existing precipitation gradient from Northern Mali to Southern Ghana. Furthermore, the African-Caribbean-Pacific Forest Research Network (ACP FORENET) produces forest-related research that will produce results directly applicable for the sustainable management of humid tropical forests.
CIFOR’s Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program provides policymakers with the credible scientific information needed to make sound decisions relating to the role of tropical wetlands. For example, the Wetlands Restoration and Conservation (WRC) project developed a ground-breaking emissions reduction accounting framework which allows restoration and conservation activities across wetland ecosystems to be credited. Its biodiversity category provides a framework for accounting for emission reductions in mangroves, tidal and coastal wetlands, marshes, seagrasses, floodplains, deltas, and peatlands among others. Another of CIFOR’s projects characterises forest degradation and carbon biomass assessment in tropical peatlands using multi remote sensing approaches.
CIFOR’s published research is available for free online, from journal articles, books and briefs, to brochures, flyers, and fact sheets.
| | | CIFOR is an international scientific facility which conducts research on the most pressing challenges affecting forest and landscapes management around the world. It aims to improve human well-being, protect the environment, and increase equity. Its headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, with offices in 8 countries across Asia, Latin America and Africa, with offices conducting work in more than 30 countries.
CIFOR is with a mandate to generate global public goods while endeavouring to support the country’s national forest policy research agenda and capacity building needs. It is committed to producing international public goods that influence the global forest agenda and have a positive impact on the world’s forests and its people.
| CIFOR is a member of the CGIAR Consortium and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry.
It also leads the science–policy interaction platform informed by existing initiatives, such as the Evidence-Based Forestry initiative. CIFOR organises and coordinates the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
| | | Design of approaches | Africa | Global, Local, National | CIFOR website provides various forms of Media communications such as news, blogs, and videos. The Publications section, of CIFOR website can by use by browsing by research theme or publication type, or use the search to find something specific http://www.cifor.org/library/
| | | | | Impact assessment, Science and research, Socio-economic data and information, Vulnerability assessment | Food security, Water resources, Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), Community-based adaptation (CBA), Gender | Land and forest degradation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity | | | | Intergovernmental organization (IGO), Research institution | | | NWP |
| | 11723 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE |
Our work has largely focused on reports for policy makers.
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The SEDAC Hazards Mapper enables users to easily display recent natural hazard data in relationship to population, human settlements, major infrastructure, and satellite imagery. Hazards data include the location of active fires over the past 48 hours; earthquake alerts over the past seven days; flood and tornado warnings in the U.S. in near real-time; and yesterday′s air pollution data measured from space. The mapper shows the location of major dams and nuclear power plants and provides more detailed information and imagery for these facilities where available.
By drawing a circle or polygon around a point or area of interest on the map, users can obtain an estimate of the total population and land area enclosed within. The mapper is designed to be used by disaster risk managers, humanitarian response organizations, public health professionals, journalists, and others needing a quick assessment of the potential dangers posed by a major hazardous event or developing emergency. For example, a disaster response agency can obtain a rough estimate of the population and major facilities near a recent earthquake or a predicted flood as an input into response planning.
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The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) was established in 1989 as an independent non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand the changing relationship between human beings and the environment.
In 1998, CIESIN became a center within the Columbia University Earth Institute. From its offices at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus in Palisades, New York, CIESIN continues to focus on applying state-of-the-art information technology to pressing interdisciplinary data, information, and research problems related to human interactions in the environment.
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CIESIN is actively engaged in a number of research areas that address the impacts of human activities and institutional arrangements on the environment, and in turn, the ways in which environmental change affects human health and welfare.
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Hazard Mapper: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/hazards/
Research on climate hazards: http://www.ciesin.org/res_apps.html#Anchor-Climat-24841
Reports and articles, especially reports “Where the Rainfalls” (2012), “In Search of Shelter” (2009), and “Evidence from the Frontlines” (2013) (see below and at http://www.ciesin.org/publications.html).
Evidence from the Frontlines of Climate Change: Loss and Damage to Communities Despite Coping and Adaptation(January 2013, 86 pages. 6.32 MB). A summary of research by the Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative of the United Nations University, and CIESIN, on the impact of climate change livelihood and infrastructure losses and economic damage among vulnerable households in the developing world. Case studies were carried out in five countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Gambia, Kenya, and Micronesia.
Where the Rain Falls: Climate Change, Food and Livelihood Security, and Migration Global Policy Report (November 2012, 73 pages, 3.65 MB PDF). An examination of the interplay between rainfall patterns, food security, and human mobility. The report, released by CIESIN, CARE and the United Nations University, provides evidence from fieldwork in seven countries, employing multi-disciplinary methods to investigate these relationships such as expert interviews, participatory research approaches, household surveys, and rainfall and migration scenarios.
In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. (June 2009, 26 pages, 2.54 MB PDF) Climate change impacts are already causing displacement and migration, and consequences for almost all aspects of development, including human security and political stability could be devastating, says this report produced by CARE, CIESIN, UNHCR,UNU-EHS, and The World Bank. Aimed at decision makers, the new report is based in part on empirical evidence from a recently completed research project supported by the European Commission: Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR, Contract Number 044468, www.each-for.eu.) It contains original maps that pinpoint areas where climate change may cause displacement, and policy recommendations.
| | | | | | | Desertification, Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Loss of biodiversity, Salinization, Sea level rise | 25/03/2016 | | | | | | CIESIN has worked on migration as a result of climate change. A current project explores loss and damage to ecosystem services from slow and rapid onset climate change impacts. | | | | | | | | | | Increasing Temperatures, Sea level rise, Land and forest degradation, Salinization, Ocean acidification | | | | Research institution, University/education/training organization | | | NWP |
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The Desertification Research Centre (CIDE) is a join institute of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), the University of Valencia and the Autonomous Government of Valencia.
The CIDE promotes multidisciplinary research and studies on desertification and environmental degradation in the Mediterranean region.
The CIDE is devoted to the research on the causes, factors and processes of Desertification. CIDE is composed of a multidisciplinary team of researchers devoted to the characterization and study of soils as a natural resource, their degradation and conservation measures; the ecology and evolution of plants; and the cartographic integration of the state and dynamics of the landscape components into thematic documents for land use planning. The CIDE is organized into three scientific Departments (Soil Degradation and Conservation, Land Use Planning and Plant Ecology), and several Services.
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The Department of soil degradation and conservation, within CIDE’s, participates nationally in the activities of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including initiatives and programmes and the composition of technical and legislative documents. CIDE also carries out an important educational task trough several Master and Postgraduate courses. Members of the Departments also belong to various advising committees and participate in dissemination tasks- such as articles, books, lectures, media interviews, etc.
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Publications on desertification: http://www.uv.es/fatwirepub/Satellite?pagename=ERI_CIDE%2FPage%2FTPGListat&cid=1285901367765&locale=en_GB&site=ERI_CIDE&p0=true&p1=Publicacio&p2=0&p4=&p5=&p3=1285897078778&p6=&p9=&p10=&p11=Any
Bib-Eron, bibliographic database on water erosion of the soil: http://www.uv.es/uvweb/desertification-research-centre/en/departments-/land-use-planning/products-1285895765448.html
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| | 11725 | Organizations working on slow onset events | SOE | Those in Africa; Those in Asia; Those in the Caribbean and Central America
| | | | CIAT is a lead center for the program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which helps smallholder farmers adapt to and mitigate the effects of rising temperatures and increasingly unpredictable rains. Alongside its research on agrobiodiversity, CIAT works in two other areas – soils and decision and policy analysis – which cut across all tropical crops and production environments. CIAT was formally established in 1967 and began its research in 1969.
CIAT has a global responsibility to the improvement of two staple foods, cassava and common bean, together with tropical forages for livestock. Representing diverse food groups and a key component of the world’s agricultural biodiversity, those crops are vital for global food and nutrition security.
| CIAT works with more than 500 national and international partner organizations in developing and industrialized countries.
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The centre has allowed the application of climate tools for specific climate sensitive sector risk reduction, environment management , and sustainable development, including integration of indigenous knowledge. It also assesses, detects and attributes climate change and associated impacts, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation options.
The centre works along with WMO, the National Meteorological and Hydrological institutions as well as regional and international centers for data and information exchange.
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In 1989, twenty four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa established a Drought Monitoring Centre in response to the devastating weather related disasters.
The centre is dedicated to maintain quality controlled databases and information systems required for risk/vulnerability assessment, mapping and general support to the national/ regional climate risk reduction strategies, as well as to provide timely climate early warning information and support specific sector applications for its member countries.
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The Centre has achieved successful networking with users of climate information and scientists which led to the establishement of a continuously updated data bank as well as an improved knowledge of the processes for seasonal forecasts. Overall the centre managed to enhance the regional capacity in climate information and risk reduction.
| | | Design of approaches, Stakeholder engagement | Africa | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Increasing temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Desertification | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of biodiversity, Increasing Temperatures, Land and forest degradation, Desertification | | | | Regional center/network/initiative | | | NWP |
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The Climate Information Platform (formerly known as the Climate Information Portal – CIP) has been developed by CSAG as platform for the delivery of climate information to end users. As such it attempts to go beyond previous efforts to provided climate data to end users by rather developing a synthesis of guidance text, visualisations and data downloads. Development of CIP has been largely funded through UNITAR C3D+.
CIP is a web interface that integrates two important information sources into one easy to use interface. The first important source is a climate database that stores and manages queries to a large suite of observational climate data as well as projections of future climate. The second important source of information is an extensive collection of guidance documentation that facilitates the best use of the climate data, it's interpretation and, importantly, resultant actions. The philosophy guiding CIP is that data is not information and as such only has value when well interpreted and correctly used or applied to appropriate problems
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CSAG is one of the leading climate research groups in Africa. They are uniquely positioned to target critical knowledge needs and contribute to a broad spectrum of climate change activities. In collaboration with stakeholders, CSAG develops research products to address stakeholder needs and support the broader research activities in other disciplines.
Its main objective is therefore to address the climate change knowledge needs of developing nations, delivering tailored information, building capacity within the continent, and engaging with users around adaptation, policy, and impacts.
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CSAG has developed a range of knowledge products that are made available to the broader communities. These are all distributed centrally through a CSAG-hosted, user focused, data portal along with support materials and analysis tools for users.
CSAG also has excellent national and international collaboration with formal links to a number of leading international research institutions and programmes.
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Climate Information Platform: http://cip.csag.uct.ac.za/webclient2/app/
| | | | | | | Increasing temperatures, Loss of biodiversity, Desertification, Land and forest degradation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Increasing Temperatures, Loss of biodiversity, Desertification, Land and forest degradation | | | | University/education/training organization | | http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/ | NWP |