World Agroforestry Centre Activities

Steering agroforestry from capacity-building and knowledge exchange through to implementation at national and community levels.

Example projects

• Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB)
• Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES)
• West Africa Dry Lands Management
• African Highlands Initiative

Small Island Developing States Network
(SIDSNet)

Sharing of best practice and expertise.

Reports

National and Regional Assessment Reports of the Small Island Developing States

Science and Policy Interfaces for Disaster Reduction
(SPIDER Network)

Exploring the interface between physical and social science approaches to managing disaster risk and uncertainty by forging interdisciplinary collaborative partnerships.

Example publication
Making Maps to Reduce Vulnerability: does it really work?

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Activities
(UNCCD)

Combatting desertification through regional and national action programs.

Example events
CRIC7 on Climate and Land

Presentation
How Land can make a difference (to climate)

weADAPT Collaborating group on climate adaptation

Engaging adaptation professionals into developing a common knowledge base for adaptation.

World Wildlife Fund International Activities
(WWF)

Developing and implementing resistance projects with stakeholder groups, including local communities, national, regional and local government agencies, WWF national organisations and other local conservation and research groups (universities, climate institutes, ecologists, conservation biologists, hydrologists and others).

Example publications

• Defending nature against climate change
• BUYING TIME - User manual for resistance and resilience building

Case Studies and Publications

• Water for life: Lessons for climate change adaptation from better management of rivers for people and nature, Overview
• Water for life: Lessons for climate change adaptation from better management of rivers for people and nature, Part 1
• Water for life: Lessons for climate change adaptation from better management of rivers for people and nature, Part 2

Iberoamerican Network of Climate Change Bureaus
(RIOCC)

Contributing a regional cooperative structure to the Nairobi Work Programme, as well as adressing needs in the following NWP areas of work: Methods and Tools; Data and Observations; Climate modelling, scenarios and downscaling; Climate related risks and extreme events; Adaptation planning and practices.

Contributions to the UNFCCC
Action Pledges

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Activities
(ECLAC)

Developing approaches to evaluate the economic and social impacts of climate change, complemented with the analysis of its environmental impacts. Facilitating the assessment of the overall consequences of climate change for sustainable development, particularly from a regional perspective. Facilitating regional dialogues to promote greater awareness and innovative development policy options to respond to the climate change challenges, including ensuring appropriate financing sources in a manner consistent with a low-carbon, energy-efficient future.

Global Climate Change Alliance

Provides a dialogue platform for the EU and developing countries on climate change. Initiates cooperative actions for the implementation of adaptation and mitigation objectives into development policies.

Publications

• The EU and developing countries working together
• Using Innovative and Effective Approaches to Deliver Climate Change Support to Developing Countries
  

URAdapt - Managing Water in the Rural–Urban Interface: the key to climate change resilient cities

Develops hydrological scenarios, including impacts on planning and under changing conditions to advise decision-making. Engages stakeholders to exchange knowledge on climate-resilient cities.   

Publication:
Looking upstream and down: Addressing climate change impacts in Accra and Addis Ababa
 

Modernization Program of the National Meteorological Service (MoMet) (SMN)

The World Bank-funded programme has been based on an institutional diagnosis and proposed strategic plan for the national meteorological service carried out by the WMO aimed at modernization over a 6-year period.

• World Bank Project Data

Rainfed Infrastructure Program K132, with Hydrological-Environmental Watershed Restoration and Water Management and Soil Preservation (CONAGUA)

Series of infrastructure measures as adaptation to high-intensity hydro-meteorological phenomena expected to occur with greater frequency in the basins of Mexico’s humid tropics. 

Statistical Regionalization of CMIP5 models for Mexico

Obtains projections for temperature and precipitation change through implementation of a method known as Reliability Ensemble Averaging and inclusion of the range of uncertainty in the new models of the IPCC.

Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change Adaptation
(ACCCA Project)

Drawing on lessons learned on communicating climate risk information to decision-makers. Informing effective decision-making on reducing vulnerability through a series of pilot projects funded through the project.

Outputs
Pilot Actions Database

African Development Bank Activities
(AFDB)

Designing climate risk and adaptation interventions, funding and co-funding adaptation projects, and conducting in-house training and awareness raising. Joint coordination (with AUC, GCOS and ECA) of the Action Plan for Africa on Climate Information for Development Needs.

Example Projects
Malawi Climate Adaptation for Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture

Strategies
Climate Information for Development Needs: An Action Plan for Africa (ClimDev Africa)
See also GCOS ClimDev Africa webpage

Asian Development Bank Project search
(ADB)

Technical advice, knowledge and funding for environmentally sustainable growth, in particular in building resilience to natural hazards amongst the region's poor.

Publications

• Environment
• Risk Management
  
  

Inter-American Development Bank Activities
(IDB)

Financing, leverage, policy advice, research, and technical assistance to carry out development projects in 26 countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. New multidonor trust fund to finance technical assistance and grant investments for disaster prevention and risk management in its borrowing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean

Example publications
Developing and Supporting the Use of Disaster-Linked Financial Instruments: The Role of the IDB in Latin America and the Caribbean

Projects
Project Gateway

Government of Latvia Activities

Financing environmental protection investments, integrating adaptation into health, agriculture and national security conceptions, at all government levels including local. Hyrdological and metereological information and assessment.

Funding

• Latvian Environmental Protection Fund
• Latvian Environmental Investment Fund
• Protection and Management of Coastal Habitats in Latvia
• Risk Management Conception in Agriculture

United Nations University and Government of Japan, Global Environment Information Centre Funding Database for Asia-Pacific

Funding opportunities in Asia-Pacific region.

World Bank's Project Portfolio

Database on World Bank lending projects since 1947, including adaptation.

Rockefeller Foundation Activities

Creating robust action models of climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people; Funding, promoting, and disseminating those models; Increasing pressure on funders, practitioners, and policy-makers to support increased funding and action for climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people.

Projects

• Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network
• Strengthening Food Security: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) 

Global Environment Facility Project Database
(GEF)

Database of projects financed by GEF in different areas, including adaptation.

Studies on funding for water-based climate change mitigation and adaptation

The two studies  provide technical assistance, capacity development and technology transfer to strengthen and consolidate actions implemented within the framework of the Mexican water sector’s planning and funding to favour the development of the water sector. Develop actions diagnosis and improvement of the Water Financing System and identify sources of funding.

National Implementing Entity of the Climate Change Adaptation Fund in Mexico (ENI Mexico)

A mechanism to finance concrete climate change adaptation projects and programs in vulnerable areas.

• National Implementing Entity of the Climate Change Adaptation Fund in Mexico

Water Funds (FEMSA Foundation; TNC; Inter-American Development Bank)

Innovative mechanism of large-scale conservation based on the payment for environmental services in which the investments of downstream users are used to preserve water source with the aim to create and capitalize at least 32 funds in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

• FEMSA Foundation 2011 Annual Report
• Investing in water funds