- Collaboratively developing multi-stakeholder dialogues between research, policy and practice that enable exchange of knowledge, interpretation and synthesis, and that identify strategies and actions for building demand-driven knowledge systems.
- Expanding the scope and availability of training opportunities to more effectively engage scientists and other professionals in the development and application of innovative communication tools, methods and approaches targeted at a wide range of decision makers.
- Seeking out new partnerships with other organizations that are active at the interface of communication, development and global environmental change in order to enhance opportunities for innovative communication that reach a broad range of stakeholders.
- Promoting opportunities to consolidate and synthesize climate information that resides in the grey literature.
Coastal Cities at Risk
The overall objective of the Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR): Building Adaptive Capacity for Managing Climate Change in Coastal Megacities Program is to develop the knowledge base and enhance the capacity of mega-cities to successfully adapt to and when necessary cope with risks posed by the effects of climate change, including sea level rise, in the context of urban growth and development.
African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP)
The African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP) enables African practitioners, researchers, educators and graduate students to undertake activities that enhance their capacities for advancing and applying knowledge for climate change adaptation in Africa. The program is currently supporting its third …
Biodiversity Conservation under a Changing Climate
University level multidisciplinary programs that facilitate learning about climate change challenges to biodiversity and ecosystem services are relatively scarce in the Albertine Rift region of Africa – a biodiversity hotspot that is increasingly under threat from natural and human-induced drivers …
Cities at Risk
Much of Asia’s rapid population and economic growth is occurring in large coastal cities that are at high risk from sea level rise and climate change. Asia’s densely populated deltas and mega-deltas and other low-lying coastal urban areas are among …
CORDEX Africa
The CORDEX Africa program brings together African climate and meteorology scientists with African scientists involved in vulnerability, impacts and adaptation (VIA) research to interpret raw downscaled data for information on how climate processes over the continent may change, and to …
Integrating Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation into Development Planning (CCMAP)
Integrating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation into Development Planning (CCMAP) project Funded by the European Commission with co-support from UNEP and USAID In partnership with WMO, IPCC, UNEP, University of Dar es Salaam, University of Ghana, and the Bangladesh Centre …
Research Partnership Enhancement Awards for African Scientists
The Research Partnership Enhancement Awards are being offered as a way to enhance collaborative US/Africa projects for research, training, joint scientific publications and the development of communication products.
Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA)
The Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA) project developed risk communication methods and tools capable of supporting stakeholder decision-making about climate change and related risks in 17 countries in Africa and Asia.
Building Long-Term Capacity for Managing & Adapting to CC in Africa-Asia
Building Long Term Capacity for Managing and Adapting to Climate Change in Africa and Asia is a program that aims to enhance capacity in selected less developed countries across Africa, South and Southeast Asia to better understand and manage risks associated with global change, particularly climate change and variability.
Industrial Transformation in Asia
The IT/Asia project was implemented with the primary objective of engaging a network of Asian researchers and institutions, and other international partners in examining key issues of industrial transformation.