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Collaborating Programs and Projects
PREPARED Enabling Change
Description:
Focuses on preparing water utilities for climate change, the European Commission is funding the Collaborative project PREPARED Enabling Change. The PREPARED project originates from the Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform thematic working group Sustainable Water Management in Urban areas. The project consists of ten cities/utilities in Europe, Australia and the US.
For more information: PREPARED Enabling Change
Meister Consultants Group, Inc.
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Meister Consultants Group, Inc. (MCG) is an international consulting firm founded on the principle that global best practices can inform even the most localized decisions. By leveraging their international network of more than 100 consultants, MCG is helping people anticipate and adapt to the shifting global landscape.
MCG specializes in alternative energy, environmental sustainability, international dialogue, and corporate responsibility.
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UNREDD)
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REDD - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries - is an effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development. UN-REDD
CLIMsystems
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CLIMsystems Ltd is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art climate change risk and adaptation assessment tools and services for a wide range of clients.
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a factor to be considered across sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, water resources, conservation, biodiversity and disaster risk management. CLIMsystems wishes to put the knowledge, capability and climate proofing capacity in your hands for conducting climate change risk and adaptation assessments.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) CLIMTRAIN Project
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The CLIMTRAIN project is a climate change tailor-made training programme for IFAD’s Programme Management Department was approved in the context of the Innovation Mainstreaming Initiative (IMI). The main goal of the CLIMTRAIN project is to support directly IFAD’s Programme Management Department (PMD) in building its capacity both in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
National Capacity Self-Assessments (NCSAs)
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The National Capacity Self-Assessments (NCSAs) were a set of consultative and analytical activities undertaken by countries to determine the root causes underlying their challenges to conserve biological diversity, manage land resources sustainably, and to adapt to and mitigate against the impacts of climate change.
For more information: NCSAs
National Communications Support Programme (NCSP)
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The National Communications Support Programme (NCSP) is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and is jointly managed by UNDP and UNEP. The primary objective of the NCSP is to provide technical and policy support to Parties not included in Annex I (NAI) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for preparing their Second (or Third) National Communications (SNCs or TNCs). The NCSP is hosted by UNDP-GEF in UNDP headquarters, New York.
UNDP Climate Community (UNDPCC)
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The UNDP Environment & Energy Group launched a $7 million global project, Capacity Development for Policy Makers to Address Climate Change, in May 2008 to run in parallel with the "Bali Road Map" - the UNFCCC 2008/9 negotiations on long-term co-operative action on climate change.
MDG Achievement Fund (MDGIF)
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In the disaster prone eastern seaboard of the Philippines municipal governments, academia and local citizens are working together to come up with strategies that reduce the risks associated with climate change, particularly as they affect poor and vulnerable communities. Over 40 local institutions in six pilot areas are involved in strengthening coping mechanisms and mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning.
CC DARE: Climate Change and Development - Adapting by Reducing Vulnerability
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A joint UNDP-UNEP programme promoting adaptation and reducing vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa, CC DARE provides demand-driven, flexible and rapid financial and technical support to 15 Sub-Saharan countries. The support is made available to improve the ability of sub-Saharan African countries to remove barriers and create opportunities for integrating climate change adaptation into national development planning and decision-making frameworks.
