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Institutions and Organizations
NaturePeopleFuture.org: TNC’s Knowledge Base for Climate Change Adaptation
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SEEK * EXPLORE * SHARE * THINK * ADJUST * ACT * IMPACT
The Nature Conservancy is working to develop climate change adaptation strategies that work in real places. These strategies help sustain communities as they cope with accelerating changes to water, air, food, lands and livelihoods. The NaturePeopleFuture.org site supports the growing Community of Practice.
International Center for Climate Change Governance (ICCG)
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The “International Center for Climate Governance” (ICCG) is a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (FGC), which focuses its research activities on the design of climate policy and related governing institutions.
The ICCG promotes initiatives at the sectoral, regional, national, and international level designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and to facilitate the adaptation of economic and environmental systems, particularly in developing countries, to the changing climate patterns.
[ICCG](http://www.iccgov.org/i
World Health Organisation (WHO)
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WHO supports member states in protecting public health from the impacts of climate change, and provides the health-sector voice within the overall UN response to this global challenge.
European Commission (EC)
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The role of the European Commission will be to support and complement many of the adaptation measures will need to be carried out nationally or regionally through an integrated and coordinated approach, particularly in cross-border issues and policies which are highly integrated at EU level.
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
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ADPC’s Climate Risk Management Team aims to enhance capacities of communities and countries to manage climate risks at all time scales through the following distinct but inter-connected activities ADPC and Climate Change Adaptation
Action Aid
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ActionAid is working with some of the poorest communities around the world to help them cope with the effects of a changing climate through disaster risk reduction.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) work on adaptation to climate change focuses on three main areas:Economic Aspects of Adaptation; Mainstreaming adaptation in development co-operation; and Adaptation in developed country contexts.
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
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The mission of the UNITAR Climate Change Programme (CCP) is to enhance the capacity of government and civil society representatives in the developing world to assist developing countries improve their participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and their adaptation process. UNITAR and Climate Change Adaptation
World Food Programme (WFP)
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WFP is on the front lines of climate change. For WFP, climate change is not a theoretical debate--not something we are studying to avoid and to mitigate for the future. Adaptation to climate change is not a choice, but a reality for us as the world’s largest humanitarian organization on the front lines of hunger.
International Labour Organisation ( ILO)
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The ILO actively participates in the UNFCCC process and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Taking part in the climate UNFCCC negotiations the ILO aims to support coherent policies which buffer the negative impacts of climate change on the labour market and creating opportunities for decent and green jobs and which sustain government, employers and workers in the transition to adapt and to prevent dangerous climate change.
