TYPSA is a leading consulting engineering group providing solutions for transport and mobility, water, clean energy and green cities.
Disaster risk reduction
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Knowledge partnerCountry of registrationSpainRelation to CTCNNetwork MemberSector(s) of expertiseCross-sectoralRenewable energyInfrastructure and Urban planningEnergy efficiencyWaterHuman healthTransport
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This report synthesizes climate change governance issues in Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Case studies assessed vulnerabilities to climate change; climate change adaptation policies, plans and strategies, and their genesis and relation to the state of national knowledge on vulnerability; the institutional actors involved in climate change policy and responses; public awareness of climate change; and the role of state and non-state actors in international climate change negotiations.
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Knowledge partnerKnowledge partnerCountry of registrationFranceRelation to CTCNNetwork MemberKnowledge PartnerSector(s) of expertiseEarly warning and Environmental assessmentAgricultureCoastal zones
COROBOR Systems is a company that specializes in turnkey, integrated solutions for Meteorology and Hydrology.
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This working paper reports results from a literature review on ecosystem vulnerability to climate change undertaken within the CIFOR-led project AdaptEA, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. A total of 410 scientific publications were reviewed, with 183 studies examined in detail. Of those papers with clear geographic focus, most examined European or North American ecosystems, with only 18 studies focusing on Africa. Climatic and environmental drivers considered were temperature (52% of studies), precipitation (52%), carbon dioxide (15%) and rising sea level (11%).
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Knowledge partnerCountry of registrationAustriaRelation to CTCNNetwork MemberSector(s) of expertiseInfrastructure and Urban planningWaterHuman healthWaste managementAgriculture and forestryEarly warning and Environmental assessment
GWCC INTERIVAL ZT GmbH (GWCC) is a consulting company based in Vienna (part of the Austrian Consulting Group ROHRHOFER & Partner).
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Given the increased attention on resilience strengthening in international humanitarian and development work, there is a growing need to invest in its measurement and the overall accountability of âresilience strengtheningâ initiatives. The purpose of this article is to present our framework and tool for measuring community-level resilience to flooding and generating empirical evidence and to share our experience in the application of the resilience concept. At the time of writing the tool is being tested in 75 communities across eight countries.
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Climate change attribution analysis assesses the likelihood that a particular extreme weather event has been made more or less likely as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Communication of extreme event attribution information in the immediate aftermath of an extreme event provides a window of opportunity to inform, educate, and affect a change in attitude or behaviour in order to mitigate or prepare for climate change.
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Knowledge partnerKnowledge partnerCountry of registrationUnited KingdomRelation to CTCNNetwork MemberKnowledge PartnerSector(s) of expertiseAgriculture and forestryCoastal zonesEarly warning and Environmental assessmentWater
To encourage investment in climate adaptation projects, The Higher Ground Foundation created the Vulnerability Reduction Credit, or VRCTM an economic measure of the effects of projects in reducing climate change vulnerability.
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Building on the findings of the GeSI SMARTer2030 report, #SystemTransformation looks at how ICT will be instrumental in the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyzes the current SDGs implementation gaps, identifies the key features that make ICT a fundamental tool to achieve the Goals, and provides a deep-dive into those Goals where the ICT contribution can be most immediate and important.
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This guide is about taking account of, and managing, ecosystems to help people adapt to climate change in coastal areas: coastal Ecosystem based Adaptation (EBA). Vital to human wellbeing, adaptation to climate change is increasingly important in international policy discussions such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which have acknowledged the potential importance of EBA in meeting this challenge.