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National Adaptation Plan

  • Design of a knowledge management system for tropical forests management and ecosystem services

    CTCN
    Date of submission
    Phase
    Completed
    Countries
    Costa Rica
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Mitigation
    Sectors
    Agriculture and forestry
    Cross-sectoral enabler
    Communication and awareness
    Governance and planning
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction
    Ecosystems and biodiversity

    Context

    In Costa Rica, the role of forests in climate change adaptation and mitigation is widely acknowledged and various political and financial mechanisms have been developed to support ecosystems in facilitating adaptation processes and act as carbon sinks that directly contribute to mitigation. However, there is a lack of instruments to facilitate access to information for improving the decision-making process for climate change adaptation and mitigation when it comes to the management of forests and associated ecosystem services.

  • ECO Consult Sepp & Busacker Partnerschaft

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    Knowledge partner
    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Germany
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Knowledge Partner
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture
    Agriculture and forestry
    Renewable energy
    Forestry
    Infrastructure and Urban planning

    ECO Consult Sepp & Busacker Partnerschaft was founded in the year of the UN Rio Summit in 1992. ECO, offers integrated advisory services for developing countries and countries in transition.

  • CASES Database and Adaptation Library

    Publication date
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Sectors
    Renewable energy
    Agriculture and forestry

    The CASES (Climate Adaptation caSE Studies) databaseÍwas created to support climate change adaptation efforts at the state, regional, and local level. CASES is a user-driven, searchable database that provides basic information on state and local level adaptation planning efforts. Users can search the database by any other combination of search options. UsersÍare also encouraged to submit case studies to the database. The CASES Adaptation Library was created to provide more general information on planning for climate change.

  • Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Italy
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture and forestry
    Coastal zones
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Water

    Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti (CMCC) mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society to provide reliable, rigorous and timely scientific results which will in turn stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop scie

  • Le Groupe-conseil baastel

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Canada
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture and forestry
    Renewable energy
    Forestry
    Human health
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Transport
    Water

    Founded in 1989, Le Groupe-conseil baastel (BAASTEL) has the mission of contributing to sustainable development. Baastel aims to strengthen the coherence of development issues for a multitude of actors and to improve the effectiveness of development aid in general.

  • Taiwan Research Institute

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    China
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture and forestry
    Carbon fixation and abatement
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Industry
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Transport
    Water

    Taiwan Research Institute (TRI) was established in 1994 by a group of leading members of the business community in Taiwan. TRI dedicates itself to the general public as a non-partisan specialized think tank.

  • LTS International

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    United Kingdom
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture
    Agriculture and forestry
    Carbon fixation and abatement
    Coastal zones
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Transport
    Waste management
    Water

    LTS is an international company with more than 40 years of experience that provides professional consultancy and project management services to support sustainable development in the public and private sectors across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, principally across developing nations.

  • Gesellschaft für Organisation, Planung und Ausbildung mbH

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Germany
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Water
    Coastal zones
    Marine and Fisheries
    Agriculture
    Agriculture and forestry
    Industry
    Forestry

    GOPA Consultants is a private consulting company with over 50 years of experience in designing and implementing technical assistance projects for national and international donors.

  • The Higher Ground Foundation

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    Knowledge partner
    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    United Kingdom
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Knowledge Partner
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture and forestry
    Coastal zones
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Water

    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.