Watershed conservation

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    United Kingdom
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    Agriculture
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency

    Practical Action Consulting (PAC) is the consulting arm of Practical Action, an international non-governmental organisation that uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries.

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    France
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    Agriculture
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Renewable energy
    Forestry
    Marine and Fisheries
    Water

    IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Research Institute for Development) - is a research organization based in France that is working with its partners in the South to address international development issues.

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    Panama
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    Coastal zones
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Water

    The Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC), established in 1992, is an international, intergovermental and autonomous organization with the purpose to promote sustainable development through applied scientific research and development; education and techn

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    Brazil
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    Coastal zones
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Forestry
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Transport
    Waste management
    Water

    Fundação Brasileira para o DesenvolvimentobSustentável (FBDS) is a not for-profit organization differentiated by its network with the scientific community, international finance agencies and national corporations.

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    Dominican Republic
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    Sector(s) of expertise
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Human health
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Water

    Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral (IDDI) works towards poverty reduction and promotion of socio-economic and environmental development. Its vision of sustainable development focuses on climate change.

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    Spain
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    Sector(s) of expertise
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Coastal zones
    Water
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Agriculture and forestry

    GlobalCAD is formed by a group of international experts specialized in fields related to human and sustainable development.

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    Germany
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    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.

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    Glacier-dominated mountains play a major role in providing water to large numbers of people. These glacier-dominated areas also pose unique challenges to downstream communities as they adapt to recent and continuing global climate change. Two of the more serious problems in high mountain regions include decreased water supply reliability and increased threats from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), or moraine-dammed lakes left behind receding glaciers that can cause enormous downstream devastation if suddenly released by triggers such as an earthquake or overhanging ice.