Networking & Collaboration
Technologies are vital to building climate-resilient, low-carbon societies. Many essential technologies already exist — the challenge is to get them deployed where they are needed, and to build the enabling environments to support technology innovation, adaptation and scale-up. An overwhelming number of developing countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement indicate a requirement for technology support and capacity building in order to achieve their commitments. To meet this need, the CTCN serves as a demand-driven and trusted partner, matching the needs of developing countries for climate change-related equipment, methods, capacity development, and policy advice with the world-class expertise of its Network and our collaborators.
FUNDACIÓN PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN DEL CLIMA
In a context very different from the current one, the technical team of the Foundation for Climate Research (FIC) began its research in 1992 with the intention of producing knowledge about the behavior of the climate and its possible evolution affected by the hand of human beings. The vocation from the beginning was to find results applicable to the resolution of specific problems.
Among those first works, it can be highlighted that the FIC originally developed the first future climate simulations generated in Spain to support decision-making regarding biodiversity and forests. The immediate objective of these simulations was to answer the question: Which species would be most adapted to each point of the territory, taking into account the most probable climate trends at a local scale?
In 1995 and as a non-profit association, the base of the Foundation was established, continuing in a more stable way with the same scientific and applied activities that had been developed, and with their dissemination in society. In 1997, the first future climate scenarios were generated, simulating a change in climate throughout the 21st century similar to that offered by current simulations.
It was in 1999 when the FIC was finally established as an autonomous non-profit entity. Formed as a foundation, the organization was able to choose to develop larger projects financed by the European Union, thus giving greater impact to its research and opening new horizons for the entity. This allowed it to expand its range and its climatic applications, developing its own methodology for statistical regionalization of climatic scenarios.
Once its ability to simulate the future climate in a scientific and robust manner has been consolidated, in the last two decades the FIC has also focused on promoting the use of these projections in adaptation projects in various fields, always seeking collaboration with leading experts in these sectors. Throughout the 21st century, the Foundation has gradually grown, both in the number of projects carried out satisfactorily and in scientific literature, progressively hosting a greater number of scientists and technicians. Thus, it has been possible to establish a large multidisciplinary team capable of successfully carrying out any project or consulting work related to climate.
