Embedding climate variability in hydropower design

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    Austria
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    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Water

    Pöyry Austria GmbH, a member of the global Pöyry Group, is a consulting and engineering company with deep expertise with extensive local knowledge to deliver sustainable project investments.

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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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    Spain
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    Agriculture
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Forestry
    Industry
    Transport

    BlacktoGreen provides companies and public bodies with cutting-edge services in energy, environment and sustainability to help them perform in a more efficient and sustainable manner.

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    Spain
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    Renewable energy
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Water

    Research and Technology Organization (RTO) transforming knowledge into GDP through technology development and transfer, with more than 1200 researchers providing solutions for buildings, infrastructures, industrial systems, transport, energy, climate and environment.

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    Argentina
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    Agriculture and forestry
    Coastal zones
    Renewable energy
    Transport
    Water
    Early warning and Environmental assessment

    INA is a decentralized technological scientific body whose objective is to satisfy the requirements of study, research, development and provision of specialized services in the field of water use and preservation. It depends on the Under Secretariat of Water Resources of the Nation.

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    The goal of this project is to reduce communities" vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, thus improving their well-being and protecting livelihoods. The project will promote mainstreaming or integrating vulnerability and adaptation to climate change into sustainable development plans and planning processes through pilot projects in Kenya, Mozambique and Rwanda. The objective of Rwanda"s pilot project is to improve management of hydropower potential.