Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: November 2025

The mission of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is to ensure every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every young person can reach their full potential. Operating in over 150 countries, UNFPA addresses the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women, girls, and vulnerable populations. UNFPA contributes to loss and damage responses by leveraging demographic data, strengthening health systems, building capacity, and empowering community-based solutions to prioritize gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights of those most affected by climate change

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

The United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) focuses on generating knowledge for a sustainable world by uniting science, policy, and practice, emphasizing human and environmental security. This includes providing research and expertise on climate-related loss and damage. UNU-EHS also contributes to capacity building and international cooperation on climate change.

Organization

Region: Africa

Joining Date: May 2026

The University of Namibia (UNAM) is Namibia’s leading institution of higher learning, with a mandate to undertake research, disseminate knowledge and provide extension services to society. UNAM works to advance higher education, training, research and innovation in support of Namibia’s social and economic development. Its activities include climate change research and efforts to address the impacts of climate change on Namibian society. The institution also fosters partnerships with national and international institutions, contributing to knowledge exchange, capacity development and innovation across sectors.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: February 2026

UNOOSA is committed to leveraging space‑based technologies to support developing countries in averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with climate change. As the Secretariat of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and the implementing office for the United Nations Platform for Space‑based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN‑SPIDER), UNOOSA coordinates international cooperation and builds the capacity of vulnerable countries to use satellite data for disaster risk reduction and climate resilience.

Body

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

UNOSAT provides satellite analysis, training, and geospatial capacity development to support disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response, and sustainable development. Operational since 2001 as the United Nations Satellite Centre of UNITAR, it delivers actionable data to UN agencies and Member States during emergencies through rapid mapping and decision-support services.

Expert

Region: Asia

Joining Date: May 2026

Vasiti Soko is a climate and disaster risk expert with experience in developing risk information systems, loss and damage frameworks, and GIS-based tools for Small Island Developing States. She has led multidisciplinary teams and worked with United Nations agencies, development partners and governments. Her work focuses on data integration, sectoral risk analysis, and embedding gender and inclusion into climate resilience. She is the founder of ViPACT Consulting and brings expertise in applying risk information and geospatial tools to support evidence-based planning, resilience building and disaster risk management.

Organization

Region: Africa

Joining Date: June 2026

VetNOW is a digital animal health technology company that strengthens livestock resilience in climate-vulnerable communities through telehealth and digital veterinary services. The organization provides expertise in livestock health, climate risk management, disease surveillance, digital health records, early warning, disaster risk reduction and climate-related loss and damage. By connecting farmers, veterinarians and veterinary paraprofessionals through a mobile platform, VetNOW supports early disease detection, climate-resilient livestock management, capacity-building and evidence generation for climate risk management and loss and damage assessments.

Organization

Region: Africa

Joining Date: June 2026

Water Partnership Rwanda is a Rwanda-based Community Benefit Company that promotes the water-energy-food nexus and climate resilience through applied research, innovative technologies and capacity development. Its work focuses on water and climate change, youth engagement for sustainable water management, climate adaptation planning, climate finance, loss and damage assessment, climate information systems and resilience-building. The organization supports sustainable development by strengthening knowledge, partnerships and practical solutions for climate-resilient water and resource management in Rwanda.

Organization

Region: Asia

Joining Date: May 2026

WaterSprint Limited is a consultancy focused on water resource management, climate resilience, and environmental sustainability. The organization provides technical advisory services related to watershed management, flood risk reduction, climate adaptation planning, and integrated water resources management. WaterSprint supports governments and partners in strengthening water governance systems and enhancing resilience to hydrological and climate-related risks.

Expert

Region: Global, Oceania

Joining Date: November 2025

William Carter has 15 years international experience working for communities vulnerable to climate change and armed conflict - especially those facing displacement and relocation. His work integrates emergency response with resilience planning & programming, leveraging partnerships to expand impact. He helps initiate & deliver large-scale localized support contributing to climate resilient development solutions - especially for people affected by Sea Level Rise or in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States. He holds MSc in Development and an Executive MBA. He is based in Fiji with his family.

Expert

Region: Global, Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: June 2026

Wilson Lechón is a climate policy and loss and damage expert with experience in climate governance, climate finance and environmental management. His work focuses on economic and non-economic loss and damage, adaptation policy, biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate transparency and resilience. As an IPCC Seventh Assessment Report Lead Author and former Director of Environment at CONGOPE, he has supported climate policy development, subnational governance, climate finance and participatory processes with governments and Indigenous communities.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: November 2025

The World Bank focuses on fostering inclusive and sustainable development, with a goal of creating a livable planet and strengthening economies to raise living standards. Within the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) serves as a key partnership mechanism that brings together donors and partners to help low- and middle-income countries understand, manage, and reduce their risks from natural hazards and climate change. Through GFDRR and other resilience programs, the Bank assists governments in integrating disaster risk management and climate adaptation into national development plans, developing financial protection strategies, and improving preparedness and recovery systems.