Organization

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: July 2026

Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) is a regional research and higher education centre that promotes sustainable and inclusive development across Latin America and the Caribbean through education, applied research and technical cooperation. The organisation provides expertise in climate risk and vulnerability assessment, ecosystem-based adaptation, nature-based solutions, sustainable agriculture, landscape restoration, watershed management, climate services, early warning systems and institutional capacity-building. Through its multidisciplinary Climate Action Unit, CATIE supports governments and communities in strengthening climate resilience, restoring ecosystems and integrating climate risk into planning and decision-making.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: January 2025

CIMA Research Foundation's mission is to enhance the capacity of organizations, communities, and ecosystems to address to the adverse impacts of climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss. To achieve this CIMA integrates scientific research, technical assistance, and practical strategies with a strong focus on capacity development, ensuring that technical assistance is tailored to stakeholder’s unique needs and contexts. 

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: July 2026

Citepa is a French non-profit technical organisation specialising in climate and air-related data, policy and reporting. Its Adaptation and Resilience Unit supports governments in climate risk assessment, adaptation planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and transparency under the Paris Agreement. Citepa develops indicators, methodologies and digital systems that help countries monitor climate impacts, evaluate adaptation progress and strengthen evidence-based decision-making on economic and non-economic loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Asia, Oceania

Joining Date: June 2026

ClimateABILITY Pty Ltd is an Australia-based climate change, resilience and climate finance consultancy working across the Pacific and Asia-Pacific. The firm supports governments and partners with climate risk and vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, resilience investment, institutional strengthening, early warning systems, forecast-based financing, monitoring and evaluation, and climate finance proposal development. Led by Amanda Amjadali, ClimateABILITY provides practical, implementation-oriented support to help countries translate climate risks and impacts into actionable programmes, investment plans and financing pathways relevant to averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2025

Climate Adaptation Works’ mission is to help vulnerable communities quantify climate risks and value solutions. Their tools and experience—from adaptation metrics (AMME) to community-led L&D evaluations—aim to provide technical assistance that is demand-driven and grounded in local realities. Climate Adaptation Works contributes to clarifying metrics, boundaries, and investment strategies that address loss and damage effectively.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. They connect science and policy to empower vulnerable countries in international climate negotiations and inform national planning with targeted research, analysis and support. Their international team of 130 experts and support staff work from their headquarters in Berlin and their regional offices in Africa, Australia and the Pacific, the Caribbean, North America and South Asia.

Network

Region: Global

Joining Date: June 2026

The Climate Learning and Impact Collective (CLIC) is a global network of senior climate practitioners providing strategic advisory, technical assistance and learning services to governments, climate funds, development partners and philanthropic organisations. Its members bring expertise in climate resilience, adaptation, loss and damage, climate finance, governance, monitoring, evaluation and learning, institutional strengthening and policy development. Through collaborative, demand-driven support, CLIC helps countries design, finance and implement effective climate action while strengthening institutional capacity and promoting learning across diverse contexts.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2026

ClimFin is a climate finance advisory firm specialized in translating climate-related losses and damages into financeable responses. ClimFin supports governments, Accredited Entities, and partners to design and structure adaptation, resilience, and climate impact response projects. Drawing on deep institutional knowledge of GCF systems and hands-on project development experience, ClimFin provides technical assistance, capacity building, and advisory services that strengthen countries’ ability to integrate loss and damage considerations into existing climate strategies and investment pipelines. 

Organization

Region: Asia

Joining Date: June 2026

Community Development Foundation is a Pakistan-based humanitarian and development organization working across climate-vulnerable districts of Sindh and Balochistan. Its work focuses on disaster risk reduction, anticipatory action, early warning, humanitarian response, WASH, livelihoods recovery and institutional capacity building. CDF supports communities and local authorities to prepare for and respond to floods, droughts and extreme heat through risk assessments, contingency planning, anticipatory cash, community-based disaster management and inclusive recovery measures.

Body

Region: Global

Joining Date: May 2025

The Climate Risk Early Warning Systems initiative (CREWS) Initiative responds to demands for technical assistance by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on early warning systems through its three operational partners, the World Bank, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). 

Expert

Region: Africa

Joining Date: June 2025

Cyril Effiong brings expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data analysis, climate modeling, and risk assessment. He holds a PhD focused on non-economic loss and damage in flood-prone communities along the Lower Niger River basin in Nigeria. His work addresses climate-induced impacts, vulnerability mapping, and locally tailored adaptation strategies. He has published on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and has translated data and research into actionable insights for policy and planning purposes.

Expert

Region: Global, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Europe, Asia

Joining Date: May 2026

Daniela Paredes Grijalva is an expert on climate justice, environmental mobilities, and climate-related loss and damage, with regional expertise in the Americas, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Her work focuses on displacement, planned relocation, non-economic loss and damage, and the social and cultural dimensions of climate impacts. She has interdisciplinary experience working on climate change, environmental governance, and participatory approaches that integrate local and Indigenous knowledge into adaptation and policy processes. Daniela is particularly interested in supporting equitable and community-informed responses to climate-related displacement and socio-ecological transformation.