Networks & Partners

As of 2016, EcoAdapt is GAN’s Regional Partner for the North American region. A thriving climate adaptation organisation, EcoAdapt was a nominee for the 1st national Climate Adaptation Leadership Award for Natural Resources. The group co-founded the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE), which builds innovative communities of practice for adaptation. The Project Manager of CAKE, Jessica Hitt, is also a member of GAN’s Steering Committee. As stated on its website, EcoAdapt “helps users to get beyond the limitation of their time and unwieldy thicket of books, papers and articles by vetting and clearly organising the best information available.”

The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) serves as a knowledge platform to equip adaptation practitioners in the region with the information, knowledge, and tools to design, implement and monitor climate change adaptation measures, foster access to technologies and finance, and capacity-building for integrating climate change adaptation into national development policies, strategies, and plans. With support from the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan, APAN was developed and launched by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in 2009 under the Global Adaptation Network (GAN). APAN has established close partnerships with key organizations and has become an important adaptation knowledge mobilizer in Asia and the Pacific Region. Visit the website

REGATTA incorporates 13 regional partners and more than 4,000 users in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) regions, enabling the exchange of crucial information for CCA. By way of REGATTA’s work, vulnerability assessments have been carried out in more than 15 LAC countries, serving as prototypes for the design of large-scale adaptation strategies elsewhere. Through collaboration with local communities, 6 pilot projects were implemented to highlight the benefits of Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. The online knowledge platform built by REGATTA has unquestionably gifted LAC countries a stronger capacity for low-carbon development strategies. One of such examples includes the Development of the Regional Light Efficiency Strategy in Central America, where REGATTA has accelerated the market transformation to sustainable lighting technologies. 

EBAFOSA is the first every inclusive pan-African framework and platform, an institution with protocols – a constitution and rules of procedure adopted in an inclusive  continental process guiding its actions, that provides a platform for all stakeholders in a country - from governments and their agencies, the public sector, private   sector, educational and research institutions, individual publics/citizens, CBOs, international intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, CSOs etc. to collaborate in a  participatory way in developing and implementing policy solutions to upscale EBA-driven agriculture and its value chains toward ensuring sustainable inclusive growth in Africa. 

Being an arid and semi-arid region, West Asia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Water, agriculture, land, coastal areas and biodiversity are some of the most affected sectors. The West-Asia Regional Network on Climate Change (WARN-CC) was established in 2010 to help build institutional and human resource capacities in the region to address the challenges of climate change. It aims to enhance capacities to integrate climate change into national development and to formulate and implement national climate change programmes, through mobilizing knowledge, technology and resources.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the leading agency for environmental standards and regulations in the US. In collaboration with GAN, the EPA helped launch a series of adaptation learning exchanges, connecting experts and practitioners in different regions to share effective and innovative adaptation techniques. The EPA has also been helping GAN to work closely with the EPIC Network (Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Cities), a comprehensive program that matches university courses with real-world problems in their local cities. EPIC’s city-university partnerships provide students with invaluable experiences while helping urban areas solve their environmental challenges with minimal costs.

GAN is working with the Educational Partnerships for Innovation In Communities (EPIC) Network to extend the successful model they developed in the United States to other parts of the world. The EPIC Framework is a sustainable and innovative way to harness university resources to address resilience and climate adaptation at the city scale. The Chronicle of Higher Education called the model “one of higher education’s most successful and comprehensive service-learning programs.” In 2016, GAN began working with the EPIC network and other partners to extend the model around the world. By the end of 2017, a successful EPIC-Africa network had been launched with several city-university partnerships established. Plans are underway for training events in other regions and the establishment of other regional members of the EPIC network.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by the U.S. Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense..." NSF is vital because it supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future. It is tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology

Founded in 1990 as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiative, Local Governments for Sustainability is a leading global network of 1,500+ cities, town and regions committed to building a sustainable future. Through its work, more than 25% of the global urban population are impacted. Local Governments for Sustainability is “calling on local and regional governments worldwide to set mid-century climate neutrality targets.”

Friends of EbA (FEBA) is an IUCN-hosted global collaborative network of 80+ agencies and organisations involved in Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) working jointly to share experiences and knowledge, to improve the implementation of EbA related activities on the ground, and to have a stronger and more strategic learning and policy influence on EbA.

START was founded in 1992 to strengthen capacities for global environmental change science in Africa and Asia that addresses critical sustainability challenges. Our programs and partnerships provide opportunities for training, research, education and networking that strengthen scientific skills and inspire leadership. The main focus of our work concerns climate change and extremes in the context of disaster risk reduction, land-use and land-cover change, natural resources and ecosystems, water and food security, and urban development.

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) was established in March 1998 under an initiative of the Japanese government and with the support of Kanagawa Prefecture based on the “Charter for the Establishment of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies”. The aim of the Institute is to achieve a new paradigm for civilization and conduct innovative policy development and strategic research for environmental measures, reflecting the results of research into political decisions for realising sustainable development both in the Asia-Pacific region and globally. IGES made the transition to a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation in April 2012.

The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.

The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) is one of the leading research and capacity building organisations working on climate change and development in Bangladesh. ICCCAD’s aim is to develop a world-class institution that is closely related to local experience, knowledge and research in one of the countries that is most affected by climate change. It is our mission to gain and distribute knowledge on climate change and, specifically, adaptation and thereby helping people to adapt to climate change with a focus on the global south. By focusing on such work in Bangladesh, ICCCAD allows international participants to gain direct knowledge of the issues in a real-world context. Through the expertise of ICCCAD and its local partners, international organisations will be exposed to relevant and grounded knowledge that can be shared and transmitted around the world for the benefit of other LDCs, and their governments, donors and international NGOs.

AP-PLAT is a web-based information platform for national and local policymakers, researchers, businesses, and individuals seeking practical, up-to-date information on climate change adaptation and relevant science. AP-PLAT was launched on June 16th, 2019, at the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Japan. The goal of AP-PLAT is to contribute to the sustainability and resilience of the Asia-Pacific region by informing decisions and supporting adaptation actions through collaborative efforts to create scientific tools and communicate practical knowledge.