Mark it in your calendars: The upcoming online conference CLIMATE 2011 will feature "Climate Change + disaster risk management"! See more on www.climate2011.net.

This year we again issue the “Best Paper Award” in collaboration with Emerald Publishers. Please vote for your favorite authors and chose your favorite papers from the four categories.

Win 1 of 10 free books on „Universities and Climate Change". E-mail to Johanna: (a) Header “CLIMATE 2010 Book Lottery”, (b) conference user name, (c) full postal address. Winners are informed by e-mail. Good luck!

Did you know? A special features of this year’s conference is the conference section CC at your fingertips which offers free learning material for lecturers and teachers. Climate change games provide a playful way of getting involved with the key conference themes and a CO₂ calculator allows conference participants to assess their own CO₂ footprint.

Take a look behind the scenes before the official conference start on 1 November.

Listen to ICIMOD’s Dr Arun B. Shrestha’s 20 minute lecture on Climate Change and its Impacts on Cryosphere and Water Resources of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region - see menu Conference/Partner Podcasts or click here.

In the run up of COP 16 in Cancún/Mexico, CLIMATE 2010 features a new video podcast in which the Parliamentary State Secretary Katherina Reiche, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Germany, encourages the worldwide participants to seize the innovative online-climate conference for networking, discussing newest findings in climate research and for developing sustainable solutions.

Dr Norbert Roettgen, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the patron of the upcoming online climate conference CLIMATE 2010. Read more about the minister and his ministry's International Climate Initiative on the patronage or read the full press release.

All webpages of CLIMATE 2010 are hosted CO₂-neutral by the CLIMATE 2010 partner STRATO.

CO₂ emissions related to the use of participants´ personal computers during the online climate conference from 1-7 November 2010 will be compensated by our conference partner KlimaInvest. To guarantee a climate-neutral conference week, a wind energy park in Turkey is being financed according to the acknowleged WWF Gold Standard.

Climate Change Project Pool

Welcome to the Climate Change Project Pool. This section aims to showcase climate projects taking place in different parts of the world and disseminate them as examples of what is happening "on the ground".
This section serves to promote climate projects from all around the world. Furthermore, it may serve to facilitate the exchange between projects and potential new partners who might to join these activities, leading to improved networking and, possibly, new joint cooperation projects.

"Interested persons/organisations are kindly invited to apply with their projects for incorporation in the database (info@klima2010.net)."

The projects are available in a "category view" and a "alphabetical view".

Category 1: Technical elements related to climate change
Category 2: Climate Change and Society
Category 3: Economics and Climate Change
Category 4: Political and policy aspects of climate change
Category 5: Education and Awareness-raising on climate change

Project: NEEM (Northern Greeland Eemian Ice Drilling)
Led by: University of Copenhagen

Project: Measuring CO₂ from space exploiting planned missions 2001 - 2004
Led by: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.

Project: ENSEMBLES
Led by: Met Office

Project: GEMS (Global and regional Earth-system (Atmosphere) Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data)
Led by: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Project: PRISM - Partnership for Research Infrastructures in Earth Systems Modelling
Led by: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie

Project: Earth System CURATOR
Led by: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie

Project: European Network for Earth Systems Modelling
Led by: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie

Project: GO-ESSP (Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal)
Led by: US Department of Commerce

Project: Common Metadata for Climate Modelling Digital Repositories
Led by: European Union

Project: GENIEfy - Creating a Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling framework for the community
Led by: University of Bristol, University of East Anglia

Project: Building adaptive capacity to cope with increasing vulnerability due to climate change
Led by: ICRISAT

Educational, research and extension competencies to develop strategies that help rural communities adapt to climate variability and change enhanced in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Project: Managing risk, reducing vulnerability and enhancing productivity under a changing climate
Led by: ICRISAT

The impacts of climate induced crises mitigated and resilience improved through the adoption, by small-scale farmers, of innovative strategies that reduce climate risk and manage vulnerability in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan.

Project: Community management of crop diversity to enhance resilience, yield stability and income generation in changing West African climates
Led by: ICRISAT

To enhance farm community resilience, production stability and income generation in West Africa (Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana) under variable and changing climates by enriching agro-biodiversity management across a climatic gradient.

Project: SUGAR
Led by: IFM-GEOMAR

Downloads:
SUGAR Project
SUGAR Infos

Project: Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative
Led by: UNEP

Project: C-Learn Climate Simulation
Led by: Sustainability Institute

Project: Climate Interactive
Led by: Sustainability Institute

Project: Future Cities
Led by: Emscher Genossenschaft Lippe Verband

Project: alfa - Adaptive Land Use for Flood Alleviation
Led by: Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management

Project: AMICE - Adaptation of the Meuse to the Impacts of Climate Evolution
Led by: EPAMA

Project: FRC - FloodResilienCity
Led by: Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management

Project: FireStClim
Led by: Zentralstelle der Forstverwaltung (ZdF)

Project: IMCORE - Innovative Management For Europe´s Changing Coastal Resource
Led by: University College of Cork

Project: WAVE - Water Adaptation is Valuable for Everybody
Led by: Waterboard Regge en Dinkel

Project: European responses to climate change: deep emissions reductions and mainstreaming of mitigation and adaptation (RESPONSES)
Led by: Seventh Framework Programme

Project: Atmospheric Composition Change: the European Network-Policy Support and Science
Led by: Helmholtz-Zentrum, Climate Service Center

Project: CATALYST
Led by: seeconsult GmbH, Germany

Download:
CATALYST Factsheet