At Climate Strategies, our core mission is to ensure research is at the heart of climate policy-making. 

The interaction between researchers, policy makers and business stakeholders is crucial: it allows negotiators to benefit from relevant research and it directs researchers towards projects which can have tangible impact on the international climate regime. 

In 2014, Climate Strategies created a platform to address the issue above and organised its first ‘Global Climate Policy Conference’ (GCPC) in London, UK. The first conference was a huge success, and we subsequently delivered three more editions of GCPC, in New Delhi, India in 2015, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2016 and Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2018.

• Capacity building for local researchers in disseminating innovative ideas and information to key stakeholders and governments.
• Providing a platform for interactions between a wide range of stakeholders, from academia, government and business, to aid in understanding potential climate mitigation and adaptation actions.
• Strengthening intellectual and resilience capacity (including identification of the economy-wide investment priorities) needs within developing countries.

Please follow the links below to read more detail about each GCPC edition

• 1st GCPC (2014): ‘Less Talk, More Agreement: How Research can Help Unblock a Climate Deal’ 
• 2nd GCPC (2015): ‘New Research for Effective Action at Paris and Beyond: Strengthening the Research-Policy Interface in International Climate Negotiations’ 
• 3rd GCPC (2016): ‘Implementing the Paris Agreement. New Research Solutions for Developing Countries’ 
• 4th GCPC (2018): ‘Harnessing Research for Climate Ambition and Transparency’

Climate Strategies engages with a number of international and regional partners to convene our conferences. Current and past partners include:

• CDKN
• Iniciativa Climática de Mexico(ICM) 
• Instituto Clima et Sociedade (ICS) 
• Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)   
• Oak Foundation
• The Stanley Foundation
• Uongozi Institute