The Global Climate Change Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) is an international company that develops robust, flexible solutions aligned with the unique institutional requirements of our clients, from national planning to local operations.

Our distinctive approach combines in-depth knowledge and access to vast amounts of data-from climate to vulnerability, impacts and adaptation options-with strong operational and planning insights. 

 GCAP provides climate-related services to both government and commercial clients in:

  • Consulting
  • Knowledge Management (aSpace)
  • Training (Adaptation Academy)

As the pace of climate change accelerates, businesses and governments are increasingly engaging in efforts to determine sound climate adaptation solutions. Our experts understand the uncertainties of climate change and can focus on the unique aspects of the target region, whether to provide relevant analysis of the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation, to develop an appropriate adaptation investment strategy, to build a customised adaptation knowledge tool, to train clients in best adaptation practices or to find other innovative adaptation solutions.

GCAP develops solutions through a growing network of offices and joint ventures located in regions where adaptation services are most in demand.  We seek to build capacity and have an enduring effect in guiding clients to successful, sustainable action.  We have full-time staff and an extensive network of trusted consultants who can effectively deliver your adaptation services.

Climate Change in the News (Source: Climate Central)
Optimism for Crops in Midwest; Dire Straits in the West
May 23rd
When it comes to this year’s drought, it seems like good news never arrives without bad news to match. Even as drought receded from the Upper Midwest this week, conditions deepened and intensified all across the Southwest. Optimism that may emerg…
2013 Hurricane Season Could Be Extremely Active: NOAA
May 23rd
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that the 2013 hurricane season, which begins on June 1, is likely to be somewhere between active and extremely active, with between 13 and 20 named storms – those with sustained winds a…
Oklahoma Tornado Shows Progress in Weather Warnings
May 23rd
Despite the utter devastation left in the wake of the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday, the deadly storm, in many ways, helped show how far scientists have come in providing communities early tornado warning signs. In an era …
NOAA Satellite Malfunctions, May Affect Forecasts
May 22nd
As the weather system that spawned the deadly Moore tornado moves eastward, the main weather satellite used for observing and forecasting conditions across eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean has gone offline. It's the second malfunction since…
Limiting Methane Leaks Critical to Gas, Climate Benefits
May 22nd
By Climate Central Knowing how much methane is leaking from the natural gas system is essential to determining the potential climate benefits of natural gas use. Our extensive review of the publicly available studies finds that a pervasive lack of me…
Making Sense of the Moore Tornado in a Climate Context
May 21st
The devastating tornado that ripped apart Moore, Okla., on Monday now joins the ranks of America’s strongest twisters on record, coming almost exactly two years after a similarly extreme and deadly tornado struck Joplin, Mo. In trying to make sen…
Widespread Greenland Melting A Sign of Things to Come
May 21st
When 97 percent of Greenland’s ice experienced at least some melting in July 2012, scientists wondered if it was a one-time phenomenon. Now a new study in Geophysical Research Letters indicates it is a sign of things to come and by 2025, there is…
Tornadoes Rake Okla., Kansas as Storm Threat Continues
May 20th
A tornado outbreak on Sunday left at least two people dead in Oklahoma and nearly two dozen injured after the busiest day in what had been an unusually tame 2013 tornado season. The Shawnee, Okla., tornado that caus…
Warming Causing Rockies, Everest to Lose Ice and Snow
May 20th
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network LONDON – Around 20 percent of the snow cover in North America’s greatest mountain range has been lost – because of warmer springs in the last three decades. Scientists from the American Ge…
Study Projects Steep Increase in NYC Heat-Related Deaths
May 19th
An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes more extreme heat events, according to a new study released Sunday. The study found that heat-related mortality may rise 20 percent by the 2020s, …

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