Coming up


Highlights

REDD: Is it effective? Pro-poor? Experiences from Indonesia (presentation European Development Days (EDD), Dec. 07, 2010)

The undervalued role of ecosystem carbon in climate change mitigation (KLIMOS Policy brief 1)

Dryland areas, forgotten by REDD? (KLIMOS Policy brief 2)

KLIMOS in the media

Radio interview (in Dutch) Radio 1Developing countries will face the largest impact of climate change

Internal

KLIMOS - Research Platform Climate Change and Development Cooperation

What?

  • KLIMOS is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity research platform working on climate change adaptation and mitigation in development aid.
  • We study how the three major research themes
    • Energy
    • Food security
    • Forest
can be integrated in a sustainable way.

Goal

  • Developing a sound knowledge base on the consequences of climate change in developing countries.
  • Sharing this knowledge with stakeholders as the governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector, in North and South.

Research platform for development cooperation

KLIMOS is an O*platform, a research platform for development cooperation, supported by VLIR-UOS, the Flemish universitary council for universitary development cooperation. These research platforms aim at

  • collecting scientific knowledge of specific development themes,
  • pooling the expertise knowledge of different sectors and disciplines and
  • supporting the development aid policy of the Belgian government.

Structure of the platform

Ten research groups of three different universities and one college are involved in KLIMOS:


The consortium is guided by a steering group, which consists of representatives of the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGDC), VLIR-UOS, K.U.Leuven and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

In addition, a KLIMOS-network of non-profit organisations and public organisations gives additional input regarding the content of the KLIMOS-activities.