Communities of Practice are organized around national development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals, contributing to their successful achievement. Members come from all types of institutions, namely - government, NGOs, private sector, academia, activists, multi-lateral and bilateral agencies - to interact on an ongoing basis, build trust, and strengthen their work as a group.

Key benefits include:

• Connecting people with common interests

• Pooling together of similar experiences

• Access to practitioner knowledge

• Providing a wide range of solutions

• Collaboration for developing and testing innovative ideas

• Increasing development effectiveness

How it works
Everyone in a Solution Exchange Community of Practice is subscribed to an email discussion group moderated by a senior domain specialist (Moderator). When you face a challenge and would like help from your colleagues, you e-mail your query to the Community Moderator. The Moderator then sends it to all members of the Community. Other members respond with advice, experience, contacts or other suggestions to help you out. After two weeks the query closes and the Moderator synthesizes the discussions into a "Consolidated Reply" - a synopsis of the responses together with the additional resources recommended (websites, readings, experts or organizations), that is circulated to the Community.

Solution Exchange for Climate Change
The issue of Climate Change is rapidly gaining attention, both amongst practitioners and the general public. There is, however, no credible discussion forum in India, where practitioners can share experiences and knowledge and help each other in addressing Climate Change issues. The Solution Exchange Community of Practice (CoP) on Climate Change has been set up to To respond to this felt need. The primary focus of the Climate Change Community is on changes taking place due to the build up of carbon and greenhouse gases and efforts to mitigate these changes (mitigation). The secondary focus is the Climate Change impacts on the environment, and consequent impacts on human development (adaptation). As part of our effort to address this important issue, the Climate Change Community will be running queries on the topic of Climate Change. We hope you will participate actively in our discussions and suggest issues of importance for the Community to take up.

Who should become a member of the Climate Change Community?

• Interested engineers, scientists and researchers

• Staff of technical research, development, and education institutions

• Private sector, NGOs, and other developers and implementers of clean technologies

• Staff of concerned government regulatory framework enforcement agencies

• Government and non-government researchers

• Field practitioners working on Climate Change issues

• Climate Change activists

• Planers, policy analysts and policy-makers

• Donors and sponsors

• Other concerned professionals and citizens

• Elected representatives

What are some of the issues covered by this Community?

• Mitigation

  • Energy efficiency improvements, and renewable energy options

  • Clean technology development and diffusion
  • Carbon sinks/sequestration
• Adaptation

  • Vulnerable communities

  • Gender sensitive adaptation strategies
  • Safeguarding threatened species

• Environmental pollution

• Greenhouse Gases

• Environmental finance

  • Carbon trading, MDG Carbon Facility, local financing

  • Links with Corporate Social Responsibility

• Regulatory, policy frameworks relating to climate change

• National Action Plan for Climate Change (National Missions) Government and non-government researchers

Who are the leaders of this Community?
The Community is guided by a "Resource Group" of individuals representing key organizations and agencies from the development sector:

• Government

• Civil society and non-governmental organizations

• Academic and research institutions

• UN agencies

What is the role of the Climate Change Community?

• Provide a platform for information exchange with regard to Climate Change issues

• Initiate discussion on selected themes provided by community members.

• Collate the knowledge generated and disseminate it to various stakeholders including media, government officials, academic institutes, donor agencies and other development agencies.

• Provide inputs to legislators, political parties, policy makers, media and NGOs when appropriate.

The Community is facilitated by UNDP India

How to participate
Participation is free of cost and open to any professional and grassroot practitioners.

Click here to sign up and become a part of the Climate Change Community.

For further information about the Climate Change Community email se-clmt@solutionexchange-un.net.in

Resource Team:

Solution Exchange is an initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India

www.solutionexchange-un.net.in

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