Communities aren’t ready for near-term climate change. TMP helps local grassroots organizations to prepare and get the resources they need
TMP’s research has taken us to more than 70 countries, from Afghanistan to Zambia and beyond. Wherever we go, communities and local governments lack two things: information about what near-term climate change means for them and support for how to deal with it.
Designing and implementing resilience plans takes resources many communities don’t have. TMP bridges the gap by working directly with local communities, helping them to assess and quantify the financial and technical demands of climate-related risks and opportunities, then implement locally authored resilience and action plans.
Our experts have three advantages others don’t:
Forward-looking data
Our climate models focus on near-term, localized extremes – not distant global averages – allowing us to communicate effectively with different local groups.
Strong local networks
Our extensive networks of grassroots organizations – not least in mineral-rich countries like Chile, Indonesia and Zambia – can help us earn trust from local groups.
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Connections to funding
We have decades of experience in understanding communities’ financial and technical needs – and connecting them directly to funding with minimum intermediation (or additional cost).
TMP has been committed to local communities from day one – not just analyzing data from afar, but meeting the people and seeing the places directly experiencing what our data was supposed to reflect. Our earliest visits to communities in Latin America, West Africa and Southeast Asia revealed a truth that continues to motivate our work: climate change is happening now, not in some distant future, and it’s already taking a major toll.
In the years since, we’ve run programs in dozens of countries to help communities prepare and respond. Notable successes include the Social License Platform, which connected international businesses to local providers of community engagement, and Dryad, a funding mechanism to support forest-dependent communities that drastically reduced illegal logging and encroachment while boosting local incomes. But even workstreams that nominally tackle other challenges – like strengthening transition mineral supply chains – put local resilience at their core.
TMP has worked with a wide range of funders, multinationals and grassroots NGOs to help local communities prepare for near-term climate change. To find out how we can help you too, get in touch with our team.
3.6 billion
Number of people who live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change
Souce: IPCC
92%
Amount, based on median estimates, by which global investment in local climate adaptation is falling short
Source: TMP based on AGR UN
<10%
Proportion of adaptation funding that reaches local governments, who are responsible for 90% of actions
Source: AGR UN
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