Informe de la Dirección Ejecutiva del IAI a la Vigésima Tercera Conferencia de las Partes

The IAI Executive Directorate report for the period July 2014 to May 2015 details the institute's efforts to bridge the gap between global change science and policy in the Americas. Key activities include the 'Lima 2014 Declaration on Biodiversity and Climate Change', the establishment of the Science-Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC), and the management of several cooperative research networks (CRN3 and SGP-CRA). The report highlights a significant trend toward interdisciplinarity in IAI-funded research, with social sciences integration rising from 33% in CRN1 to 87% in CRN3. Additionally, the report describes a MacArthur-funded project on climate vulnerability in the tropical Andes and various capacity-building seminars across Panama, Guatemala, and other member states.

• The IAI and the Ministry of Environment of Peru organized a symposium and a subsequent event at COP-20 that resulted in the 'Lima 2014 Declaration on Biodiversity and Climate Change', which advocates for integrated research on biodiversity and climate change.
• The IAI has established a Science-Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC) consisting of 9 members to act as a think tank that provides strategic thinking on regional and continental responses to global change.
• Analysis of IAI-funded research shows a strong shift toward interdisciplinarity; the integration of social sciences in project conceptualization increased from 33% in the CRN1 network to 63% in CRN2 and 87% in CRN3.
• A MacArthur Foundation-funded project on the tropical Andes identified that while most species are not vulnerable to climate change, vulnerable species are concentrated in low-altitude (piedmont) and high-altitude (treeline, páramo, puna) ecosystems.
• The IAI is negotiating its role within the Future Earth (FE) program, seeking a more equitable partnership between regional and global entities to avoid 'command and control' structures that would hinder the integration of sovereign member states.
• The IAI manages two primary grant networks: the Small Grants for Cooperative Research in the Americas (SGP-CRA), involving 14 member countries and 76 researchers, and the third Cooperative Research Network (CRN3), comprising 17 projects with 131 researchers from 14 member countries.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). Informe de la Dirección Ejecutiva del IAI a la Vigésima Tercera Conferencia de las Partes. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-23-directorate-report-s.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Informe de la Dirección Ejecutiva del IAI a la Vigésima Tercera Conferencia de las Partes. n.d. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-23-directorate-report-s.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndinforme, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Informe de la Dirección Ejecutiva del IAI a la Vigésima Tercera Conferencia de las Partes}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-23-directorate-report-s.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }