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

This report from the Executive Directorate of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) details activities and achievements between June 2015 and May 2016. It focuses on capacity building, the integration of science and policy, and the establishment of international partnerships to address climate change and biodiversity loss in the Americas.

• The NSF-funded Seed Grants Program for Training Institutes (November 2011 - March 2016) established 11 interdisciplinary networks involving 67 professionals from 34 institutions across 15 countries. The IAI invested $218,000 from the NSF, while participating institutions contributed over $155,000 in cash and in-kind support.
• The IAI-MacArthur project on climate change impacts in the tropical Andes (2011-2015) achieved several milestones, including the creation of a high-resolution climate tool for risk and exposure, the vulnerability assessment of 22 ecosystems and approximately 2,500 species in border regions of Colombia-Ecuador and Peru-Bolivia, and the production of global change risk maps for study areas.
• The IAI is transitioning from a primarily US-funded scientific program to a model with greater participation from all member countries. This includes the creation of an Inter-American Forum of Funding Agencies to help countries co-finance international research, with three countries having already agreed to the legal text.
• The Science-Policy Liaison Directorate (SPLD) in Buenos Aires is implementing a Science Impact Analysis Program to quantify the IAI's contribution to national and regional policies. Initial mapping shows that 67% of researchers belong to universities or pure research institutes, while 33% belong to other types of institutions.
• The IAI has strengthened its global political engagement by joining the UN-backed 'Project Everyone' campaign for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and collaborating with the UNFCCC and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This includes preparing a Scientific Forum for the CBD COP-13 in Cancún, Mexico.
• The IAI is collaborating with the UNFCCC to collect information on the potential impacts of the 1.5°C global average temperature increase limit. Models indicate that achieving this goal would require per capita emissions to be reduced from 7 to less than 2 tons of fossil carbon.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). Informe de la Dirección Ejecutiva del IAI a la Vigésima cuarta Conferencia de las Partes. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-24-directorate-report-s.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Informe de la Dirección Ejecutiva del IAI a la Vigésima cuarta Conferencia de las Partes. n.d. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-24-directorate-report-s.pdf.

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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 cuarta Conferencia de las Partes}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-24-directorate-report-s.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }