At the Doha Climate Change Conference, the Conference of the Parties (COP) decided to establish, at COP19 (November 2013), institutional arrangements, such as an international mechanism to address loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

In order to obtain an overview of the landscape of existing institutional arrangements that address the full spectrum of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, the UNFCCC secretariat requested relevant information from a wide range of organizations and networks engaged in work related to reducing vulnerability to and building resilience against climate change.

The table below contains information provided by 46 organizations during the summer of 2013 in response to the request from the secretariat for inputs. These examples represent different ways in which organizations are currently responding to the increasingly challenging risks of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.

Examples of existing institutional arrangements and measures in addressing loss and damage associated with climate change impacts
Organization	Regional coverage of the arrangements and measures
Africa Youth Movement (375 kB)	Africa
African Risk Capacity (338 kB)	Africa
Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (320 kB)	Asia
Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (431 kB)	Asia-Pacific
Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (336 kB)	Caribbean
Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (361 kB)	Asia
Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño (279 kB)	Latin America
Coalition of Journalists on Environment and Agriculture (285 kB)	Africa
Department of Biological Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria (298 kB)	Africa
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) 1 (309 kB)   2 (481 kB) 3 (448 kB)	Global
El Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (318 kB)	Latin America
ENDA Energy-Environment-Development (104 kB)	Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization (457 kB)	Global
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (450 kB)	Global
Global Fire Monitoring Center (373 kB)	Global
Global Water Partnership (624 kB)	Global
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (322 kB)	Asia
International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (333 kB)	Africa
International Centre for Climate Change and Development (158 kB)	Asia
International Council for Exploration of the Sea (317 kB)	Global
International Energy Agency (330 kB)	Global
International Federation of the Red Cross (345 kB)	Global
International Organization for Migration (438 kB)	Global
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (395 kB)	Global
International Telecommunication Union (380 kB)	Global
International Union for Conservation of Nature (325 kB)	Global
ISET-International  (546 kB)	Asia
Mekong River Commission (392 kB)	Asia
MicroEnsure (413 kB)	Africa, Asia, Caribbean
Participatory Development Action Program (312 kB)	Africa
Pyrenees Climate Change Observatory (402 kB)	Europe
Sahara and Sahel Observatory (461 kB)	Africa
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (431 kB)	Global
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (342 kB)	Pacific
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (428 kB)	Pacific
Sompo Japan Insurance (302 kB)	Asia
Sudan Meteorological Authority (378 kB)	Africa
United Nations Development Programme (438 kB)	Global
United Nations Environment Programme 1 (308 kB)   2 (346 kB)	Global
United Nations International Strategy for for Disaster Risk Reduction  1 (345 kB) 2 (338 kB)	Global
United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (386 kB)	Global
Urban Climate Change Research Network (308 kB)	Global
World Bank (408 kB)	Global
World Federation of Engineering Organizations (309 kB)	Global
World Food Programme (331 kB)	Global
World Health Organization (467 kB)	Global
World Meteorological Organization (660 kB)	Global