Monitoring software for adaptation

PRWEB: Adaptation to climate change is mushrooming into a new development and poverty reduction paradigm. The much heralded Green Climate Fund, the private sector initiatives such as those advocated by the Global Adaptation Institute and governments charged with managing the inflow of capital portend to a new and underserviced area – monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation projects.

As Peter Urich the Managing Director of CLIMsystems notes the donor community is clamoring for expertise to assist them in monitoring the complexities of climate adaptation projects that integrate science, policy, the environment and social systems. To answer the need CLIMsystems which leads the world in the development of user friendly and scientifically robust climate risk and adaptation assessment software has established an integrated team of leading professionals with the mix of skills and experience to effectively and efficiently monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation projects.

Urich says “this is a growing market our partners such as CH2M Hill and our global group of climate change Associates wish to play a pivotal role in assisting the development community in meeting its obligations through well-conceived, designed and implemented adaptation projects”. In an interview Gareth Johnson of Future Ready PTY in Australia expressed his views. He noted that “efforts in responding to climate change have proven complex and often difficult and are likely to become more so...."