CACCI INITIATIVE

The Comprehensive Action on Climate Change Initiative (CACCI) will create transformational policies, strengthen human capacity and improve institutional infrastructure to drive progress on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Using agriculture as an entry point, the initiative engages with partners to spur action towards achieving their commitments under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and encourages learning and collaboration across countries. The CACCI activities will ultimately come together into a multifaceted portfolio of action to address climate challenges across countries while protecting food security and livelihoods. More information can be found on our project page.

Key Facts:

CACCI is an international response to provide localized support for countries to accelerate implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) in accordance with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

CACCI-LAC will support LAC countries and regional intergovernmental organizations in the implementation of resilience investments under the NDCs and NAPs.

CACCI-LAC will contribute to the data gathering and analysis to effectively track Implementation Results Frameworks in partnering countries to monitor progress toward strategic objectives.

Climate change country profiles in LAC and Asia: 

CACCI is based on four pillars: 

Clarify ambitions and set policy agendas:
Establish a baseline and conducting status assessments sets a knowledge base and potential for improvement. The construction of a comprehensive dataset in each country to enable tracking of implementation results — done by working with local stakeholders to draw on existing data and put in place mechanisms to sustainably generate needed
new data — will pay dividends during step four.

Strengthen human capacity and improve institutional infrastructure: The goal is to build the skills, infrastructure and expertise of national actors so they can assess, gather and analyze the data to make powerful and effective policy decisions. This will equip local institutions and experts with the tools, technologies and methodologies needed to support ongoing analysis that informs implementation following project completion.

Facilitate implementation and progress toward net zero carbon emissions: Capacity to map public and private climate finance can be built and a project pipeline will create an ongoing flow of change. Project options like biodiversity conservation, land preservation and sustainable agriculture projects will mitigate climate change effects and also enhance adaptation. Vulnerability assessment committees for analytics, early warning and climate modeling are needed. Mutual accountability between governmental ministries and with technical and ministerial committees will be necessary.

Track progress, report and monitor: To know if policy is useful, data needs to be gathered, assessed and shared with key stakeholders. Indicators need to be measured for effectiveness and channels of communication must be opened and strengthened so governments can use research and data to continue to build and disseminate new policies with the ultimate goal of net zero carbon emissions.