Wednesday 16 May 2012
About CCB
The Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) is a program within the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU).
WHO WE ARE
CCB is an educational, outreach, and networking organization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We focus on enhancing the value and use of climate, water, and weather information for the betterment of societies and the wellbeing of individuals.
CCB’s work occurs in both developed and developing countries to help the most vulnerable societies and populations mitigate and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate. Consortium partners are individuals and institutions working globally on capacity building in water, climate, and society issues.
WHAT WE DO
• Outreach refers to our activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America and elsewhere that raise awareness about climate and water issues among university educators in the physical, biological and social sciences and the humanities. As educators are made aware of how climate-related processes influence the issues they are interested in, they include that information in their classrooms. The same applies to trainers educating those already in the workplace.
• Outputs refer to the success of our activities as measured by the inclusion of climate-related information in reports, publications, curricula, seminars, workshops, etc. including “how to” programs on the best and most appropriate use of climate, water and weather information.
• Outcomes refer to the impacts that remain once the education and training activities end. The outcomes include the heightened capacity of individuals and institutions to cope effectively with climate change, climate variability, water, and high-impact weather anomalies and extremes. This increased capacity leads to empowerment.
OUR HISTORY
We relocated to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2008 after receiving support from the Rockefeller Foundation and becoming a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment. CCB was established in 1974 as the pioneering Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Mailing Address:
Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB)
INSTAAR | University of Colorado
1560 30th St | Campus Box 450
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0450 USA
Tel: 303.492.5957
Fax: 303.492.6388
Email: Professor Michael Glantz at michael.glantz@colorado.edu or
Email: Dr. Qian Ye at qian.ye@colorado.edu
or
Email: Dr. Tsegay Wolde-Georgis at Tsegay@colorado.edu
To learn about the CCB staff members please go to http://ccb.colorado.edu/staff.php