Environmental Change Institute ​​​

The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) is a research centre based at the University of Oxford, which is working to democratise access to climate risk data by providing decision-makers with the tools to better understand and address the needs of vulnerable communities in the Global South when planning for climate-related disasters.

The Howden Foundation is supporting ECI to build the J-ADAPT Toolkit - the world’s first fully open toolkit of its kind - which provides tailored, high-quality analytics on climate-related risks, whilst assessing the social and economic impacts of plans that aim to address them. The toolkit specifically focuses on enabling green (i.e. natural) and grey (i.e. built) infrastructure to become better adapted to a changing climate, while also helping governments and communities develop adaptation plans that are as just and inclusive as possible, in order to bring the maximum benefit to the world’s most vulnerable people. The work is being piloted in Kenya.