We support the implementation of Paris Agreement designing, implementing and evaluating climate change policies and projects based on rigorous and transparent accounting and modelling systems, leveraging climate finance opportunities

Climate Change

Climate Change is causing effects that are global in scope and unprecedented in scale such as loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and shifting weather patterns. The Fifth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that, without immediate action, climate change will have repercussions that transcend generations.

At OCA Global we have a long track record in the delivery of climate change services based on international best practices at a national, regional and local level for public and private organisations. During the last years, OCA Global has worked on an array of sectors in order to mitigate GHG emissions and increase resilience across infrastructures, societies and organisations: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste management, urban development coastal zone management, sustainable transport and tourism among many others.

The main areas of expertise of our Climate Change practice are:

Climate Change Mitigation

The ultimate objective of mitigation strategies is to reduce the release of greenhouse gas emissions causing our planet’s warming.

Design and implementation of Climate Mitigation strategies at sectorial, regional and national levels
Update of National Determined Contributions (NDC) and preparation of implementation plans
Climate governance and institutional frameworks
GHG Emissions Inventory and Abatement
Transition Roadmaps to Low Carbon Economy and Technologies
Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Analysis

Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

Climate adaptation entails both reduce vulnerability to the effects of climate change and taking advantage of opportunities associated with climate change.

Development of strategies and action plans for climate change adaptation
Climate Risk and Vulnerability assessment and Disaster Management Plans
Climate Modelling
Resilient Cities pilot projects design

Climate Finance

We assist in identifying and designing climate finance strategies, implementation plans and options for national policy initiatives, infrastructures and projects, taking into account national, international and multilateral financing institutions funds and facilities as well as carbon market mechanisms.

Assessment of climate finance needs
Tracking Climate Finance
Institutional Design of Climate Finance

Stakeholder engagement and capacity building

Inclusive stakeholder participation and capacity enhancement are necessary to guarantee that projects are owned and replicable by the final beneficiaries.

Design and implementation of participation mechanisms
Stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies
Design and implementation of presential and virtual workshops and conferences for brainstorming, consultation and validation purposes.
Institutional Needs Assessment and design and implementation of capacity building programmes

Featured projects

Support to Afreximbank in climate action and sustainable economy lending

Multi country - European Investment Bank

Building Afreximbank's capacity in lending to finance financially, technically, economically, socially and environmentally viable private sector projects. Supporting Afreximbank's strategy to promote export development, strengthening its capacity in lending to the intermediate private sector and institutionalising a credit framework for SME lending.
Technical advice and climate change policy formulation to update Barbados' first NDC

Barbados - Inter-American Development Bank

The overall objective of this consultancy is to update Barbados' first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in line with UNFCCC requirements, new national priorities and targets set in response to Barbados' commitment to become a resilient, carbon neutral economy by 2030, through recommendations at institutional, policy, regulatory, operational and financial levels.
Alignment between the country’s INDC and recent national plans and strategies

Suriname - Inter-American Development Bank

Technical Assistance to facilitate the alignment between Suriname's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and its recent national plans and strategies to enable the definition and implementation of a new NDC. Making recommendations at institutional, policy, regulatory, operational and financial levels, as well as proposals for climate finance.
Low carbon development of the Chilean iron and steel industry

Chile - Bariloche Foundation / Inter-American Development Bank

Assistance to Chile and its steel industry in the transition to cleaner and more sustainable technologies without losing competitiveness, through an assessment and identification of technology needs for climate change, with an emphasis on energy consumption.
Identificación y potenciación de las oportunidades de inversión del sector privado para la NDC de Uruguay

Uruguay - Inter-American Development Bank

Consultancy with the objective of facilitating private investment in the measures included in the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The actions carried out consist of identifying in which measures there are opportunities to enhance the involvement of the private sector, and subsequently detecting with which potential financial instruments they can be financed to contribute to climate action in the country.
Athens Resilient City: Climate Mitigation

Greece - European Commission

The overall objective of the project focuses on supporting the Municipality of Athens to improve the Energy Efficiency and the resilience to earthquakes of public buildings, in line with the scope of the EIB project and the objectives of the ITI and the Resilience Strategy.
Low Carbon Business Action in Brazil

Brazil - European Commission

The objective of the project is to contribute to the sustainable development of Brazilian industries through the adoption of low emission technologies (including energy efficiency) in the energy, transport, manufacturing, waste, agriculture and forestry sectors, through technology transfer actions, the creation of new low emission industries, and industrial cooperation between EU SMEs and their Brazilian partners.
Caribbean Climate Smart Islands Program - Assessment of mitigation options to support the transition to low carbon pathways

Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas y Belize - Inter-American Development Bank

Supporting the transition to low-carbon development models in Trinidad and Tobago, Belize and the Bahamas by identifying and implementing resilient mitigation measures in priority sectors. Includes review and expansion of existing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventories in selected sectors; identification and implementation of pilot mitigation projects; and making recommendations for institutional and legal frameworks.
GHG Emission Accounting from Tourism Sector in Montenegro

Montenegro - UNDP

The purpose of this project is to recalculate baseline GHG emissions from tourism sector in Montenegro (2013), to develop methodology for annual GHG emissions’ accounting and sectoral Monitoring, Reporting and Verification system and to provide training to the relevant national authorities in charge of GHG monitoring primarily MONSTAT and Environment protection Agency.
Carbon Footprint Measurement and revision of the Climate Change Strategy of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Spain - Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Review and update of the measurement of the Carbon Footprint of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, which includes 52 industrial facilities and office buildings, as well as the review of the Carbon Strategy targets for external verification. Technical assistance in calculating the carbon footprint and offsetting carbon emissions and measuring the carbon footprint of the waste sector of 36 municipalities.