Launched in May 2008, Project Catalyst – a joint initiative of the European Climate Foundation and ClimateWorks Foundation – provides analytical and policy support for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement.

Project Catalyst members are organized into a number of working groups centered around issues important in lowering the environmental impacts of mankind:

• Global warming mitigation
• Adaptation
• Technology
• Forestry
• Finance, and
• Climate-compatible growth plans

Each working group has received analytical support from the international consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Working group members include a total of about 150 climate negotiators, senior government officials, representatives of multilateral institutions, business executives and leading experts from over 30 countries.

Project Catalyst and its working groups provide a forum where key participants in the global discussions can informally interact, conduct analyses, jointly problem solve and contribute ideas and proposals to the formal UNFCCC process.

Click on the link to access Project Catalyst’s website, where you can learn more about this initiative and download analytical papers it has produced: project-catalyst.info