Bo Lim is the Senior Technical Advisor and Chief of the Capacity Development and Adaptation Group at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-Global Environment Facility (GEF). Erika Spanger-Siegfried is an Associate Scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute, Boston Center. Ian Burton is a Scientist Emeritus with the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), and an Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto, where he was formerly Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies. Elizabeth L. Malone is a Senior Research Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. Saleemul Huq is Director of the Climate Change Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London.