The Global Climate Forum is a non-profit association of research institutes, think tanks, companies, NGOs and individual researchers that together initiate and perform innovative research on climate change and related global challenges. Our aim thereby is not necessarily to reach a consensus, but to develop a variety of well-considered opinions. The forum thus cultivates a pluralistic exchange in which different points of view are freely expressed and debated, on a basis of mutual respect. By doing so, GCF has develop world-leading expertise in a number of topics including green growth, instruments and technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, integrated risk and adaptation governance, and coastal climate impacts and adaptation. Currently GCF staff coordinate two major European-funded projects: i) Centre of Excellence for Global Systems Science (CoeGSS), which is a European consortium of supercomputing centres, scientific institutions, businesses and NGOs that helps industry, policy makers and the society, faced with global challenges, take effective action by providing them with high resolution data and simulations; ii) GREEN-WIN, which draws together universities, think tanks, UN agencies, NGOs and finance institutes from around the world, in order to identify, develop and critically assess win-win strategies, green business models and green growth pathways that bring short-term economic benefits, while also supporting mitigation and adaptation goals within the broader sustainable development agenda.