WASP is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) , the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations University (UNU)...
The core vision of the WASP is that of ensuring that climate adaptation research gaps are filled, with a particular focus on policy-relevant scientific research...
WASP's overall mission is to make science work for climate change adaptation. WASP ensures that researchers, policymakers and practitioners have the knowledge, capacity, and solutions to underpin and implement effective adaptation to climate change. Its work focuses primarily on providing products and services to the UNFCCC process, IPCC assessments, GCF projects, and GEF projects.