The Institute coordinated a team of sixty experts that developed national studies of vulnerability to climate change and potential response options in eight Asian countries - Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam. These studies provided the focus for a 1995 Manila Asia Pacific Leaders Conference on Climate Change hosted by Philippine President Fidel Ramos.

Working through the US Country Studies Program the Institute advised the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency on developing a climate change country study of Egypt and convened a national workshop on climate change held in March 1996 in Cairo.

Working with the US Country Studies Program and the Uruguayan National Commission on Climate, the Climate Institute helped organize a Latin American Regional Workshop on Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in April 1996 in Montevideo Uruguay. This meeting pulled together about 130 experts and policy makers from Latin America.

Jointly with the U.S. Country Studies Program, the Japan Environment Agency and the Indonesian Ministry of Environment the Climate Institute organized an International Workshop on Climate Change National Action Plans, January 6-10, 1997 in Bogor, Indonesia.