This report examines how different actions to address the causes and consequences of climate change can build on the social protection mechanisms identified through a literature review and through the guidance of ILO normative frameworks. It dedicates special attention to the contributory aspect of social protection in the context of climate policies, which has been given little attention in the existing literature. Although the report focuses on climate change, it also draws on knowledge gathered in other contexts, such as economic, financial, and humanitarian crises and from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, whose global and complex effects are often seen as providing a glimpse of the nature of potential future disasters likely to be induced by climate change.