How can CDKN help?

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) aims to help decision-makers in developing countries design and deliver climate compatible development. We do this by providing demand-led research and technical assistance, and channelling the best available knowledge on climate change and development to support policy processes at the country level.

CDKN Highlights

Durban climate politics and the growing importance of unity for vulnerable countries

Guest blogger Matthew McKinnon of DARA says vulnerable developing countries should form a more united front in international climate talks, if they’re to gain more funding and emissions cuts from rich countries.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 12pm, December 20, 2011

CDKN policy brief series: inside stories on climate compatible development

A series of policy briefs that explore the ‘Inside stories on climate compatible development’ in India, China, Tanzania, Niger, Mexico, Zambia and Bangladesh.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 12pm, December 20, 2011

New briefing paper – ‘The Green Climate Fund: options for mobilizing the private sector’

CDKN has funded a new briefing paper, developed by Katherine Sierra, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. It outlines options for how the private sector could be mobilised to support the Green Climate Fund.
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by: CDKN Global

Finding new ways to swim – conventional versus green growth

This guest blog is from Hannah Ryder, Senior Economist at DFID, who discusses two new papers, from UNEP and the World Bank, which contribute to the growing body of evidence on green growth and give us some initial models for green growth pathways.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 9am, December 19, 2011

CDKN at CoP17: videos from our debates on climate compatible development

View videos from the many side events CDKN sponsored at CoP17 on the subject of climate compatible development.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 4pm, December 15, 2011

Nations on course for a multilateral legal framework on climate mitigation

Tim Ash-Vie and Mairi Dupar of CDKN review the outcomes of CoP17 in Durban.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 3pm, December 15, 2011