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

Postcard from Delhi: the lessons of the IPCC SREX report for South Asia

CDKN’s Elizabeth Colebourn and Amy Kirbyshire report back from the New Delhi, India outreach event where diverse stakeholders discussed the IPCC’s SREX report.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 3pm, May 08, 2012

Climate change litigation – a rising tide?

CDKN’s Mairi Dupar reports on how individuals, communities and even whole nations are increasingly exploring climate change litigation.
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by: Mairi Dupar | on: 2pm, May 03, 2012

The difference we can make – the future we can have

In this guest post Roger-Mark De Souza, Vice President of Research and Director of the Climate Initiative at Population Action International, argues that population needs to be on the agenda for a future of climate compatible development, and outlines how this can be achieved.
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by: CDKN Global

Shaping the Durban platform: Latin America and the Caribbean in a future high ambition deal

This policy brief, produced by Energeia and supported by CDKN, discusses the outcomes and implications of CoP-17 for the Latin American region.
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by: CDKN Global

Also posted in Español

Vulnerable communities lead the way on adaptation

What advances in understanding should we glean from the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum in Vietnam? Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Climate Change Fellow at IIED, discusses the outcomes.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 9am, April 25, 2012

Latest from the SREX regional events

Read the latest on CDKN’s work communicating the results of the IPCC SREX reports to regional policy makers in developing countries, through a three part report series and 6 regional events in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.
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by: CDKN Global | on: 10am, April 23, 2012