Energy is essential for development, but given the urgent need to mitigate climate change, developing nations are under pressure to keep their carbon emissions low. This leaves them with three options: abandon development; ignore climate concerns; or t…
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Energy-Water-Climate Planning for Development Without Carbon in Latin America and the Caribbean
Climate and Development Outlook: Edition one, November 2012
This inaugural edition of CDKN Outlook demonstrates our work supporting developing country governments across three continents, from building climate resilience through lesson sharing in Africa, to innovative city-level climate action in Quito.
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Postcard from Geneva: ‘The Green Economy and Sustainable Development – Bringing Back the Social Dimension’
Tristan Stubbs reports from a major international conference hosted by UNRISD last week. Presenters talked about the need to acknowledge the social costs of climate change in the transition to a green economy.
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Agricultural Technology for development
The return of high food prices and the need to adapt to climate change have revived interest in agricultural technologies adapted to smallholders, in particular women. Sustainable intensification of smallholder pro…
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How will Quito weather a changing climate?
When CDKN Chief Executive Sam Bickersteth visited Ecuador at the end of July, the Municipality of Quito gave him a tour of the projects and natural systems that provide the city with resilience in the face of a changing climate.
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