Finance for Resilience: Building climate resilience through microfinance The first episode of CDKN's new podcast series explores the role of microfinance in building resilience at the community level.

Keta, Ghana: Agribusiness offers women and youth greater food security during pandemic In Keta, a rural community of Ghana, a semi-pro basketball player is promoting agribusiness among women and youth to enhance food security during the  pandemic. Misper Apawu reports. This is the twenty-eighth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.

Nature for recovery and resilience Alex McNamara, Water Lead of National Business Initiative (NBI), South Africa says that valui

Inside Story: Rural Ethiopian women diversify livelihoods and boost entire communities’ climate resilience The Market Approaches to Resilience (MAR) project extended credit and savings facilities to communities in remote rural areas of Ethiopia, providing them with the means to diversify their assets and livelihoods. This helped to buffer them from climate-related stresses and shocks. This 'Inside Story' case study tells the story of what happened.

Guide: Green Climate Fund (GCF) Proposal Toolkit 2020 CDKN and Acclimatise has released released this guide to provide the most recent guidance and help to navigate the ever-changing GCF project requirements.

Unlocking private finance in Peru's waste sector The Mobilising Investment for NDC Implementation programme has been working with countries around the world to unlock finance for the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). The project in Peru is capitalising on a key opportunity to mobilise private finance in the waste sector. Yasomie Ranasinghe from PwC UK reports.

Key messages of the Global NDC Conference 2019 The organisers of the Global NDC Conference 2019 summarised the three days of rich discussions among 350 delegates from 80 countries into the following key messages, issued on 17 June 2019.

Financing NDCs - Business as a key partner The second day of the Global NDC Conference drew attention to the importance of private sector business and finance as key partners in the delivery of the NDCs. CDKN's Sam Bickersteth reports.

Implementing NDCs - How the private sector is engaging Private finance is critical to meeting the ambitions of the NDCs. Intermediary organisations such as research institutions and NGOs are supporting coalitions of private businesses to get involved. Also, coalitions of businesses are pooling their demands for climate-friendly finance, technology and policy change - reports Sam Bickersteth of CDKN.

Cities Footprint Project is voted one of five ‘best urban initiatives worldwide’ The ‘Cities Footprint’ project, designed and co-financed by the Latin American Development Bank (CAF), CDKN, the Agence Française de Développement and Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano has been named one of the world's most promising initiatives for urban sustainability and for best practice in linking local to global agendas.

WORKING PAPER: UK trade policy and climate change - maximising commercial, climate and development outcomes This working paper assesses the challenges and opportunities between UK trade policy and climate commitments.