Themes: Policy and practice

Themes: Policy and practice

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Project : Development of an implementation plan for a regional framework for achieving development resilient to climate change

18 CARICOM leaders endorsed the Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change in July

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24th May 2011
Renewable energy to save planet Earth? Syed Ayub Qutab, Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute for Environment & Development Action Research (PIEDAR), gives CDKN an analysis of the recent UNFCCC report on renewable energy. Find out what he has to say about the consequences of a large-scale shift to renewables.
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19th May 2011
is green growth just a fad? A review of the Green Growth Leaders report In a guest blog for CDKN, DFID's Hannah Ryder critiques the latest Green Growth Leaders report by the University of Berkeley. Read what she has to say about the growth opportunites of implementing energy and resource-efficiency policies, and what more the report could have said about developing countries.
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13th April 2011
A city (almost) without cars Global Manager Isabela da Souza talks about how an efficient public transport system is beneficia
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10th April 2011
An action plan for Kenya’s National Climate Change Response Strategy - Call for Expressions of Interest CDKN, together with DFID, AFD and other potential donor programmes, has been approached to support and co-fund the development of a Kenyan Action Plan on climate change. We now seek Expressions of Interest for potential suppliers to deliver this plan.
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12th March 2011
Postcard from Addis Ababa- When bull elephants fight In this latest in our 'Postcards' series, Geoff Barnard reports from the AfricaAdapt Symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He finds that Africa needs to find a way of blending sources of knowledge if it is to adapt successfully to a changing climate.
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9th March 2011
Postcard from Kuala Lumpur - Building resilience in a changing climate Development workers, policy-makers and researchers met in Kuala Lumpur at a CDKN-sponsored conference to explore how Asian societies are building resilience to climate-induced change.
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24th December 2010
Postcard from Cancun - an Asian view Pakistan's delegation proposed an alternative definition of climate vulnerability at CoP16 in Cancun, supported by CDKN's Asia team.
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23rd December 2010
POLICY BRIEF: Planning climate compatible development: lessons from experience National planning for climate compatible development in developing countries means balancing national needs with the requirements of international support frameworks for financing, technology transfer and capacity building.
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Project : Enriching journalistic coverage of climate and development

CDKN commissioned Inter Press Service (IPS) to produce a series of news articles on climate and development issues in the run up to COP-16 in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2010.

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3rd December 2010
Postcard from Cancun - Knowledge sharing, capacity building and advocacy for adaptation and climate compatible development A CoP16 side event on Thursday, 2nd December cast light on how knowledge about climate compatible development can be packaged to reach the development practitioners and communities who urgently need it.
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Completed
Project : Planning for climate compatible development in the Caribbean

CDKN is working with climate risk-management firm Acclimatise to help Caribbean governments come up with a regional Implementation Plan for coping with climate change.