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capacity and Southern leadership to improve the
well-being of the most
climate-affected people
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We work with the public, private and non-governmental sectors in support of locally-owned and -led climate-resilient action.
This English language site features projects in the 70+ countries where we’ve worked, and resources and blogs from those and more.
Resource
3rd February 2023
From low-carbon consumers to climate leaders This report for the Gender Equality in a Low-Carbon World (GLOW) programme reviews the evidence on women's economic empowerment in low-carbon transitions. It identifies the gaps in the evidence base; and recommends how GLOW and other research initiatives and funders may further enrich the evidence, and inform policy and practice.
News
31st January 2023
#Art4Resilience: Announcing the Knowledge into Use award winners In the lead-up to the COP27 Resilience Hub, the Resilience Knowledge Coalition launched the “Knowledge into Use” awards to highlight innovative and creative ways of facilitating the use of resilience knowledge. 48 Individuals, groups and grassroots organisations submitted ideas in the form of games, cartoons, paintings, drawings, murals, theatre, short films, exhibits of local and indigenous knowledge and more.
News
23rd January 2023
COP27 Resilience Hub report out now The COP27 Resilience Hub report provides a run down of the key resilience and adaptation outcomes from COP27 and the main messages and policy takeaways from the Resilience Hub. It has been developed from inputs from more than 70 Resilience Hub sessions, the four Regional Resilience Hubs that took place in the lead up to COP27, as well as over 15,000 people across the world who participated in-person and online.
News
11th January 2023
Young climate actors building resilient communities around the world In the lead up to the COP27 Resilience Hub, the Resilience Knowledge Coalition launched a social media contest to highlight youth action from the local, national and global level. Young people from 43 countries shared videos, photos and paintings showcasing their resilience solutions.
News
2nd December 2022
Adaptation Futures 2023 The call for session proposals, abstracts and posters is now open for Adaptation Futures 2023, to be held in Montreal and virtually in October 2023. AF2023 also seeks to establish one or two regional hubs during the conference as a complement and alternative to attending the conference in person in Montreal.
News
30th November 2022
Opportunity: open call launched by Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, recently opened its call for ideas for the 2023 cycle. This call focuses on adaptation and gender-responsive climate finance, as well as ideas from Brazil, India, and Southern or East Africa.
Feature
28th November 2022
COP27 creates new spaces for young people Zizipho Royi of CDKN reports on the increasingly loud voices of young people in the climate change negotiations, including during their own dedicated Youth and Future Generations Day.
Feature
22nd November 2022
COP27 offers mixed news for social inclusion in climate policy There was a mix of progress and backsliding on diversity and inclusion in climate policy-making, at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. CDKN's Mairi Dupar unpacks recent developments.
Feature
21st November 2022
COP27 changes climate finance architecture with loss and damage decision, urges MDBs to transform Mairi Dupar and Lisa McNamara of CDKN assess how the COP27 decision and associated policy developments have the potential to reshape climate finance in 2023-24.

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Land toolkit

Read the regional highlights and learn more about the IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Ocean toolkit

Read the regional highlights and learn more about the IPCC's Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere

Voices from the Frontline

How local communities are pursuing SDGs in the pandemic era and how to support them

Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World

Exploring innovations for women’s economic empowerment and climate action