Clarifying intent: Key principles for preparing INDCs Ali Cambray, Kiran Sura and Pippa Heylings of CDKN assess some of the key requirements for Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which are to be debated at the UNFCCC's COP20 in Lima next month.

WORKING PAPER: Close to home: Subnational strategies for climate compatible development A Working Paper by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability by Barbara Anton, Ali Cambray, Mairi Dupar and Astrid Westerlind-Wigstroem with Elizabeth Gogoi analyses effective strategies for subnational development, based on the partners' experiences.

Devolution or revolution? How do governments create the conditions for cities to take action on climate change? The battle for climate compatible development will be won or lost in cities, argues Alison Cambray, after spending time with 400 leaders of African municipalities at the Local Climate Solutions for Africa Congress in Dar es Salaam.

Close to home, learning from subnational initiatives for climate compatible development Mairi Dupar and Ali Cambray report on a CDKN-ICLEI programme to learn about climate compatible development at city and subnational level.

When you get flooded, you don’t call the president, you call your mayor Ali Cambray, CDKN’s Head of Country Support, and Sub-national and Urban Lead, finds rich discussions at the Resilient Cities 2013 Congress, held in Bonn this weekend

WORKING PAPER: Drivers and challenges for climate compatible development This working paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these.

In conversation... with Alison Cambray, CDKN Head of Technical Assistance Transcript